Zeke Kinski

Infobox soap character
colour =Television colour|Neighbours
name = Zeke Kinski

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first = 22 August 2005
Episode 4791
last =
cause =
age = age|1992|3|21
born = 21 March 1992 [Zeke's birthday was celebrated on 21 March 2006]
occupation = Year 11 student at Erinsborough High
spouse =
parents = Alex Kinski (father, deceased)
Francesca Kinski (mother, deceased)

siblings = Katya Kinski (sister)
Rachel Kinski (sister)
children =
portrayer = Matthew Werkmeister
residence = 28 Ramsay Street

Ezekiel 'Zeke' Kinski is a fictional character on the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", and is portrayed by Matthew Werkmeister. He first appeared in late 2005 shortly after his sister, Rachel Kinski (portrayed by Caitlin Stasey) and currently remains on the show.

History

Zeke is the extremely intelligent son of Alex Kinski (Andrew Clarke), and brother of Rachel and Katya (Dichen Lachman). Zeke's father had a Belarus background and his mother Francesca was from Tibet. [ [http://perfectblend.net/neighbourhood/bio/ Neighbours: The Perfect Blend | Character Profiles ] ]

Alex's death

Zeke and Rachel's father, Alex, died of leukemia in December 2005, leaving Zeke and Rachel in the care of Susan (Jackie Woodburne), who Alex had married shortly before his death. Zeke and Rachel currently reside with Susan and Karl Kennedy (Alan Fletcher), Susan's former husband, who she remarried in March 2007.

Bree Timmins

He was Bree Timmins' (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) on/off boyfriend for over a year. They eventually ended their relationship when they realised that they weren't meant to be together. Zeke then started dating Lolly Allen.

Mute phase

After his father's death, Zeke stopped speaking as he thought he killed his father by wishing that he was the one who died instead of his mother, but when his sister was electrocuted by a faulty kitchen appliance, Zeke was forced (after a pause) to speak to an emergency operator and has since resumed speaking as normal.

Lolly Allen

Zeke was dating Lolly Allen (Adelaide Kane) for a short while and was upset when she decided to move back in with her birth father and siblings. They vowed to continue their relationship, however Zeke was dumped by text message just a few weeks later.

Katya

When his sister Katya arrived (just before the death of their father) she took an immediate dislike to Susan. A custody battle ensued, but Susan eventually gave in and allowed Zeke and Rachel to live with Katya. Katya struggled with caring for them and keeping them out of trouble. This resulted in Katya, Zeke and Rachel all moving in with Susan. Katya and Susan, grew closer as a result of this. Zeke tracked down Katya after she fled while on police bail in an attempt to keep Guy away from her family. Katya left the show in January 2007.

Memorable moments

A memorable Zeke moment was in 2006, when he dressed as a girl and became hyperactive from drinking red lemonade, at Rachel's sleepover with Summer Hoyland (Marisa Siketa). Another classic Zeke moment began when his PE teacher Pepper Steiger (Nicky Whelan) started sleepwalking, and while doing this one night approached Zeke and told him that she loved him. Because of this, he thought that she wanted to be with him and tried to impress her by doing things that confused her. At Pepper's engagement party, Zeke announced that the engagement was a sham and that she was in love with him, and he then realised that she wasn't really in love with him. Later that night, Zeke and Rachel discovered that Pepper was sleepwalking. A recent memorable moment was when Zeke accidentally saw Bridget naked in the girls changing rooms. He was terrified that Declan would be angry with him if Declan found out, as he was Bridget's boyfriend. Declan did find out and Zeke ended up naked in front of the school.

Final 2006 episode

In the final episode of 2006, he was held hostage along with Katya, Toadie Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney), Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner), and Charlie Hoyland (Aaron Aulsebrook-Walker) by Guy Sykes (Fletcher Humphrys). Zeke managed to distract Guy by hitting him on the head with something, and Toadie wrestled Guy to the ground as everybody else escaped. Toadie was later shot as he escaped, but survived.

Tom

Karl's father, Tom, moved into the Kinski-Kennedy household. Zeke and Tom bonded after Tom mistook Zeke for Karl due to his dementia. He was upset when it was decided that Tom should live in a home but eventually accepted this after seeing that Tom was much happier with full time care.

Final 2007 episode

In the last 2007 "Neighbours" episode, Zeke was one of the many teenagers trapped at the collapsed warehouse because of an illegal dance party, along with Rachel, Ringo Brown (Sam Clark), Declan Napier (James Sorensen), Bridget Parker (Eloise Mignon), and his new girlfriend Taylah Jordan (Danielle Horvat); however the first episode of 2008 revealed that Zeke (as well as all of the other afore mentioned teenagers) had survived.

Taylah Jordan

Zeke is currently dating Taylah Jordan, Taylah was a friend of Jessica Wallace until Jessica died in the dance party roof collapse, which many of the Ramsay Street teens were involved in. Zeke and Taylah have been taking their relationship slowly until their school camp where they sneaked into a tent together, where they talked about taking it to the next level, but in the end they decided not to. Before Ringo's 18th birthday party, Zeke met Taylah's former boyfriend Chris Knight. He later began to think that she wasn't really into him and tried to drink so she would like him. Although it didn't work especially when Taylah admits that she loves him for who he is.

Taylah and Zeke tried to take their relationship to the next level but it didn't work since Susan walked in on them and when Karl came home, he was shocked to find out what they were up to. They both called Taylah's dad Brad, and he forbade Zeke and Taylah from seeing each other. However,it didn't work as Zeke snuck out to see Taylah and her father walked into her room and saw him there.

When Zeke took Taylah out to spend some time together, she admitted to him that she was with her ex-boyfriend and he made her scared of saying no to having sex. Then when Taylah asked Karl to prescribe her the "pill". her father found out and he informed her that she was going to boarding school in the morning.

At the formal later that night Zeke saw Taylah and she told him that she was leaving, they spend one last night together, which was cut short due to Bridget going missing. Zeke walked Taylah home in the morning and they said goodbye and she turned to walk into the house.

Family

*Alex Kinski (father) (deceased), married to Francesca Sangmu (mother) (deceased) and Susan Smith (stepmother)
**Katya Kinski (sister)
**Rachel Kinski (sister)
**Zeke Kinski
**Malcolm Kennedy (stepbrother), married to Catherine O'Brien (stepsister-in-law)
**Libby Kennedy (stepsister), married to Drew Kirk (stepbrother-in-law) (deceased)
***Ben Kirk (step-nephew)
**Billy Kennedy (stepbrother), has a relationship with Anne Wilkinson
***Jackson Kennedy (stepnephew)
**Holly Hoyland (half-stepsister; via Karl)

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