Fletch (Hollyoaks)
| Jamie "Fletch" Fletcher | |||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Sam Darbyshire | ||||||||
| First appearance | 2005 | ||||||||
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Jamie "Fletch" Fletcher (born 28 May 1991) [1] is a fictional character on the long-running Channel 4 British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
He is played by actor Sam Darbyshire.
Character history
Jamie is best friends with his cousin Josh Ashworth. He is currently at Hollyoaks Comprehensive School. He spends a lot of time attempting to devise money-making schemes. After classmate Amy Barnes had a fallout with her friend Michaela McQueen, Fletch stood up for her against Michaela and Amy's ex-boyfriend Ste Hay, suggesting that he had a crush on Amy.
He persuaded the Ashworth family to put their share of the money towards buying Drive N' Buy, telling them that buying the shop would pay off better in the long run. He also revealed that his own parents are always away working and he that he didn't want Josh's parents to be away like his own. He was then involved in a car crash involving Josh, Amy Barnes, Ste Hay and Michaela McQueen and was convicted for joyriding.
After the crash Josh and Amy got together and Fletch was dragged into Josh's plan to make money so he could take Amy out on dates by selling old and unwanted items on a stall outside Drive N Buy, but Fletch wanted some money to buy a new video game, which led to a fight that had to be broken up by Max Cunningham and Sam "O.B." O'Brien. Fletch told Max that he thought Amy was using Josh and wasn't really interested in him but he eventually made up with Josh.
Later Amy broke up with Josh and he begged Fletch to help him write and perform a song for Amy to hear at Hannah's 18th birthday party, and - though reluctant - he eventually agreed. That night Amy almost didn't show but Fletch rang Amy up and managed to persuade her to come, as Josh was feeling down. Amy came but left in embarrassment, forcing Josh to run after her and leave Fletch singing the song about his best mate's girlfriend by himself.
In the revamped credits from 28th May Fletch appears in the opening credits along with Tom, Elliot and Katy who didn't appear before.
Fletch reappeared in early July with him and Josh planning to form a band to stop them from getting bored during the summer. Fletch played the guitar, Josh the keyboard and Amy the lead on vocals. Michaela who can't play an instrument wants to do backing vocals and tries to persuade Josh, Fletch and Amy to let her join the band. Their first gig turns into a disaster when Amy is unable to sing as she has to look after Leah and both he and Josh become sick with nerves, forced to end the gig early.
Relationship with Sasha
Sasha Valentine has recently showed her affections towards Fletch, as has Michaela but only because she is desperate to be in the band. Fletch took advice from Darren and told him he was still a virgin so Darren suggested choosing both girls. On Josh's advice Fletch chose Sasha but then received a photo message on his phone from Michaela showing her lying on her bed in a baby-doll night dress, Fletch went to Michaela's house where they slept together. The next day he asked Sasha out on a date. She agreed at first but was upset to learn that he slept with Michaela, when she burst into Sasha's house to discover the two of them nearly sleeping together. Fletch tried to apologise to Sasha, even writing a song to show how he felt about her, with some help from Lauren, Sasha's half sister. However when Sasha heard the song, she laughed at it, calling it cheesy and again kicked Fletch out.
He achieved B and C grades in his GCSE exams.
Drugs
Fletch's first drug use was when he attended a wild party at Ste and Amy's council flat where he was pressurised in smoking cannabis. As a result, Fletch started smoking cannabis on a regular basis as he enjoyed it. Ste pursaded Fletch to bunk off Sixth form to spend the day with him. At first Fletch was relucant, but Ste mentioned that he and Fletch could smoke cannabis together. Unable to resist the prospect of drugs, Fletch relaxed with Ste in his flat until Amy returned.
Sasha soon got fed up with Fletch's new found hobby, so she told him not to hang around with her anymore. Fletch asked Josh for his help in getting in to the Loft so that he can see Sasha to try to make it up to her. Josh didn't want to as he was against Fletch's haphazard attitude to drugs. Fletch promised Josh that he'd give up the weed if Josh could help him get to Sasha. Josh agreed and brandishing a fake ID, but Fletch wasn't convinced that he'd get in with it and didn't so he continued smoking cannabis.
A depressed Sasha tried to find Fletch after overhearing Valerie Holden and Leo Valentine describe her as boring and with her confidence gone down, Sasha decided to join in with Fletch's hobby and they both started smoking cannabis together. When Fletch and Sasha attended a party for Niall Rafferty at the Mcqueens' for, Fletch suggested they try Amphetamine speed together, and within minutes after taking it, their moods changed from being bored, to wide awake, excited and chatty. They both suffer the effects the next morning with a drug-induced hangover.
