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Character Profiles > Callum Jones Morgan Baker

Callum Jones 2008-

With his drug addict mum in hospital, young Callum Jones was cared for by his grandparents. Following the death of his grandfather, Callum's sole carer was his gran, Hilda, who also took on cleaning jobs to pay the bills. Through her job cleaning Charlie's bar, Hilda met Steph Scully, and when Steph's friend Toadie's plans to adopt fell through, she introduced him to young Callum, who needed a male influence in his life. Though Toadie was upset with Steph's interference, he quickly bonded with Callum over their shared love of wrestling. Later that day, as Toadie dropped Callum home and nobody answered the door, they were alarmed to find Hilda collapsed in the back garden, having suffered a stroke. At the hospital, Toadie explained to Callum that his gran would be in hospital for a while, so he'd have to come and stay with him and his housemate Dan Fitzgerald.

Though Toadie was happy to have Callum to stay, work soon took up his time and he was forced to leave his new charge in the care of neighbour Susan Kinski. With Susan having recently suffered an MS relapse, Callum was annoyed at being left with the 'spaco' but, after a firm dressing down from Toadie, he agreed to stay. As a game of Monopoly got underway, Callum became bored and frustrated, so Susan suggested going for a walk, stubbornly deciding not to use her new walking stick. After walking to the park, Susan needed to sit down for a moment but as she rested, she briefly fell asleep and as she regained her composure she realised that Callum had vanished. As she walked across the park looking for him, Susan eventually collapsed and, realising that her phone wasn't in her bag, she struggled to call for help but was then found by her stepchildren Zeke and Rachel. At the hospital, Susan explained what had happened, while Toadie and Steph soon found Callum on the ward where his gran was staying. Toadie took Callum to apologise to Susan, and he then produced her phone, claiming that he'd found it in the park.

A few days later and Callum was claiming to feel too sick to go to school, so Toadie agreed to take him along to work. As Callum became bored and started trashing the office, Toadie took him to the General Store for a milkshake but when Toadie went to take a call, waitress Sienna saw Callum about to swipe her iPod. Though he claimed that he was just looking at it, she still told Toadie, who insisted that she'd probably just got the wrong end of the stick. Later, as Toadie and Callum were playing footy in the park, they were joined by Steph but as she kicked the ball, her phone fell from her back pocket and Callum quickly pocketed it. A few days later, Callum, who continued to complain about being too unwell to go to school, was at the Kennedy house being examined by Susan's doctor husband Karl when Steph's phone started ringing in Callum's bag, where they found dozens of other phones, cameras and MP3 players. Callum then admitted that he'd stolen those things to sell them, as he might need the money when his gran dies, but agreed to give them all back to their owners, if Toadie agreed not to call the police. And Toadie assured him that he wouldn't need a back-up plan, as he'd be there to look after him if anything were to happen to his gran.

When Callum found out that Dan's wife Sam had left town suddenly, he became upset and went on a hunger strike. Steph suggested to Toadie that he should 'accidentally' drop some food as he got back from shopping, a plan which worked. Though Toadie was grateful, Steph's new boyfriend, fireman Jay Duncan grew jealous of the time she was spending with her ex. Callum, however, unaware of the tension, was very taken with Jay and his heroic profession and was delighted when Toadie agreed to join the other volunteers clearing the fire paths in the local bushland. Callum was soon causing chaos when he ran into the path of a falling tree and, as Dan pushed him out of the way, his leg was trapped, but this was the least of their problems when a fire broke out and everyone had to make a quick escape, with Toadie driving Callum and Mickey to safety.

As everyone recovered from recent events, Toadie found a new distraction when Nicola West asked him out on a date. Though it was only a plan to stop Nicola's sister Miranda pestering her about her love life, Toadie and Callum enjoyed having Nicola around. Meanwhile, when a lighter was found in Callum's pocket, he suddenly became the number one suspect for starting the bushfire. Though Callum denied ever having seen it before, Steph and Jay weren't convinced. Later, she visited Toadie to explain the discovery, and he was furious at the implication, telling her that he was certain that Callum would never do such a thing. The next day, Toadie and Callum took their minds of it by using water pistols to paint the shed together and, later, once they'd gone inside, Jay came into the back garden and set the shed on fire. When Callum saw the flames, he grabbed a hose and tried to put them out, but it was too late, and even Toadie started to suspect that his new charge had had something to do with the bushfire. He apologised to Steph for not listening to her concerns, and agreed when Jay suggested that they send Callum along to a Fire Intervention Awareness group. As they left the next day, they were ambushed by a journalist and photographer looking for information and later, Toadie went to the Erinsborough News to ask editor Paul Robinson what he thought he was playing at. He explained to Paul that Callum had been declared extremely unlikely to commit an act of arson, and Paul agreed with this assessment, explaining that he believed the arsonist to be someone in the community, and hoped an article pointing the finger at Callum would flush them out. Though Toadie accepted this, he told Paul that he didn't want this plan to be at Callum's expense, so instead an article was run asking for people with information to come forward, offering a reward.

