Line #6 Characters/FreshMeat


1	!!The main characters
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5	[[folder:Josie Jones]]
6	!!!Actor: Creator/KimberleyNixon
7	!!!Tropes:
8	* TheAlcoholic: Probably the heaviest one of the house, and that's saying something. Deconstructed when drunk drilling gets her thrown off the course.
9	* AlphaBitch: Albeit an ineffective one.
10	* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's much less sweet than she initially seems, and often gets violent or destructive when she loses her temper.
11	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: "I'm a single lady! Can't you handle it?"
12	* DumbBlonde: Not the brightest of the house and can be quite unprofessional and superficial.
13	* [[EvilIsPetty Anti-Villainy is petty]]: Can act quite petty towards Kingsley and Heather, especially when she first decides she's a single-lady.
14	* ItsAllAboutMe: Probably the worst offender followed by JP.
15	* {{Hypocrite}}:
16	** She's upset at Kingsley for his deception in regards to actually losing his virginity to Ruth instead of her, but Howard points out that she never broke up with Dave, a fact she never admitted to Kingsley.
17	** Despite being ok with an open relationship with Kingsley she chews him out for merely flirting with Sam, whilst sleeping with an entire other house and getting defensive when Kingsley calls her out on it.
18	* NeverMyFault: Probably her defining character flaw. For instance, she accuses Kingsley of emotionally manipulating her into cheating on Dave with him, starts a protest as opposed to just facing the consequences of drilling a hole through a patient's cheek, and accepts no blame whatsoever for breaking Heather's arm when trying out a martial arts move Sabine taught her. She gets [[WhatTheHellHero called out for this tendency]] multiple times, with Kingsley at one point dubbing her a "blame-shifter."
19	* RedOniBlueOni: She's the Red to Heather's Blue.
20	* TookALevelInJerkass: After her reveal as a BitchInSheepsClothing, she only gets worse. Season 2 does see her getting taken down a peg, though, and she returns to normal.
21	* VillainousBSOD: In series 2, when the housemates learn that she has been thrown off her course: "All I wanted was to give myself to dental hygeine..."
22	[[/folder]]
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24	[[folder:Kingsley Owen]]
25	!!!Actor: Creator/JoeThomas
26	!!!Tropes:
27	* ButtMonkey: Not a lot goes right for him, what with the EmbarrassingNickname or two he gets labelled with, JP falling on him and breaking his leg, being left stranded in the Pennines with said broken leg, not doing too well with his relationships (at first) (though he does get more action than [[HandsomeLech JP]]) suffering from ocular migraines due to stress before his finals.
28	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Though he is initially set up as a poor victim of circumstances, he has a radical change of identity at the beginning of the second series, gaining a completely new fashion sense and an interest in music that has never been mentioned previously.
29	* DirtyCoward: Confrontation is not his strong point.
30	* ExtremeDoormat: Doesn't always stand up for himself as often as he perhaps should. Dave had him on toast in every interaction.
31	* SmallNameBigEgo: When Heather asks Kingsley what genre his music fits into, he replies "That's for the NME to decide".
32	* TookALevelInJerkass: Starts off as pretty normal and more sensitive than the other housemates, but descends into playing multiple girls at once after his change in identity.
33	* UnexpectedVirgin: Lies about having had sex so he can fit in, but he doesn't lose his virginity until the first season.
34	* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Josie, until they get together in the second season finale.
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37	[[folder:Jonathan "JP" Pembersley]]
38	!!!Actor: Creator/JackWhitehall
39	!!!Tropes:
40	* AerithAndBob: His older brother is called Tomothy (his mother wanted to call him Tom, his father wanted to call him Timothy) and his name is Jonathan.
41	* AmbiguouslyBi: Has demonstrated attraction to other men, especially Kingsley and Javier (the latter, who even comments on how much JP compliments his body).
42	* BrokenPedestal: Averted; though he worships his late father (especially since he didn't get a chance to say goodbye to him before his death), Vod finds a series of letters from his father to his illicit lover, and burns them before JP can read them.
43	* CasanovaWannabe: Although JP does have a healthy enough sex life, he has only a lukewarm success rate with picking up girls, and gets fobbed off and rejected many, many times throughout the show. Compares badly to Kingsley who casually sleeps with almost every girl or woman he talks to.
44	* ChivalrousPervert: So crude and horny that he often doodles extremely detailed cocks on any kind of flat surface, but doesn't take advantage of women, and only ever sleeps with those he has some kind of bond with.
45	* DeadpanSnarker: For someone so sheltered and thick-headed, he can be a pretty sarcastic guy when the mood takes him. [[JerkassHasAPoint "Maybe he did some work and got paid for it"]], when answering Oregon's question as to how the handyman can afford so much money.
