Johnny Ruffo returns home to Perth for Christmas with his girlfriend Tahnee Simms

Johnny Ruffo has returned home to Perth to celebrate Christmas with his family.

The actor and singer, 34, who has terminal brain cancer, shared a photo to Instagram on Wednesday of himself and girlfriend Tahnee Simms on their flight to WA.

‘So excited to be in Perth for Christmas,’ he captioned the image.

Johnny Ruffo has returned home to Perth to celebrate Christmas with his family 

Johnny previously said he was determined to keep fighting until at least Christmas so he could have a long-overdue family reunion.

He told 7News in September he hoped to see his brother Michael, who had been living in Ireland for the last three years.

‘My brother lives in Ireland now so I haven’t seen him for three years and he’s coming home for Christmas and I honestly can’t wait to see him,’ he said.

‘We’re thick as thieves. Honestly, he is my hero. He is everything to me. And I cannot wait to see him. I don’t know how I’m going to react, I cannot wait, he’s everything.’

The actor and singer, 34, who has terminal brain cancer, shared a photo to Instagram on Wednesday of himself and girlfriend Tahnee Simms (right) on their flight to WA 

In August, Johnny confirmed his brain cancer diagnosis was terminal and said he feared how his girlfriend Tahnee would cope once he is gone.

‘You can only imagine how difficult it’s been for her,’ he said on The Project.

‘What plays in my head a lot is, I hate to say this, how hard it may be for her if something does happen to me.

‘So, it’s something that I don’t want to think about. It just gets me a little bit emotional about it because I know at some point something will happen, whether it’s, you know, a month from now or 10 years from now or 20 years.’

Johnny previously said he was determined to keep fighting until at least Christmas so he could have a long-overdue family reunion 

Johnny told host Carrie Bickmore he had already outlived his life expectancy.

‘At some point it will get me but I’m still fighting. Still kicking on. Looking up my diagnosis and my tumour, the average life expectancy was three years,’ he said.

‘And for me it’s now been five years. I’m already winning. My goal now is to try and help as many people as I can and also live a happy life’.

Johnny was first diagnosed with the disease in 2017 after he went to hospital with painful migraines.

In August that year, he had a 7cm brain tumour surgically removed before undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

He told 7News in September he hoped to see his brother Michael, who had been living in Ireland for the last three years