When Angel returns, they throw an engagement party, and Prince calls her a hoe, and then reveals he kissed Dawn.
Remus Rolleston Zara Chakraborty, played by Nivi Summer, made her first screen appearance on 10 April 2019.
After Simon was fired due to his alcoholism almost killed Rani, she managed a hostile takeover of Jav's pharmaceutical company by blackmailing him, thus becoming a board member of Shortland Street as a stakeholder and supply partner.
After breaking up with Chris, Zara and doctor Boyd Rolleston (now Chakraborty) admit they have feelings for each other, but do not really have any chemistry and agree to stay friends.
In July 2019 she dated nurse Nicole Miller for just under a month, however she broke up with her after her ex-husband Javs return, who was being threatening towards Zara.
In December, Zara tried to get Boyd's niece, Shereez Baker, to leave Tim Myers, but is met with his racist remarks.
[1] By the time Shereez finally leaves him, Tim sets a bomb in the hospital and a stolen ambulance, taking Zara and Boyd hostage.
Zara ends up proposing to Boyd after previously stating she didn't want to get married, and they have their wedding in August 2020.
After her and Boyd decide to buy a vineyard and move down south, she receives a text from a woman asking for her help.
Cece, Dawn and Shareez lie to Detective Rashid Namal that Sophia burnt Pete by accident.
Following a shooting at the hospital, TK is left severely injured and required long term rehabilitation.
Cece makes a few cameo appearances in December to be a bridesmaid for Madonna and attend Chris Warner’s New Years Eve boat party.
Ben arrived with wife Cece (Nicole Whippy), son Louis (Henry Rolleston) and daughter Sophia (Iana Grace) when it became apparent his mother Jean (Catherine Wilkin) was entering a stage of severe Alzheimer's.
Ben and Cece soon had to reveal that Louis was a twin, with his brother having been murdered by his biological mother Vanessa (Danielle Mason).
Vanessa returned and turned Louis against his family, though he soon forgave them but was seriously injured whilst surfing and confined to a wheel chair.
Later in the year Ben was concerned when Sophia fell for co-worker Kate's (Laurel Devenue) son Blue Nathan (Tash Keddy).
After a DNA test it was revealed Blue was in fact Ben's son after a one-night stand in the nineties.
Ben became paranoid when he realised Cece shared a kiss with his boss TK Samuels (Benjamin Mitchell) and was devastated when his family was held hostage and Sophia killed a man in apparent self defence.
After a heart-to-heart with Sophia, Ben drunkenly fell asleep with the oven on and set the house alight.
His birth mother Vanessa shows up and blames Cece for her attempted suicide and the death of Louis' twin brother.
In December, he saved Shereez from Tim Myers' final abuse by temporarily putting him under arrest, while trying to foil River from a misogynistic internet group chat and initiating a second bomb planted in the hospital.
In 2021, Louis' friend Theodora Chang is having problems getting over Nicole's wife, Maeve, so he decides to have sex with her, and they start a relationship.
Unfortunately while Angel was away in Thailand, sorting out problems with her Mum, Prince ended up kissing Dawn after she had a total meltdown when she was watching Ali's daughter, Lulu for the day but the little girl had wandered off somewhere in the hospital grounds.
William Miller (step father) Howard Black (ex stepfather) Wilder Mullens Eddie Adams, played by Rawiri Jobe made his first screen appearance on 24 May 2019.
Eddie made a brief cameo in July 2024, appearing on an iPad to say goodbye to Leanne who was dying from bowel cancer.
When Boyd loses an opportunity to go to Japan for a month to do some medicinal business, she flirts with the winner and gets in trouble.
Sam Collins , played by Jared Turner, made his first screen appearance in August 2019. after Kylie Brown has a breakdown after killing her husband Dylan Reinhart.
Later, in November, he returns after a car crash and Dawn asks him if he knows how to treat sex addicts, because she believes she is one.
Shereez Baker is upset with her relationship with controlling, abusive Tim Myers, and asks Sam for advice.
Tess tried to use Phoenix's money to fund a new drug for her mother's bowel cancer treatment, so long as she leaves Richard for good, but she developed an allergic reaction, so she had to go for surgery.