While theyโre known to catch up quite often, seeing Home And Away royalty Kate Ritchie and Ray Meagher together on TV is the rarest treasure.
And so when the former colleagues took to the Logies stage to present the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter, there was barely a dry eye in the house!

โItโs always so lovely to see Ray,โ Kate, 46, tells TV WEEK. โWe were just saying how we have to make time to catch up properly,โ with Ray adding that they โalways try to do it at least once a yearโ but havenโt in a while asโจtheir schedules have been โa little crazy latelyโ.
โYou did come to the 80th that Channel Seven threw me, though,โ he says. โIt was so nice of you to come to a silly old buggerโs birthday party too, given how you were filming 18 things at once.โ
Ray, who plays Summer Bay veteran Alf Stewart, first met Kate, who played Sally Fletcher, as a shy nine-year-old in the dramaโs pilot episode in 1988. He says heโs been so proud to watch his friendโs career flourish since she left the show in 2008, and thought she was โfantasticโ in โจthe Logie-nominated 2023 crime drama The Claremont Murders.

โIf there ever was a natural, sheโs standing right here,โ he says. โKate just picks up the script and it happens. It drives me nuts โ it shouldnโt be that easy! Iโd welcome her back [to Home And Away] with open arms tomorrow.โ
And it seems as if fans would also love her to come back, with rumours of a return swirling almost every week.
โThey didnโt kill me off, so they [the showโs producers] have left the door open,โ Kate says. โBut itโs not happening anytime soon.โ