Justin has a passionate nature, but he’s a misguided kid and has made some dramatic mistakes with both his love affairs and his friendships.
2003 Mum Liz moves him and sister Sophie to the village to be with Sophie’s twin Mel, who has just started college.
2004 Falls behind at school and gets extra tuition from sexy young teacher Becca Hayton. Discovers his late father committed suicide and goes off the rails. Drunkenly pushes stepsister Darlene through a window and is sent to teen boot camp.
2005 Becomes obsessed with Becca and kisses her. Banged up when he’s wrongly accused of fatally stabbing his stepbrother Ali Burton. Becca supports him in court and he’s found not guilty. Seduces Becca at Christmas.
2006 Word of their affair gets out. Becca is pregnant but unsure whether Justin or her husband Jake Dean is the father. Justin proposes but Becca breaks things off. Justin takes revenge by falsely reporting Becca for bedding him when he was underage and Becca is sent to prison. Sleeps with schoolgirl Sasha Valentine.
2007 Becca gives birth to baby Charlie, but Jake claims paternity. Becca is fatally stabbed in prison just as Justin is about to confess to his false claim. Starts working for dodgy club owner Warren Fox who forces him to help bury his murder victim Sean Kennedy. Sleeps with Max Cunningham’s devious ex Clare and later nearly kills her after pushing her off a balcony. Falls for Warren’s sister Katy.
2008 Discover he’s Charlie’s dad when Charlie suffers from leukaemia. Charlie is successfully treated, but the stress splits him up from Katy. Warren forces him to convince the by now psychiatric patient Jake to take the rap for Sean’s murder by offering to back Jake’s mum Frankie’s fight for custody of Charlie.
Chris was born in Bradford West Yorkshire on 3 September, 1987 and grew up with his single mum Lynda in the Wibsey area of the city. Chris joined the Buttershaw St Paul’s am-dram society when he was just six and caught the acting bug, later attending drama classes at the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop in Bury, Lancashire and studying drama at Intake High School in Leeds.
As well as being an accomplished actor, Chris has also dabbled in music and he plays the drums and was also in a boyband called Nau-T when he was a teenager. Before starring as Justin in Hollyoaks, Chris appeared in several TV shows, including The Royal, Burn It, Where the Heart Is, Blood Strangers and Bob & Rose. Chris has also appeared in musical theatre and starred as La Gavroche in Les Miserables and the Artful Dodger in Oliver! at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre.
In 2006 he was teamed up with former S-Club singer Jo O’Meara for the celebrity singing show Just the Two of Us and he also showed off his ice-skating skills in the third series of ITV1’s Dancing On Ice competition, coming second to former Hear’Say singer Suzanne Shaw.
Chris, who has a house in the West Derby area of Liverpool, won the best actor gong at the British Soap Awards in 2008 and has been nominated in the ‘sexiest male’ category several years running. His mum Lynda now runs his fan club from her Bradford home.
