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Characters
Thanks to some of the messageboard members for writing these profiles - stevenE for Kim, Sugar, Stella, Nathan and Matt, and gorgonzola for Beth and Tom!!
Kim
Kim is fifteen at the beginning of the first series and sexually obsessed with her best friend Sugar. Kim desperately tries throughout the series to understand her own feelings.
Kim is a sweet innocent girl, but is up to try anything as long as it involves Sugar.
She is a normal teenager trying to deal with the discovery of sex, love, lies, drugs and obsession,
Gay or not, Kim's voyage of discovery is one all of us have gone though, even if our families were not quite as messed up as hers.
Kim also has to deal with coming out to herself as well as her family, and Sugar. It's hard when the only person you would trust to tell is the one you're in love with, and you have no idea if they feel the same or not, let alone if they could even consider a same sex relationship.
Sugar
Sugar is a typical teenager into drink, going out, sex and guys, as well as Kim's best friend. Sugar, whose real name is Maria Sweet, is one of these people that loves life and can get anything she wants. Incredibly sweet and sassy, not to mention clued up, she is a bit of a bad influence on Kim, getting her mixed up in all kinds of things, and getting them both into situations.
Sugar has an addictively electric personality that attracts people, especially Kim, to the point of obsession.
Sugar represents that one person in your life that was always unreachable, the one you always wanted but could never quite build up the courage to try and talk to, or ask out. The person who you would dream about night after night and stare at for hours from distance. But Sugar seems to constantly tease Kim, with little glimmers of hope that she might just feel the same.
Saint
Saint is the love of Kim's life in series two. Although not always a clear relationship, and with a clear age difference, she has won Kim's heart and they care about each other deeply. Saint runs a sex shop in Brighton called Munch Box, and DJs at gay club The CC.
Stella
Middle-aged Stella is married to Nathan and mother to Kim and Matt, not that she really believes it. Stella appears not to have ever really grown up and refuses to take on the responsibilities of parenthood, or adulthood. Stella spends her time trying to enjoy the freedoms of life as if she was Kim's age, and would like to believe that she is Kim's sister rather than her mum (perfectly represented when she wanted to borrow Kim's jeans to go and see Dale!)
She spends a lot of her time trying to cover the tracks of her extra marital activities from Nathan, who she still loves, but as she says, 'when you've had two kids and you've been living with the same man for 15 years the sex isn't that great'.
Nathan
Kim's dad Nathan is described by Kim as 'half man, half pinny'.
Nathan is a tying to be a good father but is completely ignorant of anything going on around him especially when it comes to his family. He appears to live life in his own dream world where his family is perfect, his wife is faithful, his son is normal, his daughter is straight and doing well at school, and Brighton is the perfect escape from London (well we can all wish can't we).
Nathan has grown up an become an adult without realising, he has become boring and un-exciting; all the things you see in your parents and adamantly believe you will never be like when you grow up.
He has very nearly 'tidied himself out of a marriage', and doesn't have much luck when he decides to try and spice things up, his dessert idea sent Stella to hospital.
Matt
Kim's confused and alienated younger brother who believes he is from a different planet. Matt is desperate for attention from his parents and others, and goes to extreme lengths to get noticed. even to the point of turning everything he owns blue including himself and his guinea pig.
As far as Kim is concerned, Matt is just her brother who wanders round with a goldfish bowl on his head. He completes a remarkable transformation into a goth for series two!
Beth
Beth only appears for two episodes of the first series of Sugar Rush, but makes a strong impression on Kim. When we first meet her we think she's trying to "un-gay" herself at the church meeting, but we later learn it is just to see 'who she can pull'. She brings a normality to Kim's life, and seems really interested in Kim, which in turn causes Kim to believe she's over Sugar. She is in fact not, and we leave Beth on the pier, after being stood up.
Tom
Kim's next-door neighbour, the son of two gay men who has to deal with being called names himself; and after telling Kim that he's not gay, she tells him she is. He appears to stalk her through the beginning episodes, but after a brief fling with Sugar that didn't turn out so well, they become friends and sleep together in the desperateness to not end up as virgins. Tom is devastated when he realises Kim is gay, but overcomes this to become cool, with his own crew who even carry his trombone for him.
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