Gaz Bennett is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Joel Goonan.
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Gaz Bennett debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 25 November 2008.
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Gaz Bennett is introduced as the leader of a racist hoodie gang.
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Gaz Bennett has already shown his hatred of black, Asian and bisexual characters including Ash Roy, Anita Roy, Ravi Roy, Lauren Valentine and Calvin Valentine.
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Gaz Bennett knows he can bully her and she'll be too scared to do anything back to him.
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Gaz Bennett first appears as a student at Hollyoaks High School, and he begins work experience at take-away Relish.
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Gaz Bennett starts harassing Theresa McQueen, and is warned off by Russ, Jacqui McQueen and Tony Hutchinson.
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Gaz Bennett tempts former drug-addict Sasha Valentine into smoking cannabis.
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Gaz Bennett then begins beating himself up, making it look like it is Zak and Ash.
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Gaz Bennett is then expelled from school after his racist bullying of Anita.
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Gaz Bennett then helps Anita after she is threatened by her enemy, Lauren.
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Gaz Bennett then begins sleeping in the school, where Barry Newton, Anita and Lauren find him.
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Gaz Bennett then falls into a coma and later pretends to suffer from amnesia as to what had happened.
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Gaz Bennett's relationship develops even further and they both plan to steal Spencer Gray's inheritance.
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Everyone is starting to believe that Gaz Bennett is the father, unaware that Lauren had made the whole thing up.
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Gaz Bennett follows Des' advice and takes Theresa's mobile phone and texts Anita to meet in the woods.
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However, when Gaz Bennett looks into his bag, he finds a gun that Anita had found earlier, planted by Jacqui.
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Gaz Bennett is then subsequently charged with the murder of Calvin as the gun he was holding was actually used to shoot Calvin.
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Gaz Bennett assumed that she supported him and that she still loved him, but when Lauren gets strangely quiet he soon realised that she doesn't.
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Gaz Bennett walked away and leaves him, leading prison guards to restrain him when he was about to get out of control.
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Gaz Bennett later gets a job in The Dog in the Pond pub by owner Heidi Costello and later finds her upset where they end up kissing.
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