Morgana O'Reilly plays Naomi Canning
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
A teleportation device so I can be in New Zealand with my family as well as working here through the year
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
Going to India!
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
Amongst the grand kids, we play 'Bad Santa'. It's kind of like Secret Santa but you can steal gifts off each other. It's a great spectator sport for the others to watch, and a fun take on the present madness.
What is your New Years resolution?
Keep learning Spanish and dance more.
Tim Phillipps plays Daniel Robinson
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
My headphones only work through one ear so I think that a new pair might make it onto this year's list!
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
Returning home to Adelaide and spending it with my girlfriend and my family.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
A Christmas tree has to go up in the living room and a nice big lunch on the 25th. And FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY!
What is your New Years resolution?
Every year I attempt to be more organized and every year I need to add it back to the resolution list.
Colette Mann plays Sheila Canning
What is the best gift you've ever given someone for Christmas?
I gave my ex-husband a beautiful baby boy called Sam a few days before Christmas 27 years ago!
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
A Christmas themed and patterned dinner set, to be used every Christmas. And I do... I love traditions.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
Corny I know, but my sons, my friends and my fab workmates at Neighbours.
What's your take on re-gifting?
Keep a log book and enter the gift details: who gave it and when. Saves embarrassment!
What do you leave out for Santa in your house?
Biscuits and milk- usually Tim Tams and two carrots. My boys are 27 and 24 now so do you think they have caught on?
What do you want for Christmas this year?
A rest!
Kip Gamblin plays Brad Willis
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
Definitely a surf board. All my kids have been given boards, one son has had about eight so it's time Dad got one - you listening kids?
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
My wife's father is getting married after 40 years with his partner so we are going up North for that as well as having Christmas with my family in Sydney which includes parents, sisters and their kids. Then we are going down the South Coast (of NSW) to a beautiful little place called Dalmeny where we will be for three weeks.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
There is always a fight, always one drama and one sister that causes it but we won't go into that - haha. My mum's amazing Christmas pudding which is just delightful and we don't open the presents early, and the youngest person gets to hand them out.
What is your New Years resolution?
Still working on it!
What is the best gift you've ever given someone for Christmas?
When I was working in England my parents came over to see me and I shouted them a trip to Venice. They were thrilled and I know they would never had gone if I hadn't arranged it. I like giving experiences.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
For my 30th Birthday my beautiful wife organized a surprise party. We were down the south coast (of NSW) on holiday so when the first guests turned up, I didn't twig and then more friends arrived and finally the penny dropped. It was just wonderful and I would really like to repay my wife for doing that.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
My marriage. We have been together now for nearly 16 years and like all relationships, you have your ups and downs but we've toughed it out and we are in a great place.
Calen Mackenzie plays Bailey Turner
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
Well as I'm seriously into video games and I really would like a Wii U console Nintendo - now that would be ultimate.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
We are really into a big seafood lunch.
What is your New Years resolution?
To be a bit more rad!
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
My Nintendo 64 in 1999 - my first video game when I was four.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
Updated Nintendos.
What do you leave out for Santa in your house?
To be honest I never really believed in Santa and it was my parents who persisted with the whole Santa thing. So I finally cottoned on that a could receive some pretty good things from "Santa".
Ariel Kaplan plays Imogen Willis
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
I'm Jewish so we don't celebrate Christmas, however as my boyfriend and my sister's boyfriends aren't Jewish, we do a scaled down version we call Christmakah where we exchange gifts.
What are you doing over the holiday break?
I'm going to Byron Bay for a week with Harley and some other friends including catching up with Taylor Glockner who was on the show. Eating yummy food and going for runs to the lighthouse, and the rest of the time when we are back in Melbourne some trips to Daylesford and Mornington Penisula.
What is your New Years resolution?
Last year's resolution was to become a health coach and did my course, and in three weeks I'll become a certified Health Coach. This year I want to back it up by becoming a Personal Trainer. And in general be as happy as possible and keep good relationships.
What is the best gift you've ever given someone?
This isn't the best gift but probably the best story. When I was seven I got my first professional job and I had absolutely no concept of being paid or money in fact. My sister had a debutante ball coming up and saw this $500 dress that she just loved but didn't have the money so I bought it for her.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
My dog.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
Definitely family. I still live at home so I am constantly surrounded by them and while sometimes they drive me insane, when I'm away from them, I realize very quickly how much I need them.