46	* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:He hooks up with Josie twice in the first season. After a long period of being JustFriends, they end the series as a couple.]]
47	* HandsomeLech: He's not a bad looking guy but his try hard flirting has turned off many girls as it has turned them on.
48	* HiddenDepths: Can be insecure and eager to please and fit in, though the fact that he's not a true JerkAss like his posh "friends" attracts some girls to him.
49	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Continually hangs out with his old friends from Stowe, who obviously don't like him and just use him for money. He's incredibly [[TooDumbToLive naive]] about it.
50	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kingsley once describes JP as this trope: "[JP] is a dick, but for a dick he's surprisingly all right."
51	* LovableCoward: When hiding from [[CrazyJealousGuy Dave]] because he slept with Josie whilst Josie was still in a relationship with the man.
52	* LadykillerInLove: For all of his gusto, he does genuinely fall for a few girls over the course of the series. [[spoiler:Especially Sam then Josie, who ends up being half of the OfficialCouple with him.]]
53	* OnlyKnownByInitials: Downplayed since that while most characters refer to him as JP, a few do call him Jonathan (such as his mother).
54	* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: His posh family means he can routinely hire barges or buy expensive items for the house. Come series 4, his reckless spending habits force his older brother to "turn off the money pipe" as incentive for him to find a post-university job.
55	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: JP tries variants of this pretty often, from paying Vod for the biggest room in the house, to bribing his way into a BP careers event. Sam even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in series 3: "You can't just throw money at me like a one-man Bullingdon Club".
56	* TheNicknamer: Some of his nicknames are affectionate ("The Funky Vodster" for Vod), others not so much ("The Pig Man of Arbroath" for Howard)
57	* UpperClassTwit: An ultimately harmless example but he is posh and at times lovably dumb.
58	* WellDoneSonGuy: To his distant dad "I know you loved me, even though you never said it... or showed it... or even implied it..."
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61	[[folder:Violet "Vod" Nordstrom]]
62	!!!Actor: Creator/ZaweAshton
63	!!!Tropes:
64	* BoyishShortHair: Is a Ladette and usually keeps her hair short, meaning her flatmates are thrown for a loop when her hair is given a GirlinessUpgrade when she gets with one of the handymen.
65	* DeadpanSnarker: Is one of the biggest offenders in the house, along with JP and sometimes Howard.
66	* EasilyForgiven: Gets away with selling out her friends alot and hiding away from her problems.
67	* HiddenDepths: Often accused of being flippant towards her education and not caring about anyone else. In reality, as she reveals to Josie and Oregon in series 4, she worked incredibly hard to get into university (doing night courses on top of several menial jobs) and cares about doing well.
68	** While not the most academic person, she is good enough to get a 2:1 as her final grade; a degree mark from a British university is determined by how well the student does over their final two years. Not that surprising since English Literature is all about backing up opinions, which Vod is very, ''very'' good at.
69	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Seems rough around the edges, but has a gruff, but sincere way of showing kindness to friends.
70	* TheLadette: Crass, vulgar, masculine, and sex-obsessed. Her intentional GirlinessUpgrade to impress a man she likes makes her housemates appropriately shocked.
71	* ScholarshipStudent: Her "RAF scam"; her father is a member, and she's funding her studies through an officer bursary.
72	* StarvingStudent: When her RAF money runs out, she takes to borrowing money from the housemates until they all demand it back at once, forcing her to get a job as a cleaner.
73	* StickyFingers: A RunningGag is Vod "borrowing" Oregon's things without permission, including a skirt, a dress, [[spoiler: and even ''her passport''.]]
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77	[[folder:Howard [=McCallum=]]]
78	!!!Actor: [[Creator/GregMcHugh [=Greg McHugh=]]]
79	!!!Tropes:
80	* BadassBookworm: Series 3, episode 4: two bookworms fight over a book, Howard is victorious.
81	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Boy is he ever. His first appearance sees him blow-drying duck carcasses with a hairdryer, while wearing a woolly jumper and no trousers. He tells Vod (who saw him like that upon first meeting him) that he is used to wearing "trousers of the mind". Right...
82	* DamnedByFaintPraise: Referred to as 'not dangerous' by Josie during her first vlog.
83	* DeadpanSnarker: Shares this role with JP and Vod, he's a MetaGuy to boot pointing if Kingsley hates Josie he must like her.
84	* LonersAreFreaks: Oregon calls him a freak when with Tony Shales. Though he's way more normal and self-aware than Brian.
85	* LovableNerd: Starts off as TheFriendNobodyLikes, but the others warm up to him after a while, and [[spoiler:he gets the highest grade at the end of the series.]]
86	* GeekPhysiques: Pudgier variant.
87	* NerdGlasses: He tries contacts but they don't work out for him.
88	* TheStoic: Or so he claims. To Stowe Boy JP, the term means something very different.
