Tony Holden (fictional character)

Tony Holden is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away, portrayed by Jon Sivewright. He is currently engaged to Rachel Armstrong and they are waiting on the arrival of their baby as Rachel is pregnant with Tony's baby.

Arrival
Tony arrived in Summer Bay in 2005, in episode 4020, with his sons, police officer Jack and teenager Lucas, moving in next door to the Hunter family. With Jack, he is the joint second longest-serving current male character and the joint sixth current character overall. He began a relationship with Beth Hunter (his wife, Kate, died as the result of a road accident 17 years previously) and the Holdens eventually moved in with her and her children.

A new job
Tony was the Physical Education teacher at Summer Bay High, until, due to staff cutbacks, Brad Armstrong (Chris Sadrinna) had to let him go. But he wasn't out of a job for long, with a position opening up at the Gym, when Kim Hyde (Chris Hemsworth) was accused of sexual assault.

New love interests
During 2007 Beth died in a car crash, but Tony has to some extent moved on, and slept with Naomi, who had previously slept with Lucas at a writers' camp. Lucas was still keen on Naomi, even though she had become his teacher at Summer Bay High School and he and Tony had a falling out over the situation. Afterwards Tony had a fling with Jazz Curtis, Drew's mother, but it ended when she left town.

Rachel Armstrong
He has now been dating Doctor Rachel Armstrong from early 2008. Tony proposed to Rachel and she happily accepted. Tony ended up having to have a vasectomy reversal operation so they could have children.

The Baby
Tony is about to become a father for the third time as Rachel is pregnant with his child. she has a baby son.

Dealing with the loss of his son, Jack
Tonys son Jack was shot dead. He has since had to come to terms with loosing his eldest son. He hasnt coped with this very well and pushed everyone away from him, especially his pregnant fiancee, Rachel. But he has decided to put all that to one side for a moment and proposed to Rachel again. :)

Marriage
Tony will marry Rachel in April, and are set to create a family together, with the little unborn child about 4 months from the due date.