Esther Anderson to spend more time with family in Australia after travel restrictions are lifted

Former Home and Away star Esther Anderson calls Los Angeles home. 

And with COVID-19 halting international travel, the 40-year-old actress revealed this week that she hopes to spend more time back in her native Australia once the ban is lifted.

She told The Morning Show on Wednesday: ‘It’s made us realise just how important family is and what’s at stake.’  

‘I’ll definitely be cherishing my time spent in Australia and try and spend more time at home after all of this is over,’ she said.

The brunette beauty also revealed that she was unable to travel back home to celebrate her father’s 95th birthday

‘I was so upset. But everyone is well that’s the main thing,’ she added. 

Last month, Esther penned a heartfelt tribute to celebrate her father’s milestone birthday.

She shared a photo of herself with her father, Jack, and her two-year-old son Forest, and wrote: ‘Happy 95th birthday to the most incredible father. I love you dad!’

‘Sorry we had to cancel your party and that I can’t be with you in Oz today. We will make up for it next time and party twice as hard so start polishing your dancing shoes,’ she added.

The brunette beauty is best known for playing Charlie Buckton on Home and Away from 2008 to 2012, before trying her luck in Los Angeles that same year.

She met her husband Howard in the US in 2014. The pair married in 2017 in her hometown of Geelong in Victoria, but are based in Los Angeles.

Esther and Howard welcomed son Forest in August 2018.