Jessica Harris
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| Jessica Harris | |||||
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| Portrayed by | Jennifer Biddall | ||||
| First appearance | October 2005 | ||||
| Last appearance | 1st January 2008 | ||||
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| Age | 20 | ||||
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Jessica "Jess" Florida Harris is a fictional character on the long-running Channel 4 British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
She was played by actress Jennifer Biddall.
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[edit] Character history
Jessica was a student at Hollyoaks Community College from St Albans and studied marketing and advertising.
Jessica was confident, beautiful, headstrong and determined to always get what she wants and frequently does. She was often perceived as snobbish, and probably was. She had long, blonde hair which by 2006 had become brown, and by the end of her run, had become short.
[edit] Mark and Gilly
When Jessica first arrived she couldn't be parted from her mobile phone (and her link to ex-boyfriend Mark) but over time it seems she was drifting apart from her long-term boyfriend. When Mark turned up at the college Jess had to retrieve a letter she sent dumping him for Gilly Roach. The two stayed together until the letter finally showed up revealing all. Mark and Gilly battled for her affections when she was in hospital for meningitis but she couldn't decide between them, so she wanted to date both of them. She later dumped Mark and Gilly saying that it was unfair on both of them. She and Olivia Johnson protested about the fact that they were unfairly sacked at Il Gnosh, going to lengths such as a naked sit-in.
[edit] Hating Kris Fisher
Her best friend, Olivia, died in the Dog in the Pond fire which left her heart broken even though she didn't want to show it. New flatmate Kris, who had convinced Olivia to stand up for herself (Jessica running out of the Dog after Olivia stood up to her was one of the reasons Jess was not in the fire), taunted and insulted Jess for not being a true friend to Olivia, going so far as to read to Jessica unflattering comments Olivia had made in her diary.
In fall 2006, she battled with Will Hackett for the position of Editor of HCC's school newspaper. She got the position by using Russ Owen's social anthropology research on the class differences between the Owens and the McQueens as her article, which caused Russ and Mercedes to break up for a while.
[edit] Love/Hate With Kris Fisher
Jess and her flatmate Kris have had a somewhat turbulent relationship. Kris kissed a man in front of Jessica to make her jealous. In return, to make Kris jealous, she kissed Elliot Bevan, who had a crush on her. In early 2007 they were locked in the flat bathroom together, and finally admitted their attraction for one another. They were leaning in to kiss when flatmate Will opened the door.
In the 2007 Valentines' Day episode, after Kris stood up for Jess against Will, Kris tried to throw her out of his room by saying "It looks as if we're done here" Jessica then continues to slam Kris' door with them both inside, saying "We are far from being done," before kissing him passionately. The two are seen continuing to kiss and falling back onto Kris' bed.
They end up making love and in morning they seemed to be happy with what had happened until they began to argue again. Kris later says to her (in front of Will and Zoe Carpenter) "No point giving me the cold shoulder 'cos after last night there's no denying you want me and after last night there's no more having me."
In an emotional twist in the storyline, Jess feared for her health after Kris is tricked into believing that he is HIV positive after Will changed Kris's negative drug test results. Jess had an HIV test which comes back negative. A few days later, Kris found out he was also HIV negative, but had a difficult time forgiving Jess for her reaction.
[edit] Financial Difficulties
In March 2007, Jess discovered that her father had been declared bankrupt, thus putting an end to her glamorous lifestyle and plunging her into the harsh realities of being a strapped-for-cash student.
[edit] Malachy Fisher
She slept with Kris's brother Malachy Fisher, to make Kris jealous and get back at him for sleeping with Nathan.
Jess also helped Kris tell Malachy about his cross-dressing, bisexual nature. Malachy at first was disguisted but after speaking to Kris, ended up thinking that it was just a phase he was going through, although Kris knows differently. Jess and Kris also slept together again, but Kris admitted to Jess that he's only good for sex at the minute, Jess seemed to be able to understand that and continued to support Kris. Kris then left town for several months.
Jess was told about Freeganism by Elliot when she was unable to afford food, however rather than taking wasted food from the Ashworth's store she took food off the storeroom shelves.
[edit] Financial Difficulties get worse
Due to Jess's shortage of money, Bailiffs visited her room and took some of her belongings. Jess tried desperately to find money. After Tony refused to give her her job back, OB offered her a job as MOBS, dressing as a Strawberry. A passerby offered her a job surveying property for resale at a high mark-up. Jess soon began to feel guilty about conning people, however desperate for money, she scammed items for Jack and Frankie and then spend the money on new clothes. When Frankie found out she was angry and kicked Jess out of the Dog.
