J.T. Yorke
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| James Tiberius Yorke | |
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| Degrassi The Next Generation character | |
| First appearance | Mother and Child Reunion) (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | Rock This Town (episode 6.11) |
| Cause/reason | Murdered (knife punctured aorta) |
| Portrayed by | Ryan Cooley |
| Episode count | 94 |
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| Gender | Male |
| Age | 17 |
| Date of birth | 1989 |
| Date of death | October 2006 |
| Occupation | * Student at Degrassi Community School * Host of children's show |
| Family | Ms. Cooney (Grandmother) |
| Spouse(s) | (ex-girlfriend) Manny Santos (ex-girlfriend) Liberty Van Zandt (girlfriend) Mia Jones* Was girlfriend until he died |
| Children | A Son with Liberty Van Zandt |
James Tiberius "J.T." Yorke (1989-2006) was a fictional character on the TV show Degrassi: The Next Generation who was portrayed by Ryan Cooley.
J.T. lived with his mother and grandmother. When he was young, his father abandoned him and his mother. His mother has never been seen in the series, not even when he was hospitalized. He was stabbed by Drake Lempke, a student at Lakehurst, in the episode "Rock This Town". At the hospital, a nurse told Toby that J.T. had died.
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[edit] Season 1
He was first seen in Mother and Child Reunion Part 1. He introduced his friend Toby from summer camp to his life-long friends Emma Nelson and Manny Santos. In this season he's portrayed as the class clown. His immaturity led him to getting Ashley Kerwin in extreme trouble when he brought an ecstasy tablet to her house party. This season was also the beginning of a crush that Liberty had on him, the girl he was least attracted to at the time. He even pretended to be homosexual just to get her to stop crushing on him.
[edit] Season 2
At the beginning of season two, JT develops a huge crush on Paige Michalchuk and he vows to make her his girlfriend. JT constantly tries to woo Paige, but she constantly insults him and shoots down his advances. However, when Spinner and Hazel offer Paige money to go on a date with JT, Paige accepts the offer. However, Paige has a surprisingly great time with JT on the date. A few seconds later, Spinner and Hazel appear on the scene and gives to Paige the money she earned. JT is angry that Paige only went out with him for money, so Paige walks out on their date. The next day, Paige apologizes to JT, tells him that he'd be her type if he was older, and then kisses him on the cheek, leaving him satisfied. When JT insults her, Liberty Van Zandt uses a red permanent marker to scribble on his locker and several others next to his. That in turn gets him into trouble with Mr. Raditch, the principal. Later when J.T. was about to start cleaning the lockers with a bucket of soapy water and a toothbrush Liberty admitts that she marked on the lockers so that J.T. didn't have to go to private school. At the end of the school day, J.T. calls Liberty "cool". Liberty maintains her crush on him. He proved that he was still the class clown by getting Toby into trouble with Spinner when he bought condoms for Toby to be prepared with Kendra, Toby's girlfriend and Spinner's adopted sister.
JT, among other male students, has a big crush on science teacher, Ms. Hatzilakos. One day, he misbehaves in class, and Ms. Hatzilakos gives him detention. She makes him care for a few guinea pigs, including a pregnant one. However, they develops a student-teacher bond and Ms. Hatzilakos advises JT to stop wasting his intelligence by always being the class clown.
At the end of the school year, JT has every intention on asking Paige to be his date to the year-end dance. However, when he asks Liberty for help on passing the final exams, she only agrees to do so if he takes her to the year-end dance as his date. JT relunctantly agrees and he never gets the chance to ask Paige.
[edit] Season 3
As soon as Manny's plain and innocent style of clothing changes to sexy and trashy, JT starts to look at her in a way he never has before. He and Manny flirt with each other, but he gets his heart broken when she chooses Sully, a popular, upperclassman, over him. After breaking up with Sully, Manny begins a long, wrongful romance with Craig Manning. She and JT don't begin dating until the end of season 3.
Paige, Hazel, Spinner, and Jimmy, four of Degrassi's most popular students, take an interest in JT and befriend him, especially Paige, who gained a ton of respect for JT after he confronted Dean for raping her the previous year. JT and Spinner had a brief, minor feud that was quickly resolved. Toby, however, was still considered an unpopular nerd and JT seemed to be ditching him. To pay JT back, Toby reveals an embarrassing secret to JT's new friends...he had a wet dream about Liberty. They quickly make up and remain best friends in the end. Also that year JT did a commercial but it was childish, causing him to receive the wrong kind of attention.
Towards the end of season 3, JT wants to ask Manny to the semi-formal. With encouragement from Liberty, who had dismissed her three-year crush on him once she found a love of her own, JT decides to ask Manny out. However, when he sees her talking to Craig, he jumps to the conclusion that she's trying to reconcile with him. Manny gets angry with JT for making such an assumption, but she forgives him the following day and accepts his invitation to the semi-formal as his date.
[edit] Season 4
J.T. is now going out with Manny, but there appears to be a lack of chemistry. Manny is turned off by his immature ways such as farting and acting like a clown. Liberty hosts a little get-together in her backyard, chatting, sipping lemonade, and relaxing in the hot tub. As a joke, Danny, Liberty's brother, pulls J.T.'s trunks down, revealing his private parts. J.T. is embarrassed and Manny is surprised. After seeing Craig's penis in the locker room, J.T feels inadequate. Danny and Toby help him get a penis pump and J.T decides to use it when he plans to have sex with Manny that night (coincidentally, the same night she planned to break up with J.T. for being on a different maturity level than her). Manny catches him using it, and she dumps J.T. the following day for being so immature.
