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Sugar, real name Maria Sweet, is a typical British teenager into drink, going out, sex and guys, as well as Kim's best friend. She is one of those people who love life and can get anything they want. Sexy and sassy, not to mention clued up, she is a bit of a bad influence on Kim, getting her mixed up in all kinds of things, and getting them both into situations. Sugar has an addictively electric personality that attracts people, especially Kim, to the point of obsession. She represents that one person in a person's life that was always unreachable, the one whom they always wanted but could never quite build up the courage to try and talk to, or ask out. The person that people would dream about night after night and stare at for hours from distance. However she seems to constantly tease Kim, with little glimmers of hope that she might just feel the same. In Series 2, Sugar is incarcerated in prison and we see a more humane side of her when she tells Kim that she feels really lonely and that Kim is the only person in her life who hasn't abandoned her since she has been imprisoned. It seems that she slept with her female prison governor to have her sentence reduced and in the third episode of the second series, Sugar is finally released from prison.

Kim is fifteen at the beginning of the first series and sexually obsessed with her best friend Sugar and she desperately tries throughout the series to understand her own feelings. She is prepared to do anything as long as it involves Sugar and is trying to deal with the discovery of sex, love, lies, drugs and obsession

Stella is married to Nathan and mother to Kim and Matt, not that she really believes it. Stella appears not to have ever really grown up and refuses to take on the responsibilities of parenthood, or adulthood. Stella spends her time trying to enjoy the freedoms of life as if she was Kim's age, and would like to believe that she is Kim's sister rather than her mum (perfectly represented when she wanted to borrow Kim's jeans to go and see Dale).
She spends a lot of her time trying to cover the tracks of her extra marital activities from Nathan, who she still loves, but as she says, 'when you've had two kids and you've been living with the same man for 15 years the sex isn't that great'

Nathan is described by Kim as 'half man, half pinny'. Nathan is trying to be a good father but is completely ignorant of anything going on around him especially when it comes to his family. He appears to live life in his own dream world where his family is perfect, his wife is faithful, his son is normal, his daughter is straight and doing well at school, and Brighton is the perfect escape from London.
Nathan has grown into an adult without realising, and has slowly become completely un-exciting; all the things you see in your parents and adamantly believe you will never be like when you grow up.
He has very nearly 'tidied himself out of a marriage', and doesn't have much luck when he decides to try and spice things up, his dessert idea sent Stella to hospital.

Matt is Kim's confused and alienated younger brother who believes he is from a different planet. Matt is desperate for attention from his parents and others, and goes to extreme lengths to get noticed, even to the point of turning everything he owns blue including himself and his guinea pig.
As far as Kim is concerned, Matt is just her brother who wanders round with a goldfish bowl on his head. He completes a remarkable transformation into a goth for series two. He currently is experimenting with cross-dressing, one episode featured him borrowing Stella's underwear. In another episode Kim bribed him to stay in the house while she left to visit Saint while she was babysitting him by trading her lip-glosses for his silence.