Jason "Jay" Hogart, played by Mike Lobel

Mike Lobel

Michael Ryan "Mike" Lobel is a Canadian actor.-Life and career:Lobel is the oldest of three siblings. At a young age he began showing interest in music and visual arts which drew him to Etobicoke School of the Arts. He attended ESA from 1998 to 2003, first majoring in music then later switching...

, is a fictional character

Fictional character

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 on Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...

. He is usually portrayed as the school bully and bad boy, but later throughout the series he displays instances of conscience that make him more of an anti-hero

Anti-hero

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. Jay's mother died when he was young and he lost touch with his dad after he made a scene at the wedding between his dad and his step-mom.

Season 3

His first appearance is in the first part of the episode "Pride". He confronts Marco Del Rossi and tells him he should stay away from Dylan, who he calls 'Homochuck'.

Jay Hogart was well-known around Degrassi for being bad, mostly because of his tendencies to get into physical fights with other students, and he even had a mini-gang, which included his friend Towerz, his girlfriend Alex

Alex Nuñez

Alexandra "Alex" Nuñez is a fictional character on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She is portrayed by Deanna Casaluce....

, Alex's friend Amy, and later Sean Cameron

Sean Cameron

Sean Cameron is a fictional high schooler on the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation. He is portrayed by Daniel Clark. He left the show in season four, but returned for season six..-Personality:Sean is the token bad boy at the school...

. They stole candy, a laptop, a DVD player, broke into the school, and got into fights. This gang went on to be known to fans as "The Candy Bandits".

Season 4

When Rick Murray returns to Degrassi, Jay, along with the entire school, bullies him. After Jimmy and Spinner had pushed him into a garbage bin while he was trying to find his hat (which they had thrown in there), he spray paints x's onto the side windows of both Spinner and Jay's car.

Alex, Jay, and Spinner all plotted to ruin Rick on his appearance on the academic show "Whack Your Brain", because they knew he would make it to the final round. When Jimmy was forced into being in the show too, he comes to see that Rick is very much trying to be accepted, that he's changed. Jimmy becomes slight friends with him. After Rick had won the show, standing proudly on stage, he is doused in yellow paint and feathers. Rick goes home and gets his father's handgun, which he carries in his backpack to school where Jay and Spinner (purposely, so Rick would hear) talk loudly about how Jimmy was behind the paint and feathers prank. Rick shoots Jimmy in the back, paralyzing him. He meets up with Emma, Sean and Toby and after pointing the gun at Emma, he and Sean get into a fight in which the gun goes off. Rick dies in the struggle. (Time Stands Still Pt. 2 is considered one of the most shocking episodes of the series, and was voted 'Most Go-There Moment' by people on The-N.)

Before his expulsion, Jay spends most of the time at the ravine, where many kids of a 'bad' sort hang out to get drunk, party, do drugs, and have sex. He is one of the many who gets oral sex

Oral sex

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 from girls, and gives out bracelets as a 'prize,' each color corresponding to a sexual act. Emma later becomes one of those girls, but quickly learns that she isn't the only one. Emma later finds out that she has gonorrhea

Gonorrhea

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 after a doctor's visit. Emma and Jay end their 'relationship' since he felt bad for also getting girlfriend Alex sick with gonorrhea. Alex becomes furious with him after learning that her gonorrhea was a result of Jay having unsafe sexual relations with other girls, including her best friend, Amy. After physically assaulting Amy and ending their friendship, Alex breaks up with Jay.

Season 5

When JT needed more money to support Liberty and her upcoming baby, he got a job at a drugstore. Still needing more, Jay suggested selling Oxycodone

Oxycodone

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 to some guys he knew. Eventually the situation got extremely stressful for JT and he tried to kill himself, but was unsuccessful. He could have died, had Jay not called the ambulance.

