Skins is ten years old today. You heard that right. You're old AF. To celebrate, the heat office is spending the day discussing just how much we lurrrve and miss Skins and all of its characters. This is something we do quite often, tbh, but today we actually have an excuse.
So we decided to create a 100% scientific and completely indisputable and objective (actually just based on our opinion) ranking of all the main characters.
NB: You will find absolutely no-one from generation three. We don’t count that as Skins.
20 - Sketch (first generation)
Erm. Yeah.
19 - JJ Jones (second generation)
Anyone else skip over JJ's episodes when watching on Netflix cos they're so RIDICULOUSLY BORING?
18 - Pandora Moon (second generation)
If we hear Pandora say "surf and turf" ONE MORE TIME.
17 - Michelle Richardson (first generation)
Michelle was just a bit meh, wasn't she?
16 - Jal Fazer (first generation)
So was Jal. And her clarinet. She was bloody fantastic at Chris' funeral, though. We'll give her that.
15 – Emily Fitch (second generation)
Watching Emily's development from the shy twin overshadowed by her sister to the confident, outgoing gal with the guts to be herself in series four was a highlight of generation two.
14 – Cassie Ainsworth (first generation)
Yeah, Cassie was a bit silly and unrealistic, but we liked her all the same.
13 - Thomas Thomone
Ever since Thomas ate those hot chillis to save Cook and his friends from Gareth from The Office, we've been very much in love.
12 - Abigail Stock
"I'll kill you, you fucking flat-chested cock sucking spastic horse fucker!" Enough said.
11 – Maxxie Oliver
Anyone else obsessively Google whether or not Maxxie was gay in real life after seeing him with no shirt at the start of season two and then get excited when it turned out he had a girlfriend cos it meant we had a chance?
10 – Posh Kenneth
Posh Kenneth was hands down the best secondary character of anything ever (followed by Abigail). Why was he there? Where did he come from? Whose idea was he? We have no idea the answers to any of these questions, but he was ruddy fantastic.
9 – Anwar Kharrel
Yesterday, Anwar from Skins literally got nominated for an Oscar. Which we actually shed a tear over because WE LOVE ANWAR SO MUCH AND HE'S ALL GROWN UP AND STARRING IN PROPER FILMS THAT WIN OSCARS.
8 - Katie Fitch
Katie Fitch went from being a slightly boring, slightly annoying and slightly horrible twin of Emily's in the third season to absolute QUEEN of sass in the fourth. She's Katie Fucking Fitch who the fuck are you? Yup. Queen.
7 – Freddie McLair
As his father said, pretty much all Freddie did was "skate around. Just fucking skate around," but Freddie is 100% in our top three of best Skins fitlords and was absolutely wasted on Effy.
6 – Naomi Campbell
We fell in love with Naomi and her total DGAF attitude. One of the few girls in the series we actually kinda aspired to be like. (Jal and Michelle were extremely irritating, we can probably all agree).
5 – Sid Jenkins
We'll always have a place for Sid in our hearts because he is literally us in every way. We all have a friend like Tony overshadowing us in our lives, and if you can't think who that friend is it's probably you and you should stop reading this immediately.
4 – Tony Stonem
Tony was the first every fuckboy in our lives and prepped us for all that came after, so we have to be grateful to him for that. Plus, he was our first crush that extended further than a wanting someone to cuddle and watch high school musical with type fantasty – if you catch our drift ;). Tony, we love and miss you forever.
3 - Effy Stonem
We know. WE KNOW. Looking back, Effy was actually annoying AF and nowhere near as cool as we thought back when we were 14 and donned way too much black eyeshadow and wore all black to try and be like her. But she was undoubtedly the most iconic Skins character and deserves a place in the top three.
2 – Chris Miles
If "fuck it for Chris" hasn't been your life mantra at some point in your life, are you really a Skins fan? We're still absolutely furious that he was killed off, and still occasionally cry thinking about his funeral.
1 - James Cook
Not only was Cook arguably the most fanciable of the whole series, but he was perfect in every way and by FAR the best character. His finishing off Skins (we pretend the aforementioned trash of generation three never happened) with the implied murder of Freddie's killer and "I'M COOOOOOKKKK" moved us to tears and still does.
All 7 seasons of Skins are available to watch now on All 4 here