Fletch picked up heroin that dropped out of Myra Mcqueen's bag in Drive and Buy, which was the same heroine that Niall planted on Michaela, and kept it in his school locker. Fletch is terrified when Mrs Webster did a spot check of lockers looking for drugs. Fletch pleads with Sasha to help him but she can't understand why he even picked up herion in the first place and ignores him. Just as the locker search is about to begin, Sasha sets off the fire alarm and Fletch is saved. Fletch thanked Sasha but she demanded he got rid of the heroin.
Fletch is invited over to Sasha's house so they could spend some time together. When Calvin leaves the house, Fletch and Sasha are left alone together. Fletch suggested they try some weed together. At first Sasha was reluctant, but agrees when Fletch explains that Calvin wouldn't be back for hours. Calvin unexpectedly returns early to find the house in a mess and is outrage to find Sasha and Fletch stoned by cannabis. Fletch is then thrown out of the house and is told by Calvin to stay away from Sasha.
The next morning Fletch goes to see Sasha at her house, but Calvin again tells him to stay away from her. Calvin is aghast when Sahsa packs her bags and leaves with Fletch to stay with Amy and Ste at their council flat. At the flat, Fletch and Sasha went alone in the bedroom. As Fletch was about to roll a joint, Sasha discovers heroin in Fletch's pocket and is horrified that he had kept it. She lambastes Fletch, but her curiosity gets the better of her and they both agree to try the heroin just once.
The next morning, Fletch and Sasha wake up feeling terrible. As Fletch throws up in the toilet, Sasha regrets using heroin the night before as they suffer the effects of a massive comedown in Ste and Amy's bathroom. When Ste bangs on the door, Fletch and Sasha flush the evidence of their drug use down the toilet but their paranoid behaviour and sickly state makes Ste suspicious. Finding a piece of silver foil in the toilet bowl and realising what they've been up to, Ste forces Sasha and Fletch out of his and Amy's flat, warning them that he can't have junkies in their house when he has a baby to think about. Sasha and Fletch agree to bunk off school knowing they're both wanting to finally have sex. Although there is a nervous hesitation between them, it's not long before they're back at the Valentines' and in bed together. However, they're inturupted when a furious Leo walks in to find them. He immediately throws Fletch out of the house. Fletch and Sasha both take heroin on Sasha's 17th birthday which Sasha bought and paid for from her birthday money that her family gave her. This soon became an addiction and both were even willing to steal to buy more heroin for themselves. Sasha and Fletch stole a purse from a lady in Il Gnosh so they could buy more heroin. Fletch put the heroin in his pocket and lies to Sasha claiming that he's lost it so that he can have it to himself. Just before Fletch is about to perform The Baby Diagos with Josh and Michaela at battle of the bands in the SU Bar, Fletch takes the heroin that he and Sasha had bought. As The Baby Diegos are announced, Josh and Michaela realise that Fletch has disappeared. When he staggers backstage and turns up late, clearly out of his face, Sasha knows immediately that Fletch lied to her when he said he had lost the heroin, and Michaela and Josh are humiliated as they're booed offstage due to Fletch messing up playing the guitar. Fletch makes humble apologies and says that he needed a few drinks to calm his nerves, but Michaela and Josh are on to him and accuse him of taking cannabis. Fletch is adamant that it's untrue so Michaela sneakily searches his bag and finds heroin. As Micheala goes to confront Fletch, Leo catches her with the heroin in her hand. Michaela tries to make Fletch own up that it's his and not hers, but he doesn 't and lies to everyone saying he doesn't take heroin. Fletch then apologizes to Saha about lying to her, but she refuses to accept his apology.
The next morning a hungover Fletch attempts to resolve things with Sasha. She is only willing to forgive him if he admits the heroin was his to Michaela and Josh, but Fletch couldn't bring himself to do it. As Michaela loses it with Sasha for being on Fletch's side, Leo breaks them up, leaving everyone thinking Michaela is a smackhead. Josh confronts Fletch, promising to help him if he'd just tell the truth. Fletch can't bring himself to tell the truth so Josh walks away from him, unable to help when he's in denial. Fletch is defensive, expecting more hassle from Sasha, but she is sympathetic, embraces him and gives him another chance.