With Sean in Wasaga Beach, Towerz moved away, Amy gone, and Alex having dumped him, Jay only had one friend, Spinner. This friendship didn't last as Jay, thinking he would help Spinner get some 'action', told Darcy she needed to let Spinner have sex with her or she would lose him. Darcy later told Spinner who got into a fight with Jay. Spinner then said that he changed since becoming a Christian and their friendship was broken. Finally at the end of school, he reconciled his friendship with Alex, comforting her after she came out to him as a lesbian

Lesbian

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 (despite some of his earlier homophobia

Homophobia

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 he fully accepted Alex when she came out to him) and revealed that she had broken up with Paige

Paige Michalchuk

Paige Michalchuk is a fictional character in the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation, portrayed by Lauren Collins.Paige was initially presented as the stereotypical "Queen bee": rich, snobby, and popular...

.

Season 6

Unlike his former friend Spinner, Jay makes the decision not to return to school and finish his education. He works as a mechanic, and will later use his connections to find Sean a job. At the opening of season six, he is apparently playing host to Sean, who is now back from Wasaga and enrolled in Degrassi. It is Jay and Sean who spark Peter Stone's interest in cars and street racing.

After one race between Peter and Sean ends up going terribly wrong - Sean hits an innocent man out for a nighttime jog - it is Jay who advises Sean to run away from the scene of the crime. Sean takes Jay's advice, but later gives himself up to the police out of guilt and persuasion on Emma's part. Although Jay is not one to wear his emotions on his sleeve, it is clear that he cares about Sean when he returns to Degrassi to tell Mr. Simpson and Emma that someone should be there to morally support Sean during his hearing, as Jay is unable to attend due to work.

Sean soon finds out about Emma giving Jay oral sex while he was away. When Jay tells Sean that Emma 'damn near begged' him to let her do it, Sean gets angry and goes to punch Jay, but Jay ducks out of the way and Sean hits the wall instead. Later on in the season, Jay and Sean are on good terms again.

Jay begins dating a new girl, Mel, who works at the cocktail bar/strip club, Zanzibar. It is Mel who tells Alex about a waitressing job opening up there. Jay then learns, through Mel, that Alex has taken up stripping to earn more money. He mockingly scolds her for lying to Paige, who Alex has recently become involved with romantically again, stating that a lie was not the best foundation for a good relationship. He then also tells Alex that she won't be able to keep her stripping job a secret for long, because eventually word will get around.

Season 7

Sometime before "Love Is A Battlefield" Mel had broken up with Jay for unknown reasons. To get over the breakup, Jay went to Alex and they got high together.

After Manny crashes her father's car, she asks Jay to fix it. His pay would be Manny's debut money. He refuses to take the money since they were having 'fun'.

Manny enlists Jay's help to make her parents call off her 18th birthday party, but her parents end up loving Jay rather than hating him, which was not her intention. Manny was also upset at her father for wanting her to excel in science (her best subject) instead of acting, her passion. This was the catalyst for Manny asking for Jay's help in the first place.

Later on, Jay further surprises Manny when he shows up at the party, dressed to impress. She decides to mess with her parents and tells them that she and Jay are dating and that they are going to run away together. She tells her father she was acting earlier, but never tells him if she was acting about her and Jay being a couple. She and Joseph reach a compromise: Manny can pursue acting in a drama program as long as she takes science courses as well.

Jay and Manny continue to spend time together. After an evening out, they end up outside of Manny's parents' apartment, making out. Manny's father opens the door right as they're kissing and exclaims that he should not have trusted Jay and that Jay is not welcome at their home ever again. To this, Manny exclaims that she and Jay were just celebrating...because they were engaged. Manny's parents, surprisingly, accept the "engagement" just as long as Manny and Jay plan to get married after Manny graduates from college.

Jay helps Manny for an upcoming audition at Smithsdale, but after a fight, he gives her a DVD of them making out instead. After recounting the story to Jimmy and Spinner, Jay realizes he's made a mistake, and rides with the two to switch the CDs out. When Manny realizes Jay switched the tapes, she tries to audition without it, but she stumbles when she sees Jay sitting in the back row of the auditorium, causing her to not get accepted into the university. She then tells Jay the ring and the fake engagement means nothing to her and throws the ring on the floor. Jay decides to schmooze the drama professor in charge of the auditions to help Manny get another chance, and succeeds. She then suggests to Jay that they give the engagement another shot "for real" when she is told of everything Jay did in order to help her get another chance.

