Jake Simmonds
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| Jake Simmonds | |
| Affiliated with | Pete Tyler Mickey Smith The Preachers |
| Race | Human |
| Home planet | Parallel Earth |
| Home era | Early 21st century |
| First appearance | Rise of the Cybermen |
| Last appearance | Doomsday |
| Portrayed by | Andrew Hayden-Smith |
Jake Simmonds is a fictional character played by Andrew Hayden-Smith in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and originates from a parallel Earth.
In Rise of the Cybermen Jake is a member of a resistance group called "the Preachers" along with Ricky Smith and "Mrs Moore". By the time of Doomsday he is in the employ of the parallel Earth version of Pete Tyler.
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Jake is first seen in Rise of the Cybermen, warning people not to be fooled by John Lumic and Cybus Industries. He then mistakes Mickey Smith for his friend and leader, Ricky, Mickey's alternative-universe self. He and Mrs Moore soon find out Mickey's real identity when the real Ricky shows up. Going to a party hosted by Pete Tyler and hoping to find Lumic there, Jake witnesses the coming of the Cybermen and is surrounded, together with the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Pete and Mickey, until the Doctor disintegrates the Cybermen and they are rescued by Mrs Moore.
Jake's loyalty and deep friendship with Ricky becomes apparent in The Age of Steel when Ricky is killed by the Cybermen. Jake initially resents Mickey for surviving the same attack, but grows to accept and respect him after Mickey shows considerable courage and resourcefulness by destroying the transmitter that was keeping every human wearing an EarPod under hypnotic control and then cracking the Cybermen's emotional inhibitor code.
Jake returned in Doomsday, where he, Mickey, Pete Tyler and others found a way through a breach between the two Earths, using technology developed by their world's version of the Torchwood Institute. He aided in the battle against the Daleks and the Cybermen on Rose's Earth before returning to his Earth.
Andrew Hayden-Smith believed that Russell T. Davies intended Jake to be gay.[1] Despite no mention being made of this in the episodes as broadcast, on the Series Two DVD Box Set Deleted Scenes, a deleted scene from the end of The Age of Steel shows Mickey and Jake in the van and when Mickey mentions how he may be different from Ricky, Jake mentions how Ricky was his lover before he died, much to Mickey's shock.
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- ^ Kilkelly, Daniel (May 7th, 2006). Davies wanted 'Doctor Who' gay kiss. digitalspy.co.uk.
