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Jonah originally was scripted to die in the Swimming pool in Series 7

posted 11 years ago by johnremington90
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Basically the whole Jeremy Irvine storyline was meant for Jonah. The original script had Jonah as the one who was becoming more abrasive and show offey with the others and ended up dying at the bottom of the swimming pool

But Lee Sparke's mum and lee himself didn't like the storyline and didn't think it a fair ending for his character so they declined to sign a contract for Series 7

So the script writers had to find a solution so they bought in the character of Jeremy irvine, briefly introduced as Jonah's cousin in Series 6 and he took over the storylines meant for Jonah in Series 7

Imagine the impact if it was Jonah who died in the swimming pool !

Anyway thought everyone might not know this :)

[–] thunderultrazord 10 years ago

Well I've more or less thought up a fanfic in my mind which takes place in Series 9 and 10, I chose these series because I thought it was only fair to bring him back for Zammo's drug storyline, seeing his old pal hitting an all time low and that and also so he can be there for the Series 5 first years' final year and in a nut shell it goes like this...

Jonah arrives back in London from Wales and moves in with Zammo and his mum to help her pay the bills and so takes up a job delivering pizzas and buy's Zammo's moped off him to do it, Basically it's him who gets hit by Zammo in the locker room instead of Kevin because he tries to get him to come to his senses etc.