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Wild At Heart
Wild at Heart is a current ITV television drama series about a Bristol-based vet and his family emigrating to start a game park in South Africa. The show premiered in January 2006 and is currently in its seventh series. It stars Stephen Tompkinson, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Olivia Scott-Taylor, Hayley Mills, Deon Stewardson, Nomsa Xaba, Thapelo Mokoena, Atandwa Kani, Tarryn Faye Brummage, Robert Bathurst and Jill Halfpenny, and is shot on location at Glen Afric reserve in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Dawn Steele who regularly stars as Alice Trevanion, in on maternity leave and only appears in episode one of the current seventh series. The show airs as a simulcast from the ITV Network on TV3 Ireland.[1] Series 1-5 of 'Wild at Heart' have been released on DVD, each released around the time the following series is airing on TV. Series 6 is due to be released on DVD on 6 February 2012.

[2] After the success of the American pilot, renamed Life Is Wild, the series was picked up by The CW TV network in the USA; however the show was cancelled in February 2008 due to low ratings. Life Is Wild has been picked up by the Hallmark TV channels in UK & South Africa.

Contents [hide] 1 Cast and characters 2 Past characters 3 Guest Characters 4 Ratings 5 Storylines/synopsis 5.1 Series 1 (2006) 5.2 Series 2 (2007) 5.3 Series 3 (2008) 5.4 Series 4 (2009) 5.5 Series 5 (2010) 5.6 Series 6 (2011) 5.7 Series 7 (2012) 6 Soundtrack release 7 Offscreen 8 DVD release 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

Cast and characters

Actor Character Previous actor Duration Notes

Stephen Tompkinson Danny Trevanion

2006—

Deon Stewardson Anders Du Plessis

2006—

Nomsa Xaba Nomsa Nguni

2006—

Olivia Scott-Taylor Olivia Adams Trevanion (Liv) Rafaella Hutchinson 2006–08, 2010—

Lucy-Jo Hudson Rosie Trevanion Gifthold

2006–09, 2012—

Thapelo Mokoena Cedric Fatani

2007—

Hayley Mills Caroline Du Plessis

2007—

Abigail Kubeka Cebile Fatani

2007— Recurring character

Dawn Steele Alice Trevanion

2009— On Maternity Leave

Tarryn Faye Brummage Charlotte Collins Trevanion Megan Martell 2009—

Atandwa Kani Thabo

2010— (Also starred in Life is Wild)

Robert Bathurst Ed Lynch

2012—

Jill Halfpenny Fiona Lynch

2012—

Past characters

Actor Character Duration Notes

David Butler Christian Peeters 2011–12 (Also starred in Life is Wild)

Niama McLean Buhle 2010–11

Kagiso Legoadi Cashile 2010–11

Sithokomele Majola Junior Fatani 2011

Bovril Jana the Cheetah 2006–11

Mary Anne Barlow Vanessa 2009–11

Hamley Hamley the Giraffe 2006–11

Cal MacAninch Rowan Collins 2009–10

Fana Mokoena Mr Ekotto 2007–10 Recurring Character

Luke Ward-Wilkinson Evan Adams/Trevanion 2006–09

Juliet Mills Georgina Black 2009

Shana Burton Grace 2009

Martinus Van Der Berg Max Gifthold 2007–09

Wayne Van Rooyen Kirk Du Plessis 2007–09

Kim Cloete Neema Du Plessis 2008–09

Unknown actor/actress Amber Du Plessis 2009

Amanda Holden Sarah Trevanion 2006–08

Mbongeni Nhlapo Regal 2006–08

Jessie Wallace Amy Kriel 2008

Craig Gardner Elliot Kriel 2008

Busi Lurayi Thandi Nguni 2007–08

Gary Lawson Alex Tate 2006–07

Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe Themba Khumalo 2006

Guest Characters

Actor Character Duration Notes

Dominika Jablonska Beth 2012

Bryan Van Niekerk Jonas Rittman 2011

Warren Clarke Robert Trevanion 2011

Camilla Waldman Hannah 2010

Nicholas Le Prevost Gene 2010

Susie Blake Judith 2008

Maggie O'Neill Elaine 2008

Samantha Womack Tessa 2007

Geoffrey Hutchings Bill 2007

Vincent Regan Simon Adams 2006, 2007

Ratings

Series Episodes Aired Average Viewers (million)