89	* TVGenius: His list of pub quiz specialist subjects is rather impressive.
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92	[[folder:Melissa "Oregon" Shawcross]]
93	!!!Actor: Creator/CharlotteRitchie
94	!!!Tropes:
95	* {{Bookworm}}: More scholarly than the others, barring Howard and ''Vod'' of all people.
96	* BadLiar: "Oh my god! I forgot I had a car!"
97	* {{Hipster}}: Very anti-mainstream especially when trying to impress Vod.
98	* MayDecemberRomance: With Tony Shales.
99	* NervousWreck: She's very neurotic about fitting in and sleeping with the right boys.
100	* SecretlyWealthy: Comes from a rich background like JP, but unlike him, it's not revealed at first.
101	* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler:As president of the Student Union. Cutting the funding for the wheelchair rugby team to start a poetry prize in her name, then cutting from everywhere else to cover up her mistakes, leads to a vote of no confidence from the student body, leading to her impeachment.]]
102	[[/folder]]
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104	!!Supporting characters
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106	[[folder:Other housemates]]
107	!!Paul Lamb The Invisible Man
108	!!!Tropes:
109	%%* TheGhost
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111	!!Sabine
112	!!!Actor: Jelka van Houten
113	!!!Tropes:
114	* BrutalHonesty: Not afraid to dispense it.
115	* TheComicallySerious: She's very, very straightforward and sensible. That's what makes her funny.
116	* FunnyForeigner: Averted. She's probably the most serious character on the show.
117	%%* NoSenseOfHumor
118	* OnlySaneMan: She often comes across as this when the other housemates are doing something particularly stupid.
119	* TheTeetotaler: Doesn't drink, much to the shock of the other housemates, who admit they need alcohol to do just about anything slightly risky.
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121	!!Candice
122	!!!Actor: Creator/FayeMarsay
123	!!!Tropes:
124	* CorruptTheCutie: Vod and Oregon are doing their best on her.
125	%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
126	* NiceGirl: Nicer than the other lot for sure and the most innocent.
127	* OopNorth: The only genuinely Mancunian member of the household, with a harsh accent to boot.
128	* PutOnABus: In Series 4, she [[spoiler:breaks up with Howard over the phone.]] Apparently they couldn't get Faye Marsay to return, because she's not seen or heard at all, we only hear [[spoiler:Howard's side of the phone conversation.]]
129	* TokenGoodTeammate: In Series 3, she's pretty much the only housemate who doesn't act selfishly and doesn't do anything mean to the others, at least not intentionally.
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132	[[folder:Teachers]]
133	!!Professor Tony Shales
134	!!!Actor: Creator/TonyGardner
135	!!!Tropes:
136	* DirtyOldMan: When he's together with Oregon, he's portrayed somewhat sympathetically, but after their breakup he moves to this category, as he simply won't stop lusting after her.
137	* MayDecemberRomance: Old enough to be Oregon's father, as evidenced by the fact that she later dates his ''son.''
138	* SexWithTheEx: Does manage to hook up with Oregon even after their breakup.
139	* StalkerWithACrush: Won't leave Oregon alone after they break up.
140	* TeacherStudentRomance: With Oregon.
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142	!!Dan
143	!!!Actor: Creator/RobertWebb
144	!!!Tropes:
145	* OneOfTheKids: Despite being in his late 30s or early 40s, Dan is desperate to prove he's hip with the kids.
146	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Subverted. He tries to come across as this, but when he feels betrayed by his students (such as when Kingsley files an anonymous complaint on him), he becomes petty and vindictive.
147	* TotallyRadical: Except not really cool at all.
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150	[[folder:Other students]]
151	!!Heather
152	!!!Actor: Creator/SophieWu
153	!!!Tropes:
154	* PutOnABus: In the beginning of Series 3, Sophie goes to Hong Kong [[spoiler:and abruptly breaks up with Kingsley]], so Kingsley doesn't even [[spoiler:get caught cheating on her with Josie]]. Though everything eventually comes out when she [[TheBusCameBack returns]] for one more apperance at Howard's birthday party.
155	* DeadpanSnarker: Loves {{Irony}}.
156	* RedOniBlueOni: She's the Blue to Josie's Red.
157	* RomanticFalseLead: She starts off as this, dating Kingsley while Josie longs after him, but eventually she becomes rounded enough to escape the stereotype.
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160	!!Dave
161	!!!Actor: [[Creator/BenMcGregor Ben [=McGregor=]]]
162	!!Tropes:
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164	* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: Towards Kingsley.
165	* JerkJock: Confident, subtly arrogant and aggressive. More so when drunk and comes damn close to beating up JP and Kingsley.
166	* HairTriggerTemper: Justified, Josie slept with JP and Kingsley.

Context Characters / FreshMeat