SHADOWS, RICHARD OLLIE

Full name:Richard Ollie Shadows
Age and D.O.B.:42, 16th July
Sexual orientation:Gay
Occupation:Reporter/ Jounralist in the local paper
Member group:Local

Face claim:Richard Z Kruspe
Distinguishing features: wears an ear stud

Likes: Dangerous situations, reporting, being recognised, men, being loved, going on TV, cigarettes, coffee, nights out, cuddling, hugs, his friends, cocaine and night clubs.
Dislikes: Slutty women, his news report being dropped, insults, bullies, cold coffee, having no cigarettes, being rejected, fights, being giving crap reports to do and not having a shower.
Strengths: Confidence, socialising, getting a rooms attention, writing articles, strong will, iron stomach and reporting.
Weaknesses: Nicotine addiction, good looking men, cannot stand rejection, can be emotional and cannot resist a good story - no matter how bad the situation is.
Fears: Losing his job, becoming ugly, no one liking him and being alone.
Habits: Paces a lot, clicks pens, taps pencils, takes cocaine when he needs to stay awake and chewing gum.
Secrets: He will pretend to be interested in women for attention, he is a soppy romantic, ex porn star and his cocaine habit.

Overall Personality: Richard can come across as quite lively and loud, especially when he has had a drug in him or alcohol. He loves to live life to the edge and is always pushing forward taking the dangerous choices in life rather then the safer ones. He is the one who reports outside when there is a tornado and has no fear of doing so. He likes to be heard so is loud and chatty, likes all the attention in the room so sometimes dresses up so he can get that attention, an attention whore is an understatement.

Richard is a soppy romantic and his perfect date is having a meal and watching a film with Mr Right. He is sensitive and obsessive. He clings onto people and sometimes scares them off and gets hurt and when he is hurt he will make a drama out of it, he hates falling in love and then getting dumped. Richard cannot take rejection really well and when he gets rejection he reacts as a child and will throw a tantrum or in a club will throw a drink over you.

Richard will happily do disgusting things for a chance to shine. He does not care what he has to do and it helps with his bravery and iron stomach. If there is a reality TV show he would go on it just to get more popular. He loves his job and is fully dedicated and competitive with it.

Mother:Sally Smith
Father:Christopher Smith
Siblings:N/A
Other:N/A
Pets:A dog named Howard.

Overall History: Richard was born in California to a carpenter and a midwife. His parents were not married when he was born so throughout his school life was called a bastard. Richard loved to show off as a child and his parents noticed how easily he made friends and could make people laugh. Richard often took part of talent shows and did daring things as he loved the attention he received. When he grew up Richard wanted to be an actor, he went to drama school for it. He had a brilliant childhood upbringing and his parents were always there supporting his every move, whether it was a new talent or wanting to play sports.

At 14 Richard was going through a difficult time and became a social recluse, ignoring everything and everyone. His parents noticed he became moodier and much darker, he began to dress in just black and ignore the world. He left drama school to go to a normal school, he kept himself to himself and the parents thought he was getting bullied. This lasted a while until Richard left a letter for his parents when he went for a shower one day confessing being attracted to men and how he found women repulsive when he thought about having sex or looking at them in a sexual matter. His parents fully supported the fact their only child was gay.

Richard still kept himself isolated as he knew his friends would judge him and as soon as he could he left school to continue with a life he didn't know what he wanted to do. At 18 Richard decided to enter the porn industry, he could act and have sex, but first he had to lose his virginity which he ended up doing at a nightclub with a random stranger he could not remember the name of. Richard spent around 10 years within the porn industry, filming from hardcore to soft core porn movies. He loved the attention he received and decided to be a Hollywood journalist.

Richard told his parents during his porn filming he was a extra in Hollywood films so the transition to journalism didn't surprise them. Richard slowly broke his way into the life of a journalist however he did not get a thrill for it and began to film Tornadoes as a hobby and take risks on filming, uploading them to the internet. He soon got a phone call from a news crew in Newport to come join them after an audition. He left Hollywood to head to Newport.

Whilst working in Newport the hours were long and tough, often it meant having a hit of cocaine to deal with the long hours. He was willing to put his health on the line to become one of the best reporters in history. He had been doing stories on the local Asylum as well as interviewing the members of Newport, he also writes news articles in the local paper.He is now openly gay and is a flirt if there is a good looking guy. He got a dog recently because his flat was too lonely.

It was a sunny afternoon in Newport, Richard was sitting in a chair getting his make-up placed on his face, he was getting ready for the camera as he was about to shoot a new article in one of the schools in Newport. He was quite excited as he recently came back from his vacation and couldn't wait to get involved with his job. Richard was told his make up was done and he moved from the chair towards his camera man. He quickly scanned him with his eyes and smiled, "You are kinda cute." He smiled at the man who smiled back. Richard got into the position and made sure the ear piece was correctly in his ear as he was awaiting for the studio to contact him. He smiled and moved his mouth, practising and to pronounce words ready for the TV in Newport.

"Richard you are on in 3, 2, 1." The camera man signalled and made sure his camera was on and running. Richard had his beaming, joyful, professional smile on, he was going to nail this article. He loved being spotted and well known, normally with a successful article this happened.

"Good afternoon Newport. Today we are celebrating another great year at Newport Highschool with grades beating the previous school record. Today we will be interviewing staff and pupils who all seem to be over the moon with the result."