page_title: Doug Graham (Winners & Losers)
section_title: Carla Hughes
hierarchical_section_title: Doug Graham (Winners & Losers) / Development / Carla Hughes
caption_attribution_description: Sybilla Budd 2016 TV Week Logie Awards
context_page_description: Doug Graham is a fictional character in the Australian Channel Seven drama series Winners & Losers, played by Tom Wren. Doug made his debut screen appearance in the pilot episode "Covert Aggression in Netball", which was broadcast on 22 March 2011. Doug is one the show's regular male characters. Wren was cast in the show after only working as a guest artist on other shows. Actor Stephen Phillips also auditioned for the role but he was cast as Doug's friend Zach Armstrong. Doug works a registrar at a local hospital. He is characterised as a caring and patient individual with a high sense of morality. He shares a close on-screen friendship with Sophie Wong. But Doug is also in love with her. Their "will they, won't they?" story arc has spanned throughout the character's tenure. Though Doug also has relationships with Bec Gilbert and Carla Hughes.
  Doug has been centric to a number of the shows pregnancy storylines. His encounter with Bec results in her giving birth to his son Harrison Graham. It proved complicated and occurred while he was in a relationship with Sophie. The latter also becomes pregnant but has an abortion. While Carla becomes pregnant and suffers a miscarriage.
context_section_description: In July 2013, it was announced that actress Sibylla Budd had been cast as Head of Emergency Medicine, Carla Hughes, who would be a new love interest for Doug. Budd said that she was interested to see viewer reaction to her character becoming between Doug and Sophie. They decide to get married but begin to fight over the proceedings. Doug and Carla decide to spontaneously marry at their own engagement party.
  Vallejo told Seanna Cronin from The Toowoomba Chronicle that Sophie goes "crazy" and becomes determined to sabotage their relationship. But Sophie cannot deny that "Carla is a really awesome woman" which really annoys her. But still Sophie is convinced that she is meant to be with Doug. The actress believed it was the consistent scenario of realising that you love someone when they are with a new partner. Vallejo believed that the storyline offered closure for fans of Doug and Sophie. She concluded that "the Sophie and Doug storyline has been going on since the very beginning, what I love to watch on television is the 'will they, won't they'. Doug and Sophie have gone through a lot and this is the final axe (to grind) for their relationship."
  Carla performs a test and fears she cannot hear her babies' heartbeat. She asks Sophie to perform an ultrasound try to determine it. A Soap World writer revealed that Carla is desperate and "clings to her sometime love rival for support." Sophie is unable to detect the heartbeat.
caption: Sibylla Budd (pictured) played Doug's third love interest and eventual wife Carla Hughes.
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