Kate Kendall plays Lauren Turner
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
Definitely not to make Christmas so hectic rushing around buying gifts and the best hams and what not, take it a little easier.
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
Christmas and New Year in Melbourne and then after that, heading down to the beach where we are renting a house so all the kids can come down. Just really relax.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
Of course the Christmas tree and we do the pillow case at the end of the bed for my son Darcy. And one of use will be madly putting up the basketball hoop in the middle of the night so it's ready to go when Darcy wakes up.
What is your New Years resolution?
Do more pilates.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
Well when I was a little girl I was infatuated with horses but we couldn't have a horse, so my dad bought me the saddle, bridle, hat and jodphurs - the whole outfit. I thought it was bliss and rode around on my dad's back.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
Family and spending time together.
What do you leave out for Santa in your house?
A beer for father Christmas and some chocolate.
Jenna Rosenow plays Amber Turner
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
To be honest, I'm really not into receiving presents, I never know what I want so whatever is given to me is surprise.
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
Chris (Milligan) and I are going to Bali before Christmas and spending Christmas with my family in Geelong.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
Nothing out of the ordinary, it's really just about family getting together. Although we still all receive a present from Santa.
What is your New Years resolution?
To build on what I achieved this year, keep improving myself.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
I think all gifts are memorable if there is thought behind it.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
I gave Chris a dog and she just keeps on giving.
Chris Milligan plays Kyle Canning
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
I bought my own Christmas present this year, a ticket to the Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne. It's actually my first Christmas away from my immediate family who are in Queensland in 26 years.
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
Going to Bali before Christmas with Jenna (Rosenow) and then Christmas with Jenna's family in Geelong - she did Christmas with my family last year so it's my turn.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
Because my mother's family are German we always have Christmas Eve dinner and then on Christmas day go to my father's family who are Scottish so it's a lot of eating and drinking for about 24 hours straight.
What is your New Years resolution?
The usual - get fit.
What is the best gift you've ever given someone for Christmas?
I gave my brother a ticket to Hawaii next year so he could join my parents, sister, Jenna and I so it was a really nice family get away.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
Tiny, my dog.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
Giving a present and not expecting to receive one back.
Jackie Woodburne plays Susan Kennedy
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
A lovely warm summer, gorgeous beach weather and catch up with family and friends which you don't see a great deal throughout the year.
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
We have a lot of family in the country so we'll head out of town for Christmas and the rest of time will be spent relaxing at hom.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
We put up tree and we always what Mircale on 34th Street on Christmas Eve - and the Australian tradition of having a roast on a blistering hot day and eating way to much, and then at 4.00pm saying I feel sick and then asking someone to pass the nuts.
What is your New Years resolution?
I don't make resolutions anymore because come Jan 3 I've usually disappointed myself.
What is the best gift you've ever given someone for Christmas?
When my nieces and nephews were little because there is nothing like the excitement of little children when they open up a gift to find a Ninja Turtle.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
When I was about seven my brothers and father made me a three-wheeler bike from bits they had found at the local tip and every wheel was different. But I thought I riding a chariot, I loved it.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
The gifts that are spontaneous, given from the heart.
Scott McGregor plays Mark Brennan
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
To play a lot of golf.
What are you doing over the Christmas/New Years break?
Christmas will be in Melbourne with my family which is becoming bigger every year with new nieces and nephews joining us. In the New Year I'll head up to Yarrawonga to relax and catch up with friends.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
There is one person who is designated Santa for the day and dresses up in the red costume to hand out presents to the kids.
What is your New Years resolution?
To get fit.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
Definitely family.
Olympia Valance plays Paige Smith
What is on your Christmas wish list this year?
Furniture! I've just moved into a new place and there is a lot of space to fill.
Do you have any Christmas traditions?
We are doing a huge family gathering with over a 100 people and my mother has sent everyone an email about what they have to bring - for me it's a fruit platter.
What is the best gift you've ever given someone for Christmas?
A holiday which was very special.
What is the most memorable gift you've ever received?
I organized for my young brother, sister and myself to do a photo session in a park and had a montage of photos for mum and she loved it, and it still hangs.
What is the gift that keeps on giving?
You get more out of giving than receiving.
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