Jake is a character from BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 and CBeebies

CBeebies

CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...

 programme The Tweenies

Tweenies

Tweenies was a television programme aimed at young children, broadcast on the BBC's Cbeebies channel.-Overview:The programme was created by Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton, a pair with a track record of being involved in BBC children's programming...

. His first appearance was in the 1998 pilot

Television pilot

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 Tweenie Band. He was acted by first Samantha Dodd

Samantha Dodd

Samantha Dodd is a British stage and television actress, most noted for performing the body of Jake in The Tweenies . Dodd played Baby Pom in the Fimbles , Jason Baa in season one of The Baaas , and Little Worm in Small Seeds, Big Worms .She played the titular character in Paddington Bear in a...

, and then Esther Collins. His voice is provided by Justin Fletcher

Justin Fletcher

Justin Fletcher, MBE is an English children's TV personality in the United Kingdom.Fletcher is most associated as a presenter and actor on the BBC pre-school television channel CBeebies, both speaking and performing in various often self-created roles.-Biography:Born in Reading, Berkshire, he is...

, who stars in another CBeebies programme, Tikkabilla

Tikkabilla

Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC1, BBC2 and on the CBeebies channel.The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner...

.

Appearance

Jake is orange

Orange (colour)

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 with a tall blond mohican

Mohican

-Native Americans:* Mahican , a Native American tribe who lived in and around the Hudson Valley* Mohegan, a functional confederation of several branches of Native Americans during the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century...

. He wears a dark blue t-shirt

T-shirt

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 with yellow circles, blue shorts

Shorts

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. He has yellow stockings and blue boots with the Tweenies logo on.

Personality

Jake is the youngest Tweenie (2 3/4) and sometimes shows signs of being homesick. He cries often and has weird imaginations. In the clip show

Clip show

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 Sleeping, he is sent to bed for having a tantrum and sulks in his room, while reminiscing about the episodes Leaky Beanbag and Prickly Fizz. He often gets words mixed up.

Likes

Jake's best friend is Milo, and the two play football together. Jake's favourite colour is green. Like many young boys, he likes fast motor cars, dragons, and adventures.

Dubs

Jake is dubbed by different actors in the Tweenies foreign versions:

• English (United States
  United States
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  ) and Dutch
  Dutch language
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   : Dieter Jansen
• Spanish
  Spanish language
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   (Spain
  Spain
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  ): Sara Vivas
• (Latin America): Rosario Dawson/Andrea Perez
• French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  : Guillame Lebon