Since Toby was friends with Rick, J.T. starts being mean to Toby for being his friend and hangs out with Danny. When Toby tells Manny about J.T., she tells him that she remembers why they broke up because he couldn't be the bigger man. J.T. then later apologizes to Toby at Rick's funeral. When J.T. and Liberty work on a school play inspired by the school shooting episodes earlier, he realizes how blind he was for all of those years and he finally returns her love when they shared a kiss in detention. They continue going out throughout Season 5.
[edit] Season 5
After dating Liberty for several months, Liberty learned that she is pregnant and J.T. was the father. J.T. soon broke up with Liberty, because she was too controlling on a job that he needed to take. J.T. decided not to abandon Liberty, because his own father abandoned him. J.T. and Liberty both tell J.T.'s grandmother, who did not take the news well and questions if he will be like his father, they also told Liberty's parents and they said she should stay with them and forget J.T., or they find their own place. Liberty wanted to stay with J.T. He got multiple jobs, including being a clerk at a drug store and being "PJ J.T." and Counter Boy, a host of a kid's television show which he soon quits because there is no payment. Even with all the jobs, J.T. couldn't afford an apartment that he and Liberty were trying to buy, so with the advice from Jay Hogart, J.T. decided to sell oxycodone to a drug dealer. When Liberty found out, she hit J.T. and told him to return the drugs and confess. While trying to get the drugs back, J.T. was attacked by the drug dealer he had been supplying the pills to. When J.T. went to give the dealer the pills, he took a handful of the oxycodone pills for himself and overdosed. While in the hospital, Liberty questioned his reasons for attempting suicide and decided to put the baby up for adoption. From then on, Liberty avoided J.T., and he was only able to see his child for a brief time after he was born.
[edit] Season 6
In his senior year of high school at Degrassi, J.T. decided to date 16-year old single mother, Mia Jones. After finding out about her child, he then took back his old TV job to get her attention and to spite Liberty who wouldn't pay attention to him. It worked, and the two began to date. Doing this caused his ex-girlfriend Liberty to become jealous and angry with him.
In the episode Eyes Without a Face, Pt. 1 Liberty started to show a vibe of jealousy when she saw her ex, J.T. asking Mia out for ice cream with Mia's daughter, Isabella. Her jealousy over Mia and J.T. escalated when Liberty told Mia all of J.T.'s dark secrets, jeopardizing their relationship. During a Student Council meeting, she turned down J.T.'s idea of having a daycare at Degrassi without even hearing J.T.'s pitch, saying that it would only benefit his girlfriend. Mia stood up and said she wasn't alone. J.T. finally lashed out at her telling that she was being selfish, reminding her that he supported her throughout her entire pregnancy even when she gave up the baby that was also his, and accused her of wanting J.T. to be as miserable as she is.
J.T. ended up in a serious rivalry with Lakehurst after his brief, yet violent confrontation with a Lakehurst student, Nic. As the tension mounted, J.T. agreed to a street fight with them and convinced Derek, Danny, Peter and others to join in the fight. Toby refused to participate, and begged J.T. not to do it. Mia arrived before the Lakehurst gang and convinced J.T. and friends to leave. When J.T. didn't show up, however, Nic and his thugs found Toby and beat him up, which left him wearing a cast on his arm and a neck brace. J.T. is shocked and ashamed about what happened. He angrily states that he wants payback for what they did to Toby, but Toby pleads with him not to pursue the rivalry any further. J.T. reluctantly lets it go.
In the episode Rock This Town, Emma and Manny hold a birthday party for Liberty at Emma's house. J.T. later talks with Toby about his cravings for both a meatball sub (Mia) and a bowl of oatmeal (Liberty). Toby says that Mia is a good person but Liberty has always been there for him.
He goes outside to attempt to find Liberty only to find two Lakehurst boys. Drake and Johnny. Johnny is peeing on J.T.'s car. J.T. remarks that he couldn't find a toliet, to which Drake replied he did. J.T. sarcastically replies, "You guys slay me with your humor" For no apparent reason Drake pulls a switchblade knife out and runs up to J.T. and stabs him in the back. The boys panic and run off.
Liberty sees them running and goes up to J.T. and finds that he has been stabbed. She panics and screams out for help.
Later at the hospital Sean, Emma, Manny, and Toby are awaiting news. A nurse asks to see a family member to which Toby says that he's J.T's brother. The nurse tells him that his aorta was punctured beyond repair and that he didn't make it.
Liberty comes up and wants to know what happened. The others tearfully embrace her.
[edit] Relationships
- Manny Santos
- Start Up: "Our House" (321)
- Broke Up: "Mercy Street" (404)
- Reason: Manny believes J.T. is too immature.
- Liberty van Zandt
- First Relationship
- Start Up: "Voices Carry, Part 2" (412)
- Broke Up: "Foolin'" (504)
- Reason: J.T. believes Liberty is too controlling.
- Second Relationship
- Start Up: "Turned Out, Part 1" (507)
- Broke Up: "Turned Out, Part 2" (508)
- Reason: J.T. sold prescription drugs from his job in order to support the baby, then attempts suicide by overdosing.
- First Relationship
- Mia Jones
- Start Up: "Eyes Without a Face, Part 1" (605)
- Ends: "Rock This Town" (611)
- Reason: J.T.'s death.
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