JJ Jones (Skins)

Jonah Jeremiah "JJ" Jones is a fictional character from the British TV series Skins. He is played by the actor Ollie Barbieri.

Characterisation

JJ is quite self-concious and nervous in his own skin, especially around girls, so much so that he finds it hard to communicate with them on a confident level and in-turn resorts to his love of magic tricks in order to impress people. The friends he does have however are Freddie Mclair and James Cook, whom he considers his best friends and is extremely loyal to, so this only further affects him after Freddie and Cook have a falling out. Because of his shy nature, his opinion is frequently over-looked and ignored by his friends who are much more out-going and loud than JJ, he is also bossed around a lot too, this is evident when in JJ's centric episode his is told by Freddie that he must choose between himself and Cook. He suffers from a form of Autism and because of this, in the past he has referred to himself as 'not normal' during a conversation with Emily Fitch, who he discovers goes to the same psychiatric clinic as him. After this, he and Emily spend a bit more time together, developing a friendship, eventually leading to JJ losing his virginity to her, but only as a "One-time" offer on the basis of Emily being a lesbian.