Sarah O'Neale[1] (also Thompson) is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Laura Vasquez.

Mary Fletcher from Woman's Own wrote that Home and Away producers were infuriated by the reports because they felt it discredited the show's image.

[4] But a writer from TV Week claimed that Vasquez discovered that Sarah was being written out after they published the story in their magazine.

They added that when Sarah arrives to study at Summer Bay High but her father Matthew (Jeff Truman) does not want her to stay.

reported that Angel Brooks (Melissa George) would give Sarah a make-over transforming her from "square to sex goddess".

Sarah's new attire included little shorts, Vasquez told Anthony that her character's style was still "daggy" because she is a "country girl" and "just so conservative compared to Angel".

[2] In the Home and Away – Official Collector’s Edition a writer said that Tug was "absolutely furious" when he learned that his "archenemy" Shane Parrish (Dieter Brummer), planned to kiss Sarah.

[10] While Vasquez and Bancks had formed a friendship due to their characters' romance, journalists became convinced that the actors were in a relationship.

Bancks told Mary Fletcher from Woman's Own that as they were "spending eight hours a day as teenage sweethearts" made them contemplate a relationship, but they decided against it.

[10] Bancks told Anthony that it was a "nightmare situation" and found the experience of kissing Vasquez in front of "seven hundred thousand people" really "strange".

Vasquez explained that Sarah changes her mind because "Tug's problem is that he's unsure of himself because he hasn't had a good upbringing.

[13] Sarah arrives at Summer Bay High to enroll in Year 11 as the school near her father Matthew's farm has closed down.

She talks to Donald Fisher (Norman Coburn) and Luke Cunningham (John Adam) but Matthew forces her to return home.

After Luke argues the case for Sarah attending school, She begins staying with Donald's daughter, Bobby Marshall (Nicolle Dickson) and her husband Greg (Ross Newton).

She is later fostered by Ailsa and her husband Alf (Ray Meagher) and befriends Roxanne Miller (Lisa Lackey) one of her teachers, who becomes a big sister figure to her.

On opening night, Shane overdoes a kissing scene with Sarah, resulting in Tug punching him and ruining the show.

Damian and Tug try to warn Sarah but she will not listen and is convinced Nathan has changed and begins seeing him in secret when Alf and Ailsa disapprove.

Following the Year 12 formal, Matthew suffers a heart attack and Sarah persuades the Stewarts to let him stay with them while he recovers.

In 2002, Alf mentions to a newly paroled Nathan (now played by Craig Ball) that Tug and Sarah have since married and are expecting their second child.