On August 30th her father returned and offered to repay her debts for her, claiming he had gotten his money back. However her father was still bankrupt and wanted to use Jess to seduce a potential business partner. However he was arrested before he could close the deal. Jess was upset at this and refused to visit her father in prison, until Zak convinced her. Her father told her she was just like him, telling her he had stashed £1000 in the flat. He said she would more likely spend the money on herself then paying her debts. After some consideration, Jess gave the money to Darren as repayment for conning him earlier.
[edit] Causing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
When the hot water goes Jess asks Danny Valentine to fix it cheaply for the housewarming party for John Paul McQueen plus to welcome Kris back. Problem is that the boiler goes wrong and carbon monoxide fills the room. The smoke alarm goes off as a warning but Zak takes it out. The carbon monoxide makes everybody at the party feel ill. During this party Kris and Jess danced together and shared a brief moment before it being ruined by Darren, Jess said that she has missed him and they had been emailing each other over summer.
Jess was terrified she would be sued, but the school sent her a letter claiming all responsibility.
[edit] Alienating John Paul and Elliot
When John Paul McQueen moved into the halls, Jessica gave him Elliot Bevan's room (Elliot was in Nevada at the time) and lied to him that he had to pay her money she would then give to the school. This went on for some weeks until Elliot returned to find his belongings clumsily thrown into another room, some of them broken. He locked himself in her room for hours and hours as a protest, only to leave when he had to go to the bathroom. Meanwhile, John Paul moved back home.
[edit] Affair with Darren Osborne
When Zoe asked Jess to place some money on a horse Jess decided after much debating to treat herself with the money and lie to Zoe and say the horse lost, Zoe already found out the horse won and came to collect her money from an empty-handed Jess. The tension between them ended in a fist fight when Jess got drunk at the Fresher's ball, spilt a drink on Zoe's new dress and ripped it.
Zoe and Jess finally made up when Kris showed them a video of them fighting. Zoe continued to be friends with Jess, even giving her 500 pounds (Myra McQueen took the money as compensation for what happened to John Paul and Carmel).
On Friday the 23rd of November, Jess slept with best friend Zoe Carpenter's boyfriend Darren Osborne, after the pair had some luck at a casino, which led to them sleeping together on the pool table in the Dog with money scattered around them. Two days after there steamy encounter on the pool table Jess and darren slept together again but both regretted it. Kris then found out and Jess and Kris had a confrontation where Kris worked about Jess and darren's affair and darren and Jess going to the casino behind Zoe's back and the whole conversation was recorded on the radio. Zoe and the whole of Hollyoaks heard it and this led to Zoe moving out of the student flats. Zoe then got revenge by writing crude insults on Jess' door and throwing her clothes all around the village. Jess got her own back by editing Zoe's instructional video for Evissa salon to make it seem as if Carmel McQueen was prostituting herself.
[edit] Exit
When Darren arranged a poker game with Warren Fox in the loft, Jess came with him. The stakes got very high and Darren offered Warren his half of The Dog - he promptly lost it to Warren.
A couple of days later whilst walking through the village, Darren and Jess followed a drunk Louise Summers home, so Darren can confront Warren. They walk in to find Louise passed out on the bed. Jess and Darren see Evissa's takings on the bedside table and decide steal the money.
The following day, Jess and Darren went to the casino with Evissa's takings and won £200,000. Jess asked Darren what they would spend their money on, and Darren revealed that he was going use the money to buy The Dog back from Warren. He also revealed that he planned to get back together with Zoe, much to the shock of Jess.
On New Years' Eve, Darren and Warren had a showdown and when Warren asked for the money on the stroke of midnight, Darren was shocked to discover that all of his money was gone. As Darren frantically searched for the money, Jessica departed Hollyoaks village for good - £200,000 richer.
[edit] Possible return?
There have been many rumours circulating the internet that Jess is to return to Hollyoaks. Also upon meeting her, Jennifer has admitted to a fan of Hollyoaks that producers have been interested in having her character back from beingon the run. These include during the Summer sometime,in September for a funeral and many others. There has been no conformation that she will make a return anytime soon. There has also been rumours that Jess will be one of the characters used in Hollyoaks latest late night spin off. Could there be a happy ending for Kris and Jess after all?
[edit] External links
- Jessica Harris on the Hollyoaks website
[edit] References
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