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Glenn Donovan was the ex-husband of Tracey Donovan and father to her three sons; Adam, Liam and Jesse Donovan. He was also the father of Darcy Wilde's son, Toby Wilde.
Biography[]
1968-2017: Backstory[]
Glenn grows up with a gangster lifestyle, this is hinted due to his father not being able to support his family. Sometime during his younger years, he meets Tracey Donovan. While working with Fraser Black as he and Glenn "worked in the same circles". Tracey decided leave Fraser due to his ruthless lifestyle. So Glenn helped her get away from him. They would then later go on to have three sons, Adam, Liam and Jesse Donovan. Some point before she went missing, Glenn slept with his eldest son's wife Darcy Wilde, to which she has a child Toby Wilde, whom was in fact Glenn's son and not Adam's which was originally believed.
2017: Arrival[]
Glenn is first seen in August 2017 when his approached by Adam's devious ex-girlfriend, Darcy Wilde to which Glenn is cold towards weeks later now in October 2017, Glenn arrives in Hollyoaks village in an attempt to get close with his three sons. Its revealed he also has a history with Grace Black and it turns out Glenn had slept with Grace which led to him and Tracey to split up. Also during his arrival in the village Glenn clashes with Warren Fox after Glenn intervenes during Warren and Grace locking heads. Later on Glenn along with Grace help Sienna Blake to escape Warren however this backfires when Warren gets to Sienna first and later leaves the village with his newly born daughter.
Glenn is then later revealed to be the biological father of Toby Wilde who is believed to be the son of Adam as it turns out Glenn had slept with Darcy before she went missing. Before Glenn temporarily departs the village he orders Darcy to help him bond with his sons and Glenn returns in December 2017 and Instantly causes problems for Grace and the rest of his family when Glenn tells his three sons that Grace was the other woman he slept with that caused he and Tracey's marriage to end.
2018: Villainous and Murderous Antics[]
In January 2018, Grace discovers that Glenn is a high ranking gangland boss after scally, Shane Sweeney tells Grace of a story her involving a murder from a helicopter a same story Grace's father, Fraser had told her as a child it turns out Glenn helped Fraser push the guy out the helicopter as in his word he and Fraser "worked in the same circle's". Glenn is thankful when Grace accepts who he is but wants to opt in his criminal organisation and in the same month Glenn enlists one of his employees known as Trigger to stage an attack however it's interrupted by Adam and Trigger hits Glenn for real but Glenn is thankful as it seemed to work, by getting his family back onside. In February 2018, Glenn threatens a high ranking judge in order to stop his youngest son, Jess from going to prison, Adam later strikes a deal unknown to Glenn with D.S. Roxy Cassidy in order to pose and bring Glenn down.
By March 2018, after being approached by his associate, Jay Johnson, Glenn discovers that he has a 'mole' in his camp he later concludes its Trigger so Glenn murders Trigger and enlists Adam to get rid of the body unaware its Adam who is the mole also in March, Glenn helps Ryan Knight cover up the murder of D.S. Geoff Thorpe. In April 2018, Glenn helps Darcy to escape the village after Darcy nearly kills Esther Bloom. By May 2018, Glenn thinks that the grass (the mole) is Zack Loveday and orders Adam to kill him but during this Glenn discovers Adam is the grass and in response to finding out his own son is grassing him, Glenn retrieves his gun and shoot Adam dead on the spot after this Glenn threatens Zack to keep quiet or he will kill him and his family.
2018: WAGs and Death[]
Glenn starts to emotionally control Grace and would often belittle her and bad constantly bad mouth the two people Grace only ever seemed to care about in her father, Fraser and deceased ex fiancé, Trevor Royle. Glenn at one point even goes as far as too spitting on Grace. Glenn later sleeps with Adam's ex in Maxine Minniver and often manipulated Maxine to keep her onside. Although Glenn is the one unfaithful to Grace, Glenn finds out that Grace has an admirer and tells Grace he knows who its is this leads Glenn to shoot old flame Kim Butterfield however Kim survives.
Glenn also threatened Courtney Campbell into helping smuggle drugs to Ibiza as Glenn had scared off Courtney's controlling grandmother, Granny Campbell. It also turns out Glenn has been in contact with Liam since his departure when Courtney meets Liam. Later on in an effort to scare Zack some more Glenn grows closer to his mother, Simone Loveday and even sleeps with her but begins to blackmail Simone with a recording of the two. Glenn's treatment of all the women later lead them to form together with a group titled WAGs which stood for "Women Against Glenn". Glenn is unaware of this until Grace strikes a deal with Jay for him to kill Glenn however Glenn is saved by Liam whom shoots Jay down killing him. Glenn prepares to kill Grace for her betrayal but is stopped by the rest of the women. Glenn then threatens every single one of them and it leads them wanting to kill Glenn by poisoning him but when fight breaks out between Glenn and Zack someone slips in Potassium Chloride in Glenn's pint and Glenn dies of a cardiac arrest.
Many of the women came under suspicion from each other but especially from Liam who wanted to avenge his fathers death and believing that Kim had something to do with it which leads Kim to flee. In November 2018 a month after his death, Glenn's killer is finally revealed to be Breda McQueen who sneakily slipped the poison in Glenn's drink as she deemed Glenn a "bad dad".
Kill Count[]
Murders[]
- Trigger, 8th March 2018 - Beaten to death with a crowbar.
- Adam Donovan, 23rd May 2018 - Shot after Glenn discovered that Adam reported him to the police.
- Note: It has been referenced that Glenn has killed more characters than mentioned by name on-screen.
Connected Murders[]
- Unknown, prior to August 2013 - Glenn helped Fraser Black track down the person and hired the helicopter which Fraser pushed them out of.
- Geoff Thorpe, 27th March 2018 - Helped Ryan Knight (Geoff's killer) frame Shane Sweeney for the crime.
- Jay Johnson, 15th October 2018 - Helped Liam Donovan dispose of Jay's body.
Attempted Murders[]
- Trigger, 29th January 2018 - Attempted to bludgeon him to death with a lamp, to stop Grace from finding out Trigger worked for him but Grace stopped him just before he could go through with it and told him she already knew.
- Zack Loveday, 23rd May 2018 - After abducting Zack, Glenn ordered Adam to kill him but instead he let him go resulting in Glenn killing Adam instead.
- Kim Butterfield, 31st July 2018 - Shot her in the back, thinking she had slept with Grace when it was in fact Farrah Maalik.
- Maxine Minniver, 10th September 2018 - Attempted to bludgeon her to death after she tried to record him confessing to killing Adam but passed out due to his illness.
- Grace Black, 16th October 2018 - Prepared to shoot her after discovering she tried to have him killed but stopped when Farrah, Kim, Simone, Courtney and Maxine stepped in his way.
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Residences[]
Employment History[]
Background Information[]
Introduction Sequence[]
- 2017: Glenn is at a bar with a group of girls and boys.
Quotes[]
| “ | Why did you call me? | ” |
— First line to Darcy Wilde.
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| “ | You see Trig, in this line of work, one has to learn to trust one's gut instinct, and unfortunately for you, my gut still tells me that you grassed me up to the police. | ” |
— To Trigger, just before Glenn murders him.
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| “ | For everything I've done, I'd like to say I'm truly sorry... but I'm not. | ” |
— To Adam Donovan, just before Glenn murders him.
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| “ | Jesse... | ” |
— Final line to Jesse Donovan before death.
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