1 6 29 January 2006 - 5 March 2006 9.67

2 10 14 January 2007 - 25 March 2007 7.94

3 8 13 January 2008 - 9 March 2008 8.16

4 10 11 January 2009 - 15 March 2009 7.99

5 10 10 January 2010 - 14 March 2010 7.71

6 10 9 January 2011 - 13 March 2011 8.09

7 10 8 January 2012 - 11 March 2012 7.85 As of Episode 3

All ratings have been retrieved from www.barb.co.uk and include ITV1 HD & ITV1 +1 for series 6 onwards. Storylines/synopsis Series 1 (2006) Wild at Heart begins with the Trevanion family going about their lives in Bristol. Everything changes drastically when an abandoned monkey is brought into Danny's surgery. His wife Sarah suggests they go to Africa to rehabilitate the monkey in hopes that a holiday will bring the troop closer together. The business trip becomes a permanent adventure and throughout the series we see the Trevanions settle into life in the bush and work to start up a game park. They're faced with plenty of challenges along the way including lethal snake bites, a deadly strain of anthrax, darting lionesses, missing children, uninvited guests, and a rival game park whose manager causes plenty of trouble when he can. Series 2 (2007) The second series is even more eventful than the first. The Trevanions struggle with finances whilst trying to satisfy their first proper guests with luxury accommodations and game drives. They face a new owner of Mara, the neighbouring game park, after the original one is killed whilst illegally hunting. The new owner seems even more intent on causing mayhem as he takes water from Leopard's Den's watering hole and more. This series introduces more characters and more complications that are thrown at the Trevanions, including a bitter inspector who nearly shuts them down, the arrival of Sarah's difficult mother Caroline, plane crashes, releasing vultures, family revelations, marriage proposals, and worst of all, to nearly end the family's time in Africa, a fatal lion attack. Series 3 (2008) The series focuses on opening an animal hospital, which in the penultimate episode is nearly achieved when a fire strikes the luxury guest lodge. Series 3 features a new American owner of Mara who at first appears friendly enough, but following a betrayal, turns nasty. Sarah goes back to her teaching roots when the local school is missing a teacher, tiger cubs go missing, Du Plessis goes out of his way to find love, Caroline's sister Judith visits, and Rosie and Max get engaged. The penultimate and final episodes of the series feature tragedy when the fire ruins the wedding day and the family is left grieving the loss of Sarah as she dies whilst trying to save Jana the cheetah. The series also features former EastEnders star Jessie Wallace as Amy Kriel, the dimwitted, self-absorbed wife of Mara's American owner, Elliot Kriel. Series 4 (2009) The series begins 12 months after the fire and features Danny battling for custody of Evan, yet losing. However, Evan finally is allowed to return to the game reserve. Meanwhile Caroline has returned to England, so her sister Georgina comes to stay, yet fails to make friends with Du Plessis, revealing to him that Caroline does not love him anymore and will not be returning to Africa. A new vet, Alice Collins, joins Leopards Den. She and Danny get off at a bad start, but in the end Danny asks Alice to stay at Leopards Den. Rosie marries Max but suffers a miscarriage; then leaves with Max to study veterinary medicine in Cape Town. After a few episodes, and Alice nearly leaving, it becomes clear that she has feelings for Danny, about which she confides to Du Plessis. In the penultimate episode, a storm hits Leopard's Den and Alice seeks help for an injured Danny whilst the others try to find her daughter Charlotte among the rubble of the old hut. Alice finds help, and is taken to Mara. She manages to tell the owner, Vanessa, that Danny is still out in the storm, bleeding and unconscious. There is much confusion while searching for Danny, but he is eventually found. Afterward, Vanessa, the owner of Mara, tells Alice that she and Danny are an item, which is untrue. She says this because she knows Alice has feelings for Danny, too. Alice gets back to Leopards Den and packs her bags, planning to leave. Danny tells Vanessa that he does not return her feelings. When Danny finds Alice's suitcase, he goes after Alice, who is releasing a giraffe prior to her departure. Danny and Alice finally admit their love for each other in a passionate embrace. They tell no one, although everyone learns the truth. Alice and Danny's relationship is branded, "The worst kept secret in Africa!" Caroline returns in the final moments of the series 4 finale. Series 5 (2010) The fifth series begins with Du Plessis and Caroline's wedding, but someone from Caroline's past is set to ruin it before their marriage even starts. Elsewhere, Alice's brother Rowan moves in to Mara, while Alice tries to repair their sibling relationship. Evan has moved to England to live with his sister and Dad. Vanessa has got over her feelings for Danny and they remain friends, and starts a relationship with Rowan which ends after he gives a black leopard a drug which kills it but he lets Danny take the blame, meaning Danny has his license taken away until Rowan fixes his mistake. Rowan is thrown out by Vanessa, and Alice persuades Danny to let him stay at Leopard's Den. Olivia, Danny's step daughter, returns, and is not happy Danny is with Alice and has got over her mother so quickly. Danny proposes to Alice, but she refuses, telling him he needs to make up with his step daughter first. Fatani takes over Max's Bar, hires Buhle and they quickly fall in love. On the 2nd anniversary of Sarah's death, Danny, Olivia, Nomsa, Alice and Charlotte have a little ceremony at Sarah's favourite hut, where Olivia makes up with Alice by telling her that Sarah would have liked her. Du Plessis and Caroline could not make it because Dup is in hospital because of a heart condition and is awaiting surgery. In the finale, Fatani proposes to Buhle using Danny's ring accidentally, Du Plessis reveals he has no money as he gave it all to