Garry Hobbs

Infobox EastEnders character 2


character_name=Garry Hobbs
actor_name=Ricky Groves
years=2000—
first=18 September 2000
classification=Present; regular
dob=7 March 1971
status=Divorced
occupation=Mechanic
home=3a Albert Square
mother= Hazel Hobbs
wife = Lynne Slater (2001-2004)
daughters = Vivienne Hobbs
1st cousin once=Reg Hobbs

Garry Pelé Hobbs is a fictional character in BBC soap opera "EastEnders". He is played by Ricky Groves, and made his first appearance on 18 September 2000.

History

Garry arrived in the square as Lynne Slater's boyfriend, moving to Walford with the Slater family in September 2000. They got married in December 2001 (in a ceremony where he revealed his unusual middle name, presumably in reference to the legendary Brazilian footballer), despite Lynne finding out Garry had tried it on with her sister Kat and Garry finding out that Lynne had slept with Beppe di Marco.

Garry was horrified when married Laura Beale told him she had had a drunken one-night-stand with him resulting in pregnancy. Garry was so drunk he couldn't remember sleeping with her. Laura said the baby couldn't be her husband Ian's child because he'd recently undergone a vasectomy. Lynne was shocked when she heard this and didn't know if she could forgive Garry but they got back together in the end. Laura gave birth to a son, whom Garry named Bobby after the famous football player Bobby Moore. When Bobby had a blood test, Laura discovered his blood type was different from hers and Garry's. This meant that Ian's vasectomy hadn't worked and he must be the natural father. She decided not to tell Ian or Garry because Ian had looked down his nose on her and Bobby and she thought Garry would make a better dad. For nearly a year, Garry believed he was Bobby's father.

Laura died in a fall down the stairs on 30 April 2004, and Bobby came to live with Garry. After a while, even Lynne accepted Bobby as part of the family and when she became pregnant she looked forward to having a brother or sister for Bobby, but then Pat Evans found Bobby's birth certificate stating Ian as the father. Garry had become attached to Bobby and loved him as his own but was forced to hand him over to natural father Ian. Bobby now lives with Ian, wife Jane and his half-siblings Peter and Lucy Beale.

Garry looked forward to the birth of his and Lynne's child. They knew it was to be a girl and named her Vivienne, after Lynne's deceased mother. When a funfair ride fell down on a summer day, the stress caused Lynne to suffer a late miscarriage eight months in. On the day of the baby's funeral, Lynne moved away and divorced Garry. Garry was so devastated, he tried to take his own life only to be saved by best friend Minty Peterson. Garry then lived with Minty and Naomi Julien. Garry and Minty work as mechanics at the Arches. Their boss used to be Ian, once Garry's sworn enemy, but Phil Mitchell has since taken over.

Garry was sceptical about Minty's new found friendship with newcomer SJ Fletcher, who he thought was a gold digger. This caused many arguments between the friends, and resulted in Minty moving out. Eventually Minty saw sense when Garry led Minty to SJ who was in bed with Sid Clarke. SJ left with Sid and Minty returned to live with Garry and Naomi.

When Garry appeared distant and twitchy, naturally Minty and Naomi were worried about him, especially when they found out his ex-wife, Lynne, had got engaged to another man. Finding an empty ring box, they wrongly assumed he was eloping. In fact, he was attending the wedding of his mother, Hazel, in order to give her away - he'd only put his wedding band on to pretend all was well between him and Lynne, despite already knowing of her engagement. After Hazel decided not to marry her fiancé, Gerald, due to his abundance of nasal hair, she and Garry rushed back to Gerald's house to collect her belongings, but Gerald came home while they were still there, and, thinking Garry was Hazel's toyboy, smacked him on the nose. He got another smack on the nose pretty soon after, when he wrongly accused Minty and Hazel of sleeping together, even though there appeared to be some chemistry between the two. He then had a good talk with his mother, before making up with Minty, referring to him as Rocky instead.

Garry has recently been helping Dawn Swann after her ordeal with Rob Minter and May Wright, in which they attempted to steal her unborn baby. Garry took Dawn and Summer on a trip to Brighton where he proposed. She turned him down, but the pair have remained friends, although it is evident he still has feelings for her. When Dawn was on a date with Jase Dyer, Garry came over and suggested Dawn should join him at his table, but when she politely turned the offer down he invited himself to sit at her table with her and Jase. He was clearly bitter towards Jase and was both hurt and annoyed when Jase suggested he and Dawn go somewhere else, which they did. Later Keith and Mickey arrived and told him they were at their house and Jase had bribed them to leave. Garry was devastated.

On 29 August 2008, Garry finds out about Jase's death and tells an excited Dawn the bad news. To her horror, she thought he was trying to stop the wedding but the police also found her and also revealed the tragic news.

After the events of Jase's death, Garry tries to comfort Dawn, but when he comes home - to his horror, she had stripped her clothes off in order to have sex with him, but a tempted Garry turns her down leaving a devastated Dawn.

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