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Jason is the son of Eileen Grimshaw and Tony Stewart, but for many years doesn't know his father, he is later reunited with him in 2003. Upon his arrival, he is an aspiring runner - something which Eileen doesn't completely approve of. He works for a brief period in Sally Webster (Sally Dynevor)'s electrical shop in 2001 until the failing business catches fire and is permanently closed down. He is the one to discover a traumatised Toyah Battersby (Georgia Taylor) lying in the ginnel, following her rape in April 2001, when he is out jogging early one morning. Although Jason has has many romances, all of them were short-lived since he has phobia to commitment. He has had many flings with street residents, Candice Stowe (Nikki Sanderson) and Sarah-Louise Platt (Tina O'Brien). He seems to have settled down with Violet Wilson (Jenny Platt), even uncharacteristically promising to look after her when he thinks that she is carrying his baby. Jason is stunned to discover that Violet shared a drunken kiss with his friend Charlie Stubbs (Bill Ward). He tries to continue his relationship but he is unable to cope with the confession and breaks up with her. While they are apart, he begins dating Saras and despite reuniting with ex Violet, he continues his affair with her. Eventually, Violet discovers the affair and dumps Jason.
Having split with Violet again, Jason and Sarah continue seeing each other, much to the dismay of their mothers. Their relationship struggles initially as Sarah feels insecure about his relationship with Violet and the fact he proposed to her while secretly with her. This leads to a showdown in which Sarah ends his relationship with Jason in the Rovers by throwing his pint over his head. After days of bickering, Jason decides to win Sarah back, and after she refuses to speak to him, Jason breaks into her house and proposes. She accepts, although they have a cool reception from their mothers. They announce their engagement in the Rovers in Violet's presence, which Sarah wants to do to make a point. The wedding, though, is a disaster. Jason decides he cannot commit and escapes through a toilet window at the venue, leaving Sarah heartbroken. After months of ignoring him because of this, she slowly starts to come round and reconciles with him. However, on Christmas Day 2006, Jason has a major surprise delivered to the front door in the shape of a baby - his little girl by a young woman called Emma (Stephanie Waring).
Jason marries Sarah on Halloween, 2007. David invites Jason's brother, Todd, (also Sarah's ex and the father of her deceased son, Billy) to the wedding, hoping to cause havoc. However, this backfires and things look too good for the big day. David - in a further attempt to sabotage the wedding - fakes a suicide while the ceremony is in progress, but Sarah insists that they carry on regardless. David's fake suicide attempt puts Jason and Sarah's marriage on the rocks. Gail lets David move back home and the couple's honeymoon is cut short. Sarah knows that it is just a stunt to ruin the wedding but Jason doesn't believe it. In November 2007, Jason is meant to take Sarah's wedding dress to the cleaners but accidentally leaves it in Roy's Rolls where David picks it up. He puts it in a puddle before placing it in a bin bag with the other bits and pieces that the Morton kids get from their neighbours. The Mortons' Guy Fawkes gets first prize and, as the dress burns, Sarah recognizes it as her wedding dress before Jason admits that he accidentally lost it somewhere. Sarah knows immediately that this is David's doing. Jason, Sarah and her daughter Bethany (Amy & Emily Walton) are set to leave for Milan on 30 December 2007, after Sarah gets a job from her uncle Stephen (Todd Boyce). Jason backs out, leaving Sarah and Bethany to go alone, when Sarah admits that she had planted the drugs in David's drawer at the salon, thereby ruining his chances of Stephen offering him the job in Milan.
On New Year's Eve 2007, Jason and Becky Granger (Katherine Kelly) kiss as the midnight chimes ring, and on 1 February 2008, they have sex. Jason regrets it the next morning and goes to see Sarah in Milan, to tell her he had cheated on her with Becky. Instead of forgiving him, she gives him a black eye. When he returns to the Street, Becky hits him too.
Several months later, after some flirting, Jason and Becky have sex again and they become a couple. However, they argue when Jason wants to have a night in alone. In October 2008, Jason discovers that Sarah is thinking about coming home. He immediately phones her and she agrees to give him another chance. Meanwhile, he is preparing to move in with Becky but he dumps her and flies off to Italy. Becky later attacks him in the Rovers for his betrayal. Everything backfires for Jason when he subsequently discovers that Sarah has decided to reconcile with her Italian boyfriend, just as he is going to Milan to meet her. On 16 February 2009, Jason and Becky sleep together and reunite after revealing that he and Sarah are in the middle of a divorce. To prove to Becky, he is serious this time, he proposes and she accepts. Unfortunately, Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) also proposes to Becky and although she initially decides to marry Jason, she realises she can't go through with it and calls off the engagement. In June 2009, Jason sleeps with David's ex-girlfriend Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan). They commence dating however, when Tina tells David the truth about her and Jason, he turns nasty and starts throwing bricks at Jason. Jason fights back and the pair have to be separated by the locals. Tina and Jason buy No. 12a Coronation Street and move in together in July 2009. Jason and Tina then redecorate the flat and hold a house-warming party in September 2009. Then in November 2009, a loan shark named Rick Neelan expresses fake interest in buying the flat, when in reality, he is waiting for Tina's father Joe (Reece Dinsdale) to pay the debts he owes him. Before Christmas 2009, Tina and Jason row after it is discovered that Jason is still legally married to Sarah. In retaliation, she shares a kiss with Nick Tilsley (Ben Price) his brother-in-law.
They reconcile however, and in January 2010, when Joe and Gail go on their honeymoon, he asks Jason to look out for Tina, who is in trouble due to the loan sharks. On 12 February 2010, Jason gives Tina a Valentine's Day present of his divorce papers to Sarah. Tina thinks that is her full Valentine's Day present and goes to get alcohol to celebrate. When she returns, Jason proposes to her after she has seen the ring and she accepts. However, following the sudden death of Joe, Tina, unable to cope with her grief, ends her engagement with Jason and he moves out of the flat, though reclaims it.
