Jack Osborne is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Jimmy McKenna.
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34 Facts About Jack Osborne
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Jack Osborne first appeared on 18 November 1996 and is the second longest serving character in the serial.
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Jack Osborne was introduced as part of the Osborne family along with son Darren and wife Celia who joined daughter Ruth to live in Hollyoaks village.
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Jack Osborne's storylines have included an affair with Dawn Cunningham, four marriages and an insurance scam which saw him fake his own death.
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Jack Osborne became a police officer in the 1980s and arrested Martin Brownlow, who later died in prison.
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Jack Osborne arrives in Hollyoaks with Celia and Darren, where they join Jack Osborne's daughter Ruth.
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Jack Osborne becomes the landlord of The Dog in the Pond, after Celia's brother Greg, decides to sell up following the death of his daughter Natasha.
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Jack Osborne donates one of his kidneys to the daughter he has never known.
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Jack Osborne tries to explain to Celia, but she ends their marriage and leaves for America with Darren.
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Jack Osborne is then devastated when Jill reveals she has a fatal brain tumour.
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Jack Osborne then agrees to look after her children when she dies.
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When Jill does die, Jack Osborne keeps his promise and cares for her children, helping Sol flee from the police abroad.
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Jack Osborne embarks on several other relationships after Jill, including Geri Hudson's mother Jacqui and Izzy Cornwell's mother Patty.
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Jack Osborne provides a home for the Dean family after their eviction from their home.
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Jack Osborne then begins a relationship with Frankie Dean after the collapse of her marriage to her husband Johnno, and the couple later marry, after five years being a widower following the death of his wife, Jill.
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Jack Osborne goes along with this and his family are horrified at his apparent death.
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Jack Osborne then confesses he is Myra's son and that he is going to kill his family.
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Jack Osborne is then arrested and Darren admits he knew of the fake death.
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Jack Osborne grows depressed, and he does not want to leave the house.
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When Jack Osborne sees that Darren has become close friends with teenager Duncan Button, he realises that he has changed, so decides to reconcile with him and offers him to move in with him, and wants to include Duncan.
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Jack becomes a grandfather when Suzanne Ashworth gives birth to Darren's twins Francine and Jack Osborne, named after Frankie and himself, and Frankie and Jack take in Frankie's granddaughter Esther Bloom and Duncan's sister Ruby Button.
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The Jack Osborne house becomes even more crowded when Darren and his new fiancee Nancy Hayton move in.
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Jack Osborne helps Darren plan a surprise wedding to Nancy which doesn't go according to plan but ends well.
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Jack Osborne helps Darren and Nancy come to terms with Oscar being deaf.
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Jack Osborne then helps Darren, Nancy, Frankie, Callum Kane and Seamus Brady search for Nancy's nephew Charlie when he goes missing and elects to stay with Charlie in the hospital, sending Nancy and Frankie home when they both want to stay.
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In September 2013, Sandy Roscoe who Jack Osborne had had an affair with behind her husband Alan's back, reveals that she is Darren's biological mother and Darren is shocked at the revelation and furious with his father for lying to him for his entire life.
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In 2016, Jack Osborne went to visit his half-brother Billy Brodie in prison, and told him he owed him nothing, but ends up devastated when he passes away, but there was more bad news, when he discovered that Jude Cunningham had arrived back in the village.
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Jack Osborne is shocked when Frankie's ex-husband Johnno returns to the village and invites her to embark on a Cher and Elvis impersonator tour.
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Frankie is torn, feeling unwanted at home and longing for adventure and Jack Osborne eventually gives her an ultimatum, telling her that she should meet him at the school if she chooses him.
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Jack Osborne turns Johnno down but is unaware that Jack has been trapped under rubble following an explosion at the school.
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Jack Osborne survives and is taken to hospital where he is devastated to find out that Frankie had suffered a stroke and died.
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Jack Osborne is visited by Frankie's ghost, who convinces him to go on living.
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Jack Osborne later has a relationship with Breda McQueen, not knowing that she is a serial killer.
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Jack Osborne McKenna has been referred to as the "grandfather of Hollyoaks".
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