Will Hackett
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William "Will" Hackett is a fictional character on the long-running Channel 4 British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
He is played by actor Oliver Farnworth.
Will is a student at Hollyoaks Community College and is currently studying Pure Maths.
Character history
Will was revealed as a child genius by Gilly as he was a contestant on Countdown at 15 years old and seen as a child prodigy. He was also fast-tracked into Oxford University at 16 but dropped out due to complications.
Now at HCC with a second chance, Will is extremely moody and keeps himself to himself but has developed obsessive feelings for Zoë Carpenter. He tried to win her affection but she turned him down; he has since tried more devious means of winning her praise by trying to sabotage her new relationship with Zak Ramsey.
When Zak and Zoë made up, Will broke into her bedroom and hid some of her possessions. He framed Zak for this, causing Zoë to dump Zak. Will then 'bugged' Zoë's bedroom, but saw more than he bargained for when Zöe rekindled her new-found interest in nudism with flatmate Kris Fisher.
Will is not beyond manipulating people as long as it benefits or amuses him. Within several days of arrivng at HCC, he placed the recently deceased Olivia Johnson's diary in the room of her friend Jessica, knowing that Olivia said some cruel things about Jess inside. Will only came clean after Jess had accused all of their other flatmates. Recently, he stole (then) ex-girlfirend Zoë's mobile phone and sent a vast number of increasingly possesive texts to Rhys Ashworth, in order to put Rhys off from dating Zoë after she dumped him after a dating game. He also changed results on a blood test belonging to flat mate Kris Fisher, giving Kris the impression he had HIV.
Will sabotaged Zoe's trip to New York. As she was about to leave in the taxi to the airport Will trapped Zoe's arm in the taxi's door, forcing her to go to A&E (and thereby missing her flight). After returning from the hospital, and being under the effects of pain killers and alcohol, a depressed Zoe accuses Will of deliberately sabotaging her chances of going to New York.
Later in the student bar, Will manipulates Jess to go talk to Zoe for him and convince her that he didn't deliberately hurt her hand. Will then spies on Jess and Zoe in Zoe's room using his hidden web camera and overhears them gossiping about him. Jess's remarks of Will being desperate and Zoe revealing intimate and embarassing gossip about her and Will's sex life reduce Will to angry tears.
His behaviour has not gone unnoticed - Kris had started to suspect that Will was not all he seemed to be, but after Will stuck by him during his HIV scare, Kris is more ignorant of Will's devious manner. Only Zak so far seems to mistrust Will, especially as they are both fighting for Zoe' affections.
Flat mates
External links
Will Hackett on the Hollyoaks website