Toadie soon became suspicious of Jay's odd behaviour once the article was published, and he and Nicola did some research, learning that Jay had been the 'hero' in numerous other fires, and was always pictured with a young, blonde single mum afterwards. Aware that Steph was in danger, they tried to warn her but she refused to listen, instead going away with Jay for a weekend in the country. Fortunately, Toadie managed to find the remote cabin just in time to save Steph, and Callum was impressed with the heroic stories, but Steph was struggling to cope, and so Toadie agreed to stay the night at number 32, along with Callum. That night, Callum went to the kitchen only to find Jay standing there. Though Jay told him everything was fine and to go back to bed, Callum kicked him and ran off to tell Toadie but by the time they returned to the kitchen, there was no sign of the intruder. Toadie was sceptical, but Callum insisted it was true and the next day, dressed in camouflage and went off with neighbour Mickey and 6-year-old Ben, the son of Steph's housemate Libby to guard Ramsay Street, while Steph's 2-year-old, Charlie, hid in a cupboard. The missing boys quickly caused Steph and Libby to panic, though they realised that their reasons had been good ones. Later that day, as Toadie and Callum talked through recent events, Jay broke into number 30 and grabbed some scissors from the kitchen, just as Steph realised that it might be Toadie Jay was looking for, and not her. As Callum left to spend the evening at the Kennedy house, Jay appeared to Toadie, just as Steph burst into the house and a tussle began, with Steph falling victim to the scissors. When news of what had happened got back to everyone, Libby and Callum arrived and learnt that Steph was going to be fine, while Toadie apologised for not believing that Callum had seen Jay in number 32's kitchen.

Though now settled in Ramsay Street, Callum soon had to say goodbye to Mickey, who he'd become good friends with, when Mickey's parents, Kirsten and Ned moved to Perth, where Kirsten required urgent medical treatment. And after a few weeks, Callum set up a webcam, so that Mickey could still see and talk to his friends and family in Erinsborough. He soon found something else to occupy his time though, when Nicola moved into number 30. Callum was delighted to have Toadie's gorgeous friend living under the same roof and did his best to impress her, but he took things a step too far when he snooped on her computer and found some sexy photos of her, which he promptly printed off and showed around the school, only to be caught by his teacher, Kelly Katsis. After a visit at home from Kelly, Toadie and Dan were struggling to find a way to punish Callum without having to explain the birds and the bees to him, but in the end, Sienna Cammeniti stepped in and told him that it was fine to look at pictures of attractive ladies, as long as they weren't private photos, like the ones he took from Nicola, before recommending that he look through the junk mail for ladies' underwear catalogues.

Everyone was concerned when news came through that Mickey, who'd been staying with family in Adelaide, had gone missing. A search began, but Callum seemed oddly unphased, and it emerged that he was hiding his young friend in Ramsay Street. It wasn't long before Dan and Toadie came home as someone ran out of the house, and they forced Callum to admit that it was Mickey. As Mickey disappeared again, Callum found himself being blamed for the situation by everyone around him and decided that he had to find his friend, so he headed off to hand out missing posters. With Toadie and Dan hot on his trail, Callum found Mickey alone in the city and ran after him, but it looked like Mickey didn't want to be found. After finally tracking Mickey down, Callum managed to keep him in one place long enough to raise the alarm with Toadie and Dan, who then arrived to take the boys home. Concerned that he was about to be thrown out, due to all the trouble he'd caused, Callum packed his bags, only to be told by Toadie that everyone made mistakes and he was welcome to stay.

When Nicola was involved in a hit and run accident and left in a coma, Callum was worried for his friend, but looked after her dog, Bronte, who had also been hit by the car but had recovered. When Nicola did wake up, she was apparently suffering from amnesia and unable to remember anyone except her sister Miranda. When Toadie announced that they could go and visit, Callum decided to smuggle Bronte in, but sadly the plan went horribly wrong as the dog leapt up onto the bed to Nicola, who was terrified, unable to remember her friends or her dog.

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Biography by Steve

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