Being distant from Josh, Fletch desperately tries to avoid the pull of heroin. When he sees Ste, he decides to ask him for some weed, but Ste insisted he could have heroin instead if he wanted. Fletch assured Ste that he's given up the heroin, so Ste sells him some weed instead. Later, as Fletch accepts Josh's invite to the Ashworths', it looks like the two are friends again. But unable to resist the lure of his addiction, Fletch calls Ste for one last hit. Fletch is drawn further into his his drug-addiction lifestyle, isolating himself again from Josh. Fletch and Sasha steal Josh's MP3 Player that Josh had left, so they decide to sell it in order to buy more herion. Josh confronts Fletch after Michaela told him that she spotted Sasha and Fletch selling his MP3, and is disgusted that his friend resorts to stealing to buy drugs. Fletch attempts to apologise to Josh for stealing his MP3 player, but Josh wouldn't listen and tells him he doesn't want to be friends anymore. Later that day, Fletch and Sasha bought herion from the money they got when they sold Josh's MP3 Player. At another desperate attempt to buy some heroin, Fletch pursuades Sasha to steal money from her family in order to buy some, and she agrees.
Fletch goes to visit Ste to buy more heroin, and takes it in Ste and Amy's council flat. Amy is absolutely furious when she unexpectadely returns to the flat and finds Fletch almost unconscious while Leah is there. Ste denies selling Fletch the drugs, but Amy isn't interested and leaves. Later that day, Sasha comes across Fletch staggering across the village. Fletch is completely wasted and dumps her.
The next day, Fletch goes to visit Sasha in hostpital after she let Ste inject her with heroin, and apologizes to her saying he didn't mean it when he said he didn't want to be with her anymore, but an angry Leo throws him out, warning him to stay away from Sasha as he thought Fletch was the one who Sasha was doing drugs with. Later that day Fletch goes to visit Ste to buy more heroin, but Ste refuses and says he doesn't want to do it anymore after what happened to Sasha, leaving a desperate Fletch wanting more heroin.
After Sasha is healed from her hangover, she meets up with Fletch and asking him if he's got anymore drugs, but he hasn't and says it would be best if they both layed off them for a while. Danny finds Fletch with Sasha and tells him it would be best if he and Sasha wouldn't see eachother, and Fletch agrees but Sasha still wants to be with him.
Fletch spots Sasha and Justin kissing together in the street, so Fletch confronts her and tells her he saw them both kissing. Sasha reminds Fletch he dumped her, telling him he has no right to be jealous, but then Fletch admits he wants her back with Sasha and with little hesitation, they return to form and score some drugs. Sasha and Fletch bought more herion by stealing Nancy's purse and steal the money she had in it. Later, Michaela sees a wasted Sasha and Fletch at the park and pities her former friends.
On Fletch's 17th birthday, Hannah bumps into a rough looking Fletch and invites him round for a birthday lunch. Fletch agrees but Josh is adamant that Fletch won't show up as usual. When Fletch finally shows up, his party is overshadowed by the return of Rhys and he sneaks out, feeling ignored. Fletch is desperate for another fix and tells Sasha this, so she decides steal her dad's keys to the boiler room and sends a message to Fletch asking him to meet her there so they can take the drugs there and avoid the risk of getting caught in the street. Sasha and Fletch were again desperate for another fix but neither had any money, so Sasha decided to con money out of her dad who is blinded by her desperation to score and returns to her hideout with Fletch to take more heroin.
Just before sixth form exams were about to start, Fletch asks Sasha if she wanted to take herion with him that he borrowed from Nige and said he'd be allowed to pay him back tomorrow, but Sasha suggested they should take it after the exams. Unable to resist, Fletch takes the herion in the bathroom on his own, and arrives late for his exam totally off his head, and vomits on his desk half way through examination, thus failing and is sent home. Later that day, Fletch attempts to steal money from Drive and Buy to pay back Nige, but at the last minute is spotted by Josh and threatens Fletch he'd call the poilce, but Fletch ignores him and tries to run away with the money, only for Josh to grab him down and take the money away from him and pities Fletch who is lying on the floor in a rough state.
The next morning, Sasha tells Fletch that Nige confronted her telling her he knows she's with Fletch scoring drugs and wants his money back. Fletch promised to get the money and turns to Josh in Drive and Buy but he's sick of being used and refused to help. as Fletch left the shop he spotted an opportunity to snatch a bag in the village, he quickly shoveed Myra Mcqueen and grabs it, but she is unaware of who it was. Frustrated to find no money inside, Fletch and Sasha steal a laptop from the head teacher's office to try and sell.