his son, which Caroline is not pleased about as she wanted to buy Mr Ekotto's land. Rowan is doing Du Plessis job while he rests from his Heart condition, which Du Plessis is not happy about. Vanessa's dad buys the land, but Du Plessis releases a rare animal, sets fake tracks and an environmental specialist claims it is a conservation zone which cannot be built on. Vanessa, using the money Rowan has given her for this purpose, buys out her father's share of Mara, confronting her father which she has been persuaded to do by Rowan, gets back together with Rowan and allows him to move back in. Danny proposes to Alice again, with help from Olivia, and this time she agrees. Series 6 (2011) It's months since Danny got engaged to Alice and the series kicks off in London where Danny and Alice are on their honeymoon and Danny arranges to meet up with his estranged father Robert Trevanion (Warren Clarke). They all return to Leopard's Den to help try to save the lions. Robert then drops a bombshell on Danny, that he is dying. having made up with his son, Robert goes off into the bush to die, having first bought the Travanions a new pride of Lions. Meanwhile, Olivia spots Thabo, a young offender who appeared in Series 5, doing community service out in town, and Danny agrees to take him on as an employee as part of his community service. Buhle has Fatani's baby boy, which they name Junior. Grieving Danny throws himself into his work and applies for the prestigious role of state vet, but his attempts to involve Thabo in the lion-breeding project leave Du Plessis feeling like an outsider in his own home. Other problems they face include a geologist who arouses suspicion when he arrives to survey the area, and a rogue baboon causes problems at Leopards' Den, their struggles with the Lion breeding program, the arrival of Thabo's delinquent older brother, and a plane full of illegally imported animals heading for Mara. Danny soon learns that Vanessa is struggling to keep hold of Mara's finances. That is not the last of their problems though. A new mining company Afrispec, starts blasting, which affects many of the animals behaviour, killing many and injuring Danny as a result. Meanwhile, the Travanions learn that Alice is pregnant with Danny's child. Afrispec have far worse planned for the Travanions than just a mine though, and attempt to buy Mara to use as a conference centre, and Leopard's Den to use as a motorway from the mine to the centre. The Travanions and Vanessa attempt to stand strong against the company, but Vanessa's financial crisis means she has no choice but to give in. Afrispec then force legal action onto Leopard's Den, and takes them to the High Court to force the sale of Leopard's Den. They are forced out, but Peeters agrees to let them to set up a field hospital in the Leopard's Den property. Du Plessis turns it into a protest site, until Caroline is attacked by a lion after one of Peeters' men cuts the generator wire. With his spirit lost, Du Plessis looks at retirement, until Danny and the rest of the family persuades him they need to keep fighting. However, the peaceful protest backfires when Jana is shot. Defeated, the Travanions decide to accept Georgina's offer for them to stay with her in England. But Du Plessis is determined to get Danny to stay, which results in the family being split apart. However, Du Plessis and Danny discover a secret: that Afrispec employees have been poaching Rhino horns. The pair agree not to tell the press, in return that Peeters stops work on Leopard's Den. In the final moments, Du Plessis and Danny are looking down at Leopard's Den from a hill, noticing the work has stopped, and plan their next move. Series 7 (2012) The seventh series begins with Danny and Dup working at the Big Five. Danny has led Alice to believe that he runs the place, when it is actually owned by Ed Lynch, but when Alice unexpectedly arrives from the UK, Danny is forced to tell her the truth, meanwhile they are called to Clearwater Farm where they must collect a unwanted pet, that actually turns out to be a Tiger. Later that night Dup realises that Danny is missing, he assumes that he is at Leopards Den, but when he arrives there he finds a dead body in the swimming pool and it turns out to be the body of Christian Peeters and Dup believes Danny to have killed Peeter's but it could have been anyone. A week later the family return to Africa and to there new home Clearwater Farm, but on arrival Danny is horrified to find that Dup hasnt lifted a finger since he and Alice left, and that the place still is a complete tip, later that day a Afrispec employee questions Danny and Dup to the disapearance of Christian Peeters and Dup is schocked at how calmly Danny is taking it, meanwhile Thabo announces to Liv that while they were away he took up a job at Afrispec, and Liv is horrified, but he later makes it up to the family by announcing that Afrispec is dropping out of the mine and Leopards Den is back on the market, however when the family try to buy back their old home they are shocked to find that Leopards Den and Mara are to be sold as a joint lot, the broke family unfortunately can't afford both. The family is then offered a partnership in Leopard's Den with Lynch, who isn't keen on the idea as is Danny. Ed and Danny are then informed of Dup's actions of releasing wild lions into Mara to deter potential buyers, the two go into Mara armed with tranquilliser guns to calmly take down the lions. Whilst in Mara, Danny and Ed discover that the pair aren't that different after all then end up working together in saving a lion the two accidentally darted twice! Afterwards Ed offers Danny to go into the partnership if he excludes Dup from the deal, Danny immediately declines which loses him Leopard's Den and Mara, but with some talking with Caroline and Dup, Danny decides to go into the deal with Ed but an extremely sceptical Caroline warns Dup that she believes no good will come from the new found partnership. Danny's eldest daughter Rosie returns from vet school in Cape Town to help the family settle back into life at Leopards Den

