Toby Mills
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Tobias "Toby" Mills was a fictional character on the long-running British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
He was played by actor Henry Luxemburg between 2001-2003).
[edit] Character History
Toby was introduced as Dan Hunter’s best friend and immediately the pair caused trouble when they got arrested, after having a fight outside The Dog with Adam Morgan and Jamie Nash.
Toby moved to Hollyoaks to help the Hunter family search for Ellie, when she went missing in Ibiza. He started working at The Dog with Izzy Cornwell and also moved in there too. Toby was than shocked when Ellie finally had returned to Hollyoaks, but was relived forthe Hunters and than Toby had been warned by Ellie that he may have gonorrhoea as Toby had contact with Ellie whilst she was away and they had slept together.
Ellie could not keep her mouth shut and she ended up telling Dan and Les. Toby got punched by the pair and was devastated by Ellie’s actions. Toby soon made up with Dan after apologising but keept his distance from Ellie. Toby began dating Mandy Richardson, but that fizzles out when Toby claimed that she is too over protective.
Whilst, Toby had been working, he dropped out at collage, and begins to work extra shifts at The Loft. However, Ellie was the manager at The Loft, and Dan told Toby that he shouldn't let Ellie get to him. With Ellie flirting with The Loft’s boss Scott Anderson, Toby couldn't help being jealous.
Toby soon discovered that Ellie parents chucked her out and he offered her a place to stay at The Dog with him, as the pair began to date again. Toby still disliked Ellie working for Scott, but soon Scott sacked her and Toby also quit his job at the Loft. Toby’s mum Linda arrived, and she caused a stir between his relationship with Ellie. Ellie put Toby under pressure, when she gave him the option to choose between her or his mother. Toby made a difficult decision, and decided it was Ellie who he wanted to be with and he told his mother that he had enough of her interfering.
Toby was than worried when Ellie decided to go on a Big Brother reality TV programme called the Fish Tank, and Toby made her promise not to flirt with any guys in there. During Ellie’s experience of The Fish Tank, rumours started to spread around the village that Ellie had slept with someone. Toby became angery by Ellie’s actions and was frustrated that Ellie had not kept her promise. Toby demanded Chloe Bruce allow Ellie to get out of the Fish Tank, otherwise his relationship was over with her. Ellie was allowed out for an hour, and Toby told her that he was getting impatient and angery by Ellie’s lies. Ellie got upset aboyt how little Toby thought of her, and told him that she slept with everyone.
Toby then murdered Roxy at the River Dee. Accordingly, Mills is unwilling to take any responsibility for his monstrous action and he went home and looked into a mirror and, seemingly, argued with himself, saying "That wasn't me - someone else did that" and "Toby is a good boy."
The next few days Toby felt guilty and even more when Ellie returned and convinced him to give their relationship one last try. A week later, Dan told Toby that he had slept with Roxy, and the police had found Roxy’s body. The blame on Roxy’s death went to Toby’s best friend Dan after he slept with her, hours after she was murdered. Toby best friend and Ellie’s brother Dan had been arrested, but with the help of Toby’s guilt, Toby provided Dan with a good solicitor as Dan had been soon released. But there was not much evidence against Dan and he was released.
However, things got from bad to worse for Toby when his mother returned and stirred up Toby’s relationship trying to convince him that Ellie was cheating on him. In anger, he stuck again this time on teenager Steph Dean leaving her there for dead but he was followed and witness by his mother Linda. After a confrontation with his mother, Toby lashed out pushing her off the stairs. This had left Toby astonished of what he done and when Ellie arrived, the pair managed to make the incident look more like an accident. When the police arrived they told Toby that Linda was dead and further bad news for Toby was that Steph Dean was alive but has forget her memory. Toby was left scared with the truth being discovered and guilty after Steph had a life illness coping with epilepsy.
He then killed around 11 more blond girls between July 2002 and October 2003. In order for Toby to stop killing these girls, he need Ellie to be more committed to him and decided to get married to her. Ellie was delighted as the pair got married in a low profile wedding without inviting Ellie’s parents to the wedding. However this was not the solution to Toby’s problems when Steph continued to make progress and it was only a matter of time she got her memory back.
Eventually, Toby confessed to Ellie leaving her frightened and afraid of his next actions. Toby was also scared whether Ellie would tell the police or her family and managed to keep her locked in their flat not even allowing her to go work.
In the late-night special Hollyoaks: Leap of Faith, Ellie could no longer cope with Toby and ran off to Liverpool, with Toby following her. Ellie confronted him and Toby promised that he would hand himself in, but he just wanted to enjoy his last few hours with her. After the hours went by, Toby caught Ellie trying to get in contact with her brother making Toby furious. Toby decided to have a test with Ellie whether their love could survive anything, and suggested he and Ellie jump the roof of one buliding to another. Ellie, however was concerned as Toby continued to get aggressive and brother Dan turned up and witnessed Toby harming Ellie. To the rescue, Dan managed to push Toby of the building as he landed straight down and was hit by a car. All this was witnessed by many people, including Ellie’s sister Lisa.
Finally the serial killer, which left many residents in the village afraid, was dead. Despite the serial killer’s attacking blonde girls was over, but Toby’s death opened a new dramatic chapter for Dan and the Hunter family.
