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Guest Character Profiles > Clint Hendry Jason Wilder

After splitting up with fiancé Mike, who she'd previously dated as a teenager, then also having romantic encounters with exes Victor and Shane, Jane Harris realised that, although she wanted to find love again, she needed to stop revisiting the past. She decided to join some dating apps, eventually getting chatting to a man named Clint, who seemed to share many of her values and interests, including a love of classic literature. As the app didn't include photographs, Jane was encouraged by her daughter, Nicolette, to meet Clint face-to-face early on, to avoid getting too invested in a man who she ultimately didn't feel attracted to. When Clint suggested meeting for a drink, Jane decided to bite the bullet and go for it, but was shocked when the man who arrived was much younger than her. Clint quickly pointed out that Jane hadn't put an age range on her bio and eventually persuaded her to stay for a drink so that they could at least get to know each other. Realising that he was genuine, Jane shared a bottle of wine with Clint and they chatted about, amongst other things, Charles Dickens, but Jane was still uncomfortable with the age difference and made her excuses to leave.

As Clint sent her messages asking if she'd like to see him again, Jane was reluctant. Her mind was soon changed, however, when she spoke to son Byron, who was about the same age as Clint, and who immediately suggested that it might be a scam, as someone like Clint couldn't possibly be interested in Jane otherwise. Offended by this, Jane arranged to meet Clint for lunch, battling nerves and a busy day at work at the school to be there. Just as their lunch was beginning, Byron happened to walk in and accepted when Clint asked him to join them. Jane was then left feeling very awkward as Byron and Clint got on like a house on fire, with their conversation dominating the date. To make matters even more awkward, as Jane returned to work that afternoon, she was surprised to learn that Clint was the school's new cleaner. Jane immediately felt that it wasn't going to work and so, the next day, she asked Clint to come and see her, where she explained that they could no longer see each other. She told him that, as school principal, she couldn't be involved with one of her employees, also asking that he only take evening shifts when cleaning the school, so that they didn't have to see each other. Though deeply disappointed, Clint understood that she wasn't going to change her mind but Jane was then shocked to find that he'd taken on work cleaning Eirini Rising, the retirement home that adjoined the school.

Matters only got more complicated when one of the school cleaners called in sick and Clint had to fill in, leaving Jane constantly feeling flustered as she saw him around the building. As Clint tried to get her to talk to him, she refused, wanting to keep things professional, but he soon noticed her secretly watching as he went about his work. After some of the Eirini Rising residents got into an argument, with Vera and Gino ogling Clint, and another resident, Moira, feeling that it was inappropriate, Vera asked Clint what he thought. He told her that he didn't mind, at which point Vera told Moira that, as they were all consenting adults, then it was nobody else's business. Having heard this, Jane decided to throw caution to the wind and, later that night, headed to Eirini and found Clint, who told her that one of the apartments was empty, at which point she followed him into the building.

Though Jane and Clint were very happy after sleeping together, and he left her a copy of Lady Chatterly's Lover the next day with a note arranging to meet again, their tryst soon had consequences for Eirini Rising when several bottles of floor cleaner were stolen. Clint quickly realised that, in his rush to be with Jane, he'd forgotten to lock the store room. This, coupled with Terese receiving complaints from the Eirini residents about noises coming from the vacant apartment 304, made Jane and Clint realise that they would need to consider finding somewhere else to meet up. Things only became more awkward when a used condom was found in apartment 304 and, as Terese, Vera and Moira tried to work out who could be responsible, a guilty Clint was called in to clean up. When Terese then called on Jane too, in case students were involved, she and Clint realised that they were going to have to be a lot more careful if they wanted to keep their relationship a secret.

Having worked out that Jane and Clint were struggling to get time alone together, Aaron Brennan - who co-parented Jane's granddaughter, Isla - told Jane that their house would be empty that afternoon. Unfortunately, the pair were soon interrupted when Terese spotted them arriving and joined them, believing that they were brainstorming ideas over who had been stealing, both from Eirini and now also from the school. With both Aaron and Terese privately mentioning to Jane that it could be Clint, she defended him, sure that he would never do something like that. When Terese then mentioned that she'd spotted student Jasmine Stewart, who had a history of troublemaking, on the grounds one evening, they wondered if they'd found their thief. However, after finding out that Jasmine had actually been helping resident Elenora, who spoke little English, to win money at gambling, Jane accused her of exploiting the elderly lady. Jasmine then turned on Jane, calling her a hypocrite and saying that she'd seen her kissing Clint. Terese was horrified as she realised what had been going on, and who was responsible for the condom left in apartment 304, and decided that she had to fire Clint. This decision caused a huge argument between Terese and Jane, with Jane bitterly pointing out that Terese had made some terrible decisions of her own, including driving whilst drunk and causing a gas leak at Eirini.

Episodes Featured
9177, 9178, 9181, 9182, 9186, 9187, 9188, 9190, 9191, 9193, 9194, 9195

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