Wild At Heart
Wild at Heart is a current ITV television drama series about a Bristol-based vet and his family emigrating to start a game park in South Africa. The show premiered in January 2006 and is currently in its seventh series. It stars Stephen Tompkinson, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Olivia Scott-Taylor, Hayley Mills, Deon Stewardson, Nomsa Xaba, Thapelo Mokoena, Atandwa Kani, Tarryn Faye Brummage, Robert Bathurst and Jill Halfpenny, and is shot on location at Glen Afric reserve in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Dawn Steele who regularly stars as Alice Trevanion, in on maternity leave and only appears in episode one of the current seventh series. The show airs as a simulcast from the ITV Network on TV3 Ireland.[1] Series 1-5 of 'Wild at Heart' have been released on DVD, each released around the time the following series is airing on TV. Series 6 is due to be released on DVD on 6 February 2012.

[2] After the success of the American pilot, renamed Life Is Wild, the series was picked up by The CW TV network in the USA; however the show was cancelled in February 2008 due to low ratings. Life Is Wild has been picked up by the Hallmark TV channels in UK & South Africa.

Contents [hide] 1 Cast and characters 2 Past characters 3 Guest Characters 4 Ratings 5 Storylines/synopsis 5.1 Series 1 (2006) 5.2 Series 2 (2007) 5.3 Series 3 (2008) 5.4 Series 4 (2009) 5.5 Series 5 (2010) 5.6 Series 6 (2011) 5.7 Series 7 (2012) 6 Soundtrack release 7 Offscreen 8 DVD release 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

Cast and characters

Actor Character Previous actor Duration Notes

Stephen Tompkinson Danny Trevanion

2006—

Deon Stewardson Anders Du Plessis

2006—

Nomsa Xaba Nomsa Nguni

2006—

Olivia Scott-Taylor Olivia Adams Trevanion (Liv) Rafaella Hutchinson 2006–08, 2010—

Lucy-Jo Hudson Rosie Trevanion Gifthold

2006–09, 2012—

Thapelo Mokoena Cedric Fatani

2007—

Hayley Mills Caroline Du Plessis

2007—

Abigail Kubeka Cebile Fatani

2007— Recurring character

Dawn Steele Alice Trevanion

2009— On Maternity Leave

Tarryn Faye Brummage Charlotte Collins Trevanion Megan Martell 2009—

Atandwa Kani Thabo

2010— (Also starred in Life is Wild)

