List of The Brittas Empire Characters - Colin Weatherby

Colin Weatherby (born 1971 age: 19-26) is a Deputy Manager and janitor of Whitbury Leisure centre.

Colin is a gentle, loyal and friendly character who is popular with all of his colleagues. However, he is also forgetful, disorganized, highly incompetent and appears constantly dishevelled and filthy. However, Colin is a skilled carpenter and engineer and also has an impressive knowledge of biology, woodwork, construction, science, medical, midwifery, building, architecture, plants, natural foods and healthy lifestyles. Despite this, he often suffers from unpleasant medical symptoms, and often has cuts, bruises and boils, and suffers seborrhea. One of his hands is also septic and infected and seen in a bandage throughout most of the series (As a result of this, whenever he shakes someone's hand, a dirty piece of bandage is left behind). Colin is accident-prone, and is frequently late or absent because of receiving medical attention for injuries he has sustained (then gives an explanation of this, despite Brittas telling him to be quiet). He hails from Sunderland and, like Julie, speaks with a distinctly northern English accent, in contrast to everyone else at the centre.

Colin is the only member of staff who respects and reveres Gordon Brittas as a role model, and has never insulted Brittas. However, while Gordon appreciates Colin's loyal nature, feels sympathetic towards him, admires his scientific and artistic knowledge, and is good friends with him (even going as far as to suck spider venom out of Colin's bottom), he is well aware throughout the show of Colin's incompetence as a manager and comes very close to firing him on several occasions. Gordon prefers working with the other deputies such as Laura or Gavin, rarely delegating jobs or responsibilities to Colin. Gordon also tries to keep Colin as hidden from the public as possible, afraid that he may present a bad image of the centre.

An example of Colin's popularity among his colleagues, is that whenever Gordon tries to sack Colin, the staff always protest.

From series 1 to halfway through series 5, he serves alongside fellow manager Laura as Deputy Manager Wet, "Wet" referring to his pool duties. Brittas then promotes Gavin to Acting Deputy Manager with the intention of sacking Colin due to his incompetence, but Laura eventually forces Brittas to "promote" him to "Manager of Building Fabric" - essentially a glorified janitor's position - and gives him a new uniform, a 2% pay rise, and an 'office' in the basement. Colin is immensely happy with his new position and goes on to create many dangerous, crackpot inventions in the basement, ranging from waste recycling devices to Morris Minor-powered baby cradles.

Colin later clashes with Gavin after his promotion to Acting Deputy Manager out of jealousy. However, Brittas later reveals that Colin was never actually terminated as Deputy Manager Wet and is still technically Gavin's superior, much to Colin's delight and Gavin's chagrin.

In series 4, it is revealed that Colin has an illegitimate daughter, Stephanie, who lives in Tasmania, Australia. He also has a relationship with a milkwoman, Pauline (who unknown to Colin, is a male transvestite). He was once engaged to an Edwina Harris, but that affair does not work out. In Series 6 and Series 7, hints are dropped at a possible romance between Colin and Julie. In "Back From The Dead", Julie shows sympathy towards Colin when he is dumped by his girlfriend. Colin also threatens to attack anyone who insults Julie. He also comments how pretty Julie and offers to marry her when discovering she is pregnant. Although she refuses, she names him as the baby's godfather, and often goes on strike upon discovering Colin could be sacked