Upon finding out Tina has been dating Graeme Proctor, he is angered that they slept together when they were still together and locks Tina out of the flat. Then, he teams up with David (who was Graeme's best friend) to humiliate Tina and Graeme further; first by David using Graeme's clothes to mop up water (Graeme had handcuffed David to the Platt's radiator, who then pulled it off) and then cutting the hoods off his hoodies, as well as cutting the peaks off his caps; then, Jason throws binbags of Tina's clothes on top of her from the house's windows, all in front of a crowd. Satisfied, David and Jason end their partnership, but remain close friends.
On 24 September 2010, Jason is recruited by a half naked Rosie Webster to drive her in Kevin's car to Sheffield to pick up Sophie (Brooke Vincent) and her girlfriend Sian (Sacha Parkinson) after they ran away together. Immediately, there is a fiery chemistry between the pair; on 18 October, Rosie books with Owen for a builder to come round and redocorate the kitchen after the oven catches on fire, whilst Sally and Kevin are away. On the 21st, whilst Jason is busy with the Webster's kitchen, and Rosie is running around for a cab to take her to an important modelling job, she happens to mention that it is 'underwear modelling', so Jason immediately offers to be her driver. With Jason not knowing what a 'green screen' is and the male model going AWOL, Rosie volunteers Jason to step in, and the pair complete the photoshoot together; with Jason looking very pleased with himself, once they return home, they end up sleeping together. The next day Jason seems to think he has done something wrong, with Rosie being evasive and not paying him the money for the work he done on the kitchen; she eventually coughs up the money and he buys her a 'fake' version of the handbag that she dreamt of having and the pair have another steamy sex session, resulting in the pair starting a romance.
When the Joinery bar exploded, bringing a tram off the viaduct which smashes into the Corner Shop and the Kabin, Jason assists with helping everyone and his finest act of the night is venturing into No.13 (which is in flames) to find Simon Barlow (Alex Bain). He finds him in a closet upstairs and they both get out with help from the fire department. Upon escaping, he is thanked gratefully by the Barlow family and praised by the residents for his act of courage. With Jason and Rosie living together, they both tackle the new year looking out for Sophie and Sian as they get kicked out of the Websters. When Graeme convinces Claire to run away, after the truth could be revealed, about her attacking Tracy Barlow, Jason helps her and her boys to escape and drives her to the airport, on 14 January. On 17 January, Eileen's money troubles, get a lot worse, and number 11 starts to crumble to pieces around her; she seeks help from an insurance firm, however, when Jason spots a man lurking around the back of the house, he thinks he is trying to spy on a half naked Rosie, and punches him to the ground. Only to immediately discover that he is the insurance salesman, which of course, affects the result and Eileen can't claim a penny.
On 4 February, after Rosie agrees to go to a 'mother and baby' photo shoot, which 'pays a fortune' and they manage to convince Kevin to borrow baby Jack for the day, disaster strikes when the mix up the car seats, and bring home a baby girl. Jason spots the mistake, and just as they are about to swap back the babies, Kevin walks in and demands the truth. Jason reveals the truth and Kevin goes back out to find him. He finds Jack, but warns Rosie to stay away from him, expressing his disappointment in her. Despite this, Jason is good friends with Kevin and supports him when he wins £200,000 on a scratchcard. When Kev is nearly crushed to death at the garage when his new car ramp malfunctions (Kevin's work colleague Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) had attacked it in a rage and unintentionally damaged it), Jason joins Rosie and her family at the hospital. Kevin orders Jason to call the ramp manufacturers and find the fault, threaten legal action if he has to. When it's revealed that the ramp was damaged on purpose, Jason is shocked and disgusted that someone would try to kill Kevin.
In June, Jason celebrates his 28th birthday and Becky hosts a party for him in the Rovers. However, she orders a stripper and the party turns to all-out mayhem when Chris Gray (Will Thorp) has a go at Frank Foster (Andrew Lancel). A fight breaks out between them and this leads to a whole-pub brawl, with Jason caught in the midst, things sent flying, the brawl going onto the street and a chair smashing the window. Though Jason is shaken, he is perfectly fine.
In November 2011, Rosie tells Jason that she is showing a potential buyer around their flat (which they are selling), but unknown to Rosie and Jason, the mystery buyer is actually Rosie's ex-kidnapper John Stape (Graeme Hawley) who has returned to kidnap Rosie as he blames her for his wife Fiz Stape (Jenny McAlpine)'s imprisonment for his crimes. Rosie and Jason have a brief argument which leads to her storming off to show 'Mr Chips' around the flat. Meanwhile, Jason informs Kevin that Rosie never returned from the flat-viewing and he is concerned. Jason and Kevin hear Rosie's screams and find her bound and gagged in the flat,and Kevin chases after John, who then crashes his car and dies. Jason apologises to Rosie for abandoning her and says he'll never do it again. Rosie gets an offer for a show in London however she has to be single to enter the show. She realises she has to follow her career and breaks up with Jason.
Jason rekindles his relationship with Maria Connor (Samia Ghadie) however she later shares a kiss with her gay best friend Marcus Dent (Charlie Condou), who is actually dating Aiden. They later fail to resist temptation and sleep together. The pair dump their boyfriends Aiden and Jason. Realising they are in love with one another, they agree to give their relationship a go. In December 2012, Jason starts to go out with Stella Price who is 19 years old than Jason, after he did some building work on the rovers, they had sex on 13 December 2012
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