Robert Bathurst Ed Lynch

2012—

Jill Halfpenny Fiona Lynch

2012—

Past characters

Actor Character Duration Notes

David Butler Christian Peeters 2011–12 (Also starred in Life is Wild)

Niama McLean Buhle 2010–11

Kagiso Legoadi Cashile 2010–11

Sithokomele Majola Junior Fatani 2011

Bovril Jana the Cheetah 2006–11

Mary Anne Barlow Vanessa 2009–11

Hamley Hamley the Giraffe 2006–11

Cal MacAninch Rowan Collins 2009–10

Fana Mokoena Mr Ekotto 2007–10 Recurring Character

Luke Ward-Wilkinson Evan Adams/Trevanion 2006–09

Juliet Mills Georgina Black 2009

Shana Burton Grace 2009

Martinus Van Der Berg Max Gifthold 2007–09

Wayne Van Rooyen Kirk Du Plessis 2007–09

Kim Cloete Neema Du Plessis 2008–09

Unknown actor/actress Amber Du Plessis 2009

Amanda Holden Sarah Trevanion 2006–08

Mbongeni Nhlapo Regal 2006–08

Jessie Wallace Amy Kriel 2008

Craig Gardner Elliot Kriel 2008

Busi Lurayi Thandi Nguni 2007–08

Gary Lawson Alex Tate 2006–07

Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe Themba Khumalo 2006

Guest Characters

Actor Character Duration Notes

Dominika Jablonska Beth 2012

Bryan Van Niekerk Jonas Rittman 2011

Warren Clarke Robert Trevanion 2011

Camilla Waldman Hannah 2010

Nicholas Le Prevost Gene 2010

Susie Blake Judith 2008

Maggie O'Neill Elaine 2008

Samantha Womack Tessa 2007

Geoffrey Hutchings Bill 2007

Vincent Regan Simon Adams 2006, 2007

Ratings

Series Episodes Aired Average Viewers (million)

