Hunter McQueen

Hunter McQueen was the son of Goldie McQueen and Shane Sweeney, and twin brother of Prince McQueen.
==Biography==
===2001-2016: Early Life===
Twins Prince and Hunter McQueen were born to a teenage Goldie McQueen in May 2001. Goldie's mother Breda helped raise the twins, but Goldie struggled to bond with them and decided to call social services to have adopted. However, a few days later, Goldie began missing the twins and changed her mind, managing to get them back.
===2016-2017: Arrival and Affair with Neeta===
Prince and Hunter arrived in Hollyoaks in November 2016, breaking into the McQueen family's house. On their first day at Hollyoaks High School, Prince and Hunter ended up in detention after Prince accidentally hit Louis with a football. Hunter developed a crush on teacher Neeta Kaur after she caught him graffitiing on school grounds. When Shane arrived in the village in January 2017 and attempted to steal the school's equipment, Hunter warned Neeta. Prince - who had formed a liking for their father - retaliated by giving Neeta Hunter's folder of sexy drawings of her. Hunter then demanded that Shane left the village, leaving Goldie and Prince furious with him when Shane went on the run from Warren Fox.
As Neeta helped him celebrate his birthday, Hunter ended up kissing her. Neeta was left conflicted, especially when Hunter prepared a candlelit dinner for them both. Neeta told Hunter that they had to keep their relationship secret from Neeta's boss Sally St. Claire, and gave Hunter her phone number. When Neeta found herself at risk of being fired after ignoring Lily Drinkwell's cheating attempts during an exam, a drunken Neeta spent the night with Hunter. When Neeta rejected him, Hunter took a photo of her sleeping and posted it anonymously online. On a holiday to Ibiza, the pair continued their affair but were caught by holiday-goer Brody Hudson who also lived in Chester.
Neeta's partner and Hunter's employer Mac Nightingale became suspicious when Hunter feigned illness to get off work, and he found packaging for the morning after pill in Neeta's possession as Hunter's condom had split during sex. Hunter managed to convince Mac that he was dating a girl at school and had asked Neeta to get the pill for her. After Mac decided to have another child with Neeta, Neeta decided to end their affair. An upset Hunter went on a date with Peri Lomax, but soon reconciled with Neeta.
===2017-2018: Neeta's Death and Departure===
Whilst driving in Mac's car, Neeta and Hunter triggered a speed camera, subsequently revealing their affair to Mac. Hunter was offered a place at an art college in Edinburgh and Neeta planned to leave Mac to join him, but Mac revealed that he knew of the affair. He then forced Neeta to quit her job, and viciously attacked Hunter when he intervened. Sally ended up discovering the affair and reported the pair to the police. A few days later, Mac caused an explosion at the school by damaging a boiler then setting one of Hunter's drawings alight, killing Neeta when the floor gave way and Mac let her fall to her death.
Hunter struggled to cope with his grief and began experiencing panic attacks. Taking dodgy pills to try combat the attacks, Hunter began behaving erratically. After discovering the body of Carl Costello, Hunter attempted to tell Prince but was not believed after Prince learned of the pills. However, when Hunter took Sylver McQueen to the woods, Carl's body had gone missing. After Mac was left seriously injured after being pushed through a window by his daughter Ellie Nightingale, Hunter began visiting him in his care facility in Manchester.
In July 2018, Hunter encountered a woman at Mac's care facility, whom he soon discovered was Neeta's sister Asha Kaur. The pair became friends and briefly holidayed to Brighton. Upon their return, Mac continued to cause trouble with Hunter, jumping out of his wheelchair and claiming to his son Alfie Nightingale that Hunter had pushed him. After discovering that Neeta's memorial had been vandalised, Hunter took some dodgy pills, took Mac to The Archway and threatened to push him over the edge unless he confessed to killing Neeta. Asha and Prince managed to talk him down and after evading arrest by D.S. Roxy Cassidy, decided to leave the village to move to Brighton with Asha.
===2022-2024: Return===
Hunter returned to the village for Prince's wedding to Olivia Bradshaw, having separated from Asha some time earlier. He met the bride herself, who claimed to Hunter that she was a bridesmaid named "Meredith". As Hunter comforted her over her problems, the pair slept together, with Hunter only learning of her identity the next morning. Olivia tried to blackmail Hunter, but he told Prince and Prince broke up with Olivia during the reception. Olivia left the village but Prince forgave Hunter and he decided to remain in the village, living at The Cage with the McQueens and working as a teacher at Hollyoaks High School.
=== 2024: Relationship with Zoe Anderson and Death ===
Hunter began dating Zoe Anderson. The two maintained a decent relationship, until in April 2024, Zoe would sleep with, a then high, Prince, Hunter's brother. Hunter wouldn't find out about this until the aftermath of close friend Lizzie Chen-Williams dying from an overdose due to a tainted pill in circulation because of local gangster, Warren Fox by May 2024, however, Zoe lied and told Hunter he didn't know the man she had slept with.
The same night as Lizzie died at The Loft, Hunter would watch a film with Prince, Cleo McQueen and Mercedes McQueen, and fall asleep on Prince's shoulder. Prince begins to unravel to Hunter, unbeknownst to him that Hunter was already dead. A couple of minutes later, Prince felt that Hunter was really cold, Cleo couldn't find a pulse, and announced him to have died. Hunter never found out Prince was the man who slept with Zoe.
==Kill Count ==
===Murder Victims===
None
===Attempted Murders===
#Mac Nightingale, 3rd October 2018 - Prepared to throw him off The Archway, but was talked down by Asha Kaur and Prince McQueen.
==Appendices==
===Residences===
Address 	Duration
26 Leigh Road	17th November 2016 to 3rd October 2018
Brighton 	3rd October 2018 to 28th December 2022
The Cage 	28th December 2022 to 7th May 2024
===Employment history===
Job 	Duration
