Kate Ritchie’s radio co-star fuels rumours she’s returning to her soap roots: ‘I know you’re going back to Home & Away’

Kate Ritchie’s co-stars teased some huge news that the star has reportedly been keeping secret from her fans for some time.

Kate Ritchie left the set of Home and Away for the final time back in 2008, but now it seems like she could be gearing up to make a surprise return.

After she left the show and her character Sally Fletcher behind, Ritchie’s career has gone from strength to strength, and she’s now co-host on one of Sydney’s most popular radio shows, Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie.

Kate Ritchie (right) could be set to return to Home & Away as her beloved character Sally Fletcher. Picture: Supplied.

In recent weeks, rumours have been swirling about Ritchie’s long-awaited comeback to the Aussie soap, and now one of her radio co-stars appears to have confirmed it.

Wippa teased listeners, telling Ritchie: “I know you’re going back to the bay. I’ve seen your emails as I sit next to you in the office.”

“No you don’t, you have bad eyes,” she jokingly responded, as Wippa continued to push the star for a proper answer.

“I know that you are set to make a bit of a comeback on Home and Away,” he insisted.

Ritchie has previously shared that she would happily return to the show under the right circumstances.

She told TV Week back in 2014: “If it was to happen it would have to be a great story – or the 100 year anniversary of the surf club! It’s never been on the agenda, but Sally is only an airfare away – who knows what the future holds?”

It comes after Home & Away icon Ray Meagher shared his love for the soap that made his name, but remarked that he feels the show has become unrecognisable from its original premise.

Ritchie has enjoyed a hugely successful career outside of the Aussie soap. Picture: Tim Hunter.

He criticised network execs for letting the soap stray from its original concept of a seaside community and its original Fletcher family taking in foster children.

Ray’s remarks refer to the popular River Boys storyline which was first launched in 2011. It featured a trio of tough male characters, played by Lincoln Younes, Steve Peacocke and Dan Ewing, who brought trouble to Summer Bay.

Since then, the show has focused on more hard-hitting, crime-based story lines.

“There is still penchant for a River Boy,” he told TV Tonight of the show’s recent history of bringing bad boys onto the show to stir up drama.

“I mean, that was just a great period. But was it Summer Bay? Hmmm …. in my humble opinion, not to that extent.”

He added that while there’s nothing wrong with a little “sex, drugs and rock and roll”, he insisted that it “came in too big of a dose” and transformed the show into something beyond what it was meant to be.

Originally published as Kate Ritchie’s radio co-star fuels rumours she’s returning to her soap roots: ‘I know you’re going back to Home & Away’