1 6 29 January 2006 - 5 March 2006 9.67

2 10 14 January 2007 - 25 March 2007 7.94

3 8 13 January 2008 - 9 March 2008 8.16

4 10 11 January 2009 - 15 March 2009 7.99

5 10 10 January 2010 - 14 March 2010 7.71

6 10 9 January 2011 - 13 March 2011 8.09

7 10 8 January 2012 - 11 March 2012 7.85 As of Episode 3

All ratings have been retrieved from www.barb.co.uk and include ITV1 HD & ITV1 +1 for series 6 onwards. Storylines/synopsis Series 1 (2006) Wild at Heart begins with the Trevanion family going about their lives in Bristol. Everything changes drastically when an abandoned monkey is brought into Danny's surgery. His wife Sarah suggests they go to Africa to rehabilitate the monkey in hopes that a holiday will bring the troop closer together. The business trip becomes a permanent adventure and throughout the series we see the Trevanions settle into life in the bush and work to start up a game park. They're faced with plenty of challenges along the way including lethal snake bites, a deadly strain of anthrax, darting lionesses, missing children, uninvited guests, and a rival game park whose manager causes plenty of trouble when he can. Series 2 (2007) The second series is even more eventful than the first. The Trevanions struggle with finances whilst trying to satisfy their first proper guests with luxury accommodations and game drives. They face a new owner of Mara, the neighbouring game park, after the original one is killed whilst illegally hunting. The new owner seems even more intent on causing mayhem as he takes water from Leopard's Den's watering hole and more. This series introduces more characters and more complications that are thrown at the Trevanions, including a bitter inspector who nearly shuts them down, the arrival of Sarah's difficult mother Caroline, plane crashes, releasing vultures, family revelations, marriage proposals, and worst of all, to nearly end the family's time in Africa, a fatal lion attack. Series 3 (2008) The series focuses on opening an animal hospital, which in the penultimate episode is nearly achieved when a fire strikes the luxury guest lodge. Series 3 features a new American owner of Mara who at first appears friendly enough, but following a betrayal, turns nasty. Sarah goes back to her teaching roots when the local school is missing a teacher, tiger cubs go missing, Du Plessis goes out of his way to find love, Caroline's sister Judith visits, and Rosie and Max get engaged. The penultimate and final episodes of the series feature tragedy when the fire ruins the wedding day and the family is left grieving the loss of Sarah as she dies whilst trying to save Jana the cheetah. The series also features former EastEnders star Jessie Wallace as Amy Kriel, the dimwitted, self-absorbed wife of Mara's American owner, Elliot Kriel. Series 4 (2009) The series begins 12 months after the fire and features Danny battling for custody of Evan, yet losing. However, Evan finally is allowed to return to the game reserve. Meanwhile Caroline has returned to England, so her sister Georgina comes to stay, yet fails to make friends with Du Plessis, revealing to him that Caroline does not love him anymore and will not be returning to Africa. A new vet, Alice Collins, joins Leopards Den. She and Danny get off at a bad start, but in the end Danny asks Alice to stay at Leopards Den. Rosie marries Max but suffers a miscarriage; then leaves with Max to study veterinary medicine in Cape Town. After a few episodes, and Alice nearly leaving, it becomes clear that she has feelings for Danny, about which she confides to Du Plessis. In the penultimate episode, a storm hits Leopard's Den and Alice seeks help for an injured Danny whilst the others try to find her daughter Charlotte among the rubble of the old hut. Alice finds help, and is taken to Mara. She manages to tell the owner, Vanessa, that Danny is still out in the storm, bleeding and unconscious. There is much confusion while searching for Danny, but he is eventually found. Afterward, Vanessa, the owner of Mara, tells Alice that she and Danny are an item, which is untrue. She says this because she knows Alice has feelings for Danny, too. Alice gets back to Leopards Den and packs her bags, planning to leave. Danny tells Vanessa that he does not return her feelings. When Danny finds Alice's suitcase, he goes after Alice, who is releasing a giraffe prior to her departure. Danny and Alice finally admit their love for each other in a passionate embrace. They tell no one, although everyone learns the truth. Alice and Danny's relationship is branded, "The worst kept secret in Africa!" Caroline returns in the final moments of the series 4 finale. Series 5 (2010) The fifth series begins with Du Plessis and Caroline's wedding, but someone from Caroline's past is set to ruin it before their marriage even starts. Elsewhere, Alice's brother Rowan moves in to Mara, while Alice tries to repair their sibling relationship. Evan has moved to England to live with his sister and Dad. Vanessa has got over her feelings for Danny and they remain friends, and starts a relationship with Rowan which ends after he gives a black leopard a drug which kills it but he lets Danny take the blame, meaning Danny has his license taken away until Rowan fixes his mistake. Rowan is thrown out by Vanessa, and Alice persuades Danny to let him stay at Leopard's Den. Olivia, Danny's step daughter, returns, and is not happy Danny is with Alice and has got over her mother so quickly. Danny proposes to Alice, but she refuses, telling him he needs to make up with his step daughter first. Fatani takes over Max's Bar, hires Buhle and they quickly fall in love. On the 2nd anniversary of Sarah's death, Danny, Olivia, Nomsa, Alice and Charlotte have a little ceremony at Sarah's favourite hut, where Olivia makes up with Alice by telling her that Sarah would have liked her. Du Plessis and Caroline could not make it because Dup is in hospital because of a heart condition and is awaiting surgery. In the finale, Fatani proposes to Buhle using Danny's ring accidentally, Du Plessis reveals he has no money as he gave it all to