When Manny decides she wants to meet Jay's parents, Jay tells Manny his parents had been deported to Malta and that, since he was born in Canada, he decided to stay behind. Manny then realizes that Jay is taking their engagement seriously upon learning that her ring has a real diamond. At a school dance, Manny shows Jay tickets to Malta and tells him she really wants to meet his parents... until she finds out Jay lied about his parents living there. They start to argue and Manny wonders why he lied. Jay then discovers Manny doesn't have her ring on and he realizes she sold the ring to get plane tickets for Malta. He then tells Manny the ring was really special to him because it belonged to his mother, who died when he was little. It appears that Manny and Jay then both left the dance.

The day after, they run into each other while attempting to call the other. They decide to tell each other the truth, so Jay tells Manny what happened with his parents. After his dad got with a third wife, Jay felt like he chose her over him, so he made a scene at his dad's wedding and then lost touch. Manny and Jay decide they would always tell each other the truth and reconcile.

While Jay is upset with Manny for selling his mother's ring, Manny attends an auction to try to sell the Malta tickets, but they end up buying them back. After Jay and Manny have a fight, Jay breaks into the pawn shop and steals back the ring. He then gives it back to Manny. Manny calls Jay hopeless for breaking in the pawn shop and stealing the ring. Jay responds to Manny by calling her a bitch. They separate and Manny cries since she was upset.

It is revealed in a Degrassi Mini that Jay is still in love with Manny, but Manny has yet to have mentioned Jay at all so far.

Season 8

At Degrassi it was Sweetheart week and when Spinner lies to Jane about getting accepted to Police school Jay and him get drunk and Jay suggests he should apologize to Jane. Along with Holly J. he got Spinner and Jane back together and he tells Holly J. that he is still in love with Manny. To get Spinner go to the dance, he lied and said that Manny was there, although she graduated last year.

Later during the winter break, Jay goes to California with Studz and Manny. While there he and Manny reconnect. Just before he leaves, Jay reveals to Manny that he still loves her and that he's proud of her. She tells him that she'll be back before he knows it, to which he replies that he will be waiting. The two then share a kiss, restarting their relationship.

Season 9

Jay appears in the episode "Close To Me". He is seen at The Dot and Spinner's house warming party. And again in Degrassi Takes Manhattan

Degrassi Takes Manhattan

The Rest of My Life: Degrassi Takes Manhattan is a 2010 Canadian film adaptation of the popular, long-running teenage drama Degrassi, which was known as Degrassi: The Next Generation prior to this film. The movie premiered in Canada on MuchMusic on 16 July 2010, and in the United States on TeenNick...

, his uncle Larry is the divorce lawyer Spinner and Emma spoke to but decided not to use. He and Manny are still together.

Relationships

• Alex Nuñez
  Alex Nuñez
  Alexandra "Alex" Nuñez is a fictional character on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. She is portrayed by Deanna Casaluce....
  
  
  • Start Up: Before "Gangsta Gangsta" (306)
  • Broke Up: "Secret, Part Two" (415)
    • Reason: Jay cheated on Alex with many different girls and gave her gonorrhea

• Mel
  • Start Up: Before "Don't You Want Me, Part One" (618)
  • Broke Up: Before "Love Is A Battlefield" (703)
    • Reason: Unexplained.

• Manny Santos
  Manny Santos
  Manuella "Manny" Santos is a fictional character portrayed by Cassie Steele on the television show Degrassi: The Next Generation.-Season 1:...
  
  
  • First Relationship
    • Start Up: "We Got The Beat" (706)
    • Broke Up: "Bust a Move, Part One" (713)
      • Reason: Jay was taking their fake engagement, like it was real.
  • Second Relationship
    • Start Up: "Bust a Move, Part Two" (714)
    • Broke Up: "Ladies Night" (720)
      • Reason: Jay broke into a pawn shop and steals back his ring that Manny hawked, and Manny is upset about it.
  • Third Relationship
    • Start Up: "Paradise City, Part Four
      Degrassi Goes Hollywood
      Paradise City: Degrassi Goes Hollywood is a 2009 Canadian film adaptation of the popular, long-running teenage drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. The movie premiered in the United States on The N on 14 August 2009, and in Canada on CTV on 30 August 2009. It was directed by veteran Degrassi...
      
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