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Character
Profile
 Tinhead made his first appearance in
Brookside as a school bully at Brookside Comprehensive in
1996. Danny Simpson was Tinead’s main target, as he tried to
bully him into helping him with his schoolwork. Tinhead was
the leader of a gang of boys who continued to terrorise
other pupils despite protests made to the headteacher by
their parents.
One day Danny gave Tinhead some
schoolwork knowing that he was going to take the credit for
it, but Danny deliberately made the project complete
nonsense so Tinhead was made to look a fool in front of his
classmates. Tinhead decided to teach Danny a lesson, so
after school he chased Danny and his mate Leo intending to
give Danny a good beating, but when he escaped it was Leo
who was left battered and bruised.
Leo tried later to become part
of Tnhead’s gang by helping him steal a computer from the
Simpson’s house on Brookside Close.
Mick Johnson, Leo’s dad tried to
get Tinhead expelled from school for bullying but came
across an unexpected problem when he discovered that
Tinhead’s mother Carmel O’Leary was one of the school
govenors. Carmel refused to believe that her son was the
ring leader of the gang of bullies.
 Sinbad later became involved in a relationship
with Carmel and did his best to help her to try to get
Tinhead to change his ways. Tinhead had other ideas and took
every opportunity to try and cause trouble between them.
Jimmy Corkhill also had a run in with Tinhead when he
discovered that he was responsible for bringing alcohol into
the youth club .
As tension in the O’Leary house
continued to mount with Tinhead and Sinbad still at
loggerheads, Tinhead left home having decided to squat in
the flat above Mick Johnson’s Pizza Parlour. While there he
thought he could  make some easy money by selling the washing
machine that was in the flat. Tinhead’s plan backfired when
he tried to remove the machine without turning off the water
supply which resulted in him flooding the flat and causing
extensive damage to Mick’s shop below. Both Mick and Sinbad
suspected that Tinhead was involved but Carmel refused to
believe he was the culprit.
In an effort to make Tinhead a
more responsible person Sinbad convinced David Crosby to
give him a job at the petrol station, but it’s not long
before Tinhead, who resented being made to work, caused
trouble when he put diesel in Ron Dixon’s petrol car.
Tinhead only started to see the
error of his ways when he nearly killed his younger sister.
While playing with fireworks he caused a lorry to swerve,
and crash into his house where his sister Melanie was
sitting watching television, luckily she was not badly hurt.
After this incident Tinhead had
a change of attitude and with encouragement from Sinbad
tried to join the Army. Tinhead passed the entrance
interview and test with flying colours and really looked
forward to life in the army, but was very disappointed when
he arrived at the training camp only to be told that he
could not join the Army after all because of a problem with
his hearing.
 After
this setback Tinhead refused to go out the for weeks feeling
very dejected, until he found employment at a builders yard.
It was not long before he was up to his old tricks, making
money by selling building materials direct to customers and
pocketing the cash.
The bad feeling between Tinhead
and Sinbad got worse after Sinbad was found to be partly
responsible for a explosion at Brookside Parade which
resulted in Tinhead’s brother Ben being crippled for life.
Despite Ben not blaming Sinbad for his injuries, Tinhead
could not forgive him and started to seek revenge.
 After trying unsuccessfully to run him down in a
stolen car Tinhead eventually corners Sinbad near the edge
of a lake, with nowhere to run Tinhead bore down on him in
the car, but Sinbad jumps out the way just in time. Tinhead
unable to stop, ends up in the lake and as the car sinks out
of sight Sinbad dives in the lake and pulls Tinhead clear of
the car.
Even after Sinbad had saved his
life Tinhead still refused to be friends until Ben finally
managed to convince him that he should not blame Sinbad for
what had happened to him.
When Sinbad offered to let him
stay with him in Brookside Close, Tinhead agreed to put the
past behind him and make a fresh start. To help him achieve
this Sinbad persuaded Mick Johnson to give Tinhead a job at
his chip shop.
Actor Profile Philip
Oliver
 Tinheads real name is Philip Oliver. Philip was
born in Liverpool and is half French half Maltese. He is 18
years old and comes from a large family with five brothers
and Sisters ranging in age from one to Twenty Two.
Philip has always wanted to work
on Brookside and remembers watching the actors while they
were filming when he was younger, as he used to live only a
few minutes away from Brookside Close.
His school life got of to a
rough start with many of his school reports saying that he
was the joker in class, would never stop talking and spent
most of his time thinking about other things. However his
exam results proved the teachers wrong after they estimated
he would only get a D for Spanish and instead he got an A.
Meaning Spanish and Maths were his favourite subjects. The
reason he did so well in Spanish was because he used to
travel to Spain every year, While in times of trouble he
would turn to his mum for support.
His first job was working in the
Retail industry self employed using a garden shed as a sweet
shop which he called “The Sweet Tooth”. This business
venture proved to be popular with the local residents and
turned out to be a great way of earning money.
In his spare time Philip does a
bit of DJing and would like to take this interest further,
his favourite programmes are Friends, The Simpsons and the
film The Full Monty. Also the first car he owned was a BMW.
Philip is crazy about Football
and loves reading Footie magazines, playing it and watching
it almost anything to do with the sport. Lastly his
favourite football team is Liverpool.
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