his son, which Caroline is not pleased about as she wanted to buy Mr Ekotto's land. Rowan is doing Du Plessis job while he rests from his Heart condition, which Du Plessis is not happy about. Vanessa's dad buys the land, but Du Plessis releases a rare animal, sets fake tracks and an environmental specialist claims it is a conservation zone which cannot be built on. Vanessa, using the money Rowan has given her for this purpose, buys out her father's share of Mara, confronting her father which she has been persuaded to do by Rowan, gets back together with Rowan and allows him to move back in. Danny proposes to Alice again, with help from Olivia, and this time she agrees. Series 6 (2011) It's months since Danny got engaged to Alice and the series kicks off in London where Danny and Alice are on their honeymoon and Danny arranges to meet up with his estranged father Robert Trevanion (Warren Clarke). They all return to Leopard's Den to help try to save the lions. Robert then drops a bombshell on Danny, that he is dying. having made up with his son, Robert goes off into the bush to die, having first bought the Travanions a new pride of Lions. Meanwhile, Olivia spots Thabo, a young offender who appeared in Series 5, doing community service out in town, and Danny agrees to take him on as an employee as part of his community service. Buhle has Fatani's baby boy, which they name Junior. Grieving Danny throws himself into his work and applies for the prestigious role of state vet, but his attempts to involve Thabo in the lion-breeding project leave Du Plessis feeling like an outsider in his own home. Other problems they face include a geologist who arouses suspicion when he arrives to survey the area, and a rogue baboon causes problems at Leopards' Den, their struggles with the Lion breeding program, the arrival of Thabo's delinquent older brother, and a plane full of illegally imported animals heading for Mara. Danny soon learns that Vanessa is struggling to keep hold of Mara's finances. That is not the last of their problems though. A new mining company Afrispec, starts blasting, which affects many of the animals behaviour, killing many and injuring Danny as a result. Meanwhile, the Travanions learn that Alice is pregnant with Danny's child. Afrispec have far worse planned for the Travanions than just a mine though, and attempt to buy Mara to use as a conference centre, and Leopard's Den to use as a motorway from the mine to the centre. The Travanions and Vanessa attempt to stand strong against the company, but Vanessa's financial crisis means she has no choice but to give in. Afrispec then force legal action onto Leopard's Den, and takes them to the High Court to force the sale of Leopard's Den. They are forced out, but Peeters agrees to let them to set up a field hospital in the Leopard's Den property. Du Plessis turns it into a protest site, until Caroline is attacked by a lion after one of Peeters' men cuts the generator wire. With his spirit lost, Du Plessis looks at retirement, until Danny and the rest of the family persuades him they need to keep fighting. However, the peaceful protest backfires when Jana is shot. Defeated, the Travanions decide to accept Georgina's offer for them to stay with her in England. But Du Plessis is determined to get Danny to stay, which results in the family being split apart. However, Du Plessis and Danny discover a secret: that Afrispec employees have been poaching Rhino horns. The pair agree not to tell the press, in return that Peeters stops work on Leopard's Den. In the final moments, Du Plessis and Danny are looking down at Leopard's Den from a hill, noticing the work has stopped, and plan their next move. Series 7 (2012) The seventh series begins with Danny and Dup working at the Big Five. Danny has led Alice to believe that he runs the place, when it is actually owned by Ed Lynch, but when Alice unexpectedly arrives from the UK, Danny is forced to tell her the truth, meanwhile they are called to Clearwater Farm where they must collect a unwanted pet, that actually turns out to be a Tiger. Later that night Dup realises that Danny is missing, he assumes that he is at Leopards Den, but when he arrives there he finds a dead body in the swimming pool and it turns out to be the body of Christian Peeters and Dup believes Danny to have killed Peeter's but it could have been anyone. A week later the family return to Africa and to there new home Clearwater Farm, but on arrival Danny is horrified to find that Dup hasnt lifted a finger since he and Alice left, and that the place still is a complete tip, later that day a Afrispec employee questions Danny and Dup to the disapearance of Christian Peeters and Dup is schocked at how calmly Danny is taking it, meanwhile Thabo announces to Liv that while they were away he took up a job at Afrispec, and Liv is horrified, but he later makes it up to the family by announcing that Afrispec is dropping out of the mine and Leopards Den is back on the market, however when the family try to buy back their old home they are shocked to find that Leopards Den and Mara are to be sold as a joint lot, the broke family unfortunately can't afford both. The family is then offered a partnership in Leopard's Den with Lynch, who isn't keen on the idea as is Danny. Ed and Danny are then informed of Dup's actions of releasing wild lions into Mara to deter potential buyers, the two go into Mara armed with tranquilliser guns to calmly take down the lions. Whilst in Mara, Danny and Ed discover that the pair aren't that different after all then end up working together in saving a lion the two accidentally darted twice! Afterwards Ed offers Danny to go into the partnership if he excludes Dup from the deal, Danny immediately declines which loses him Leopard's Den and Mara, but with some talking with Caroline and Dup, Danny decides to go into the deal with Ed but an extremely sceptical Caroline warns Dup that she believes no good will come from the new found partnership. Danny's eldest daughter Rosie returns from vet school in Cape Town to help the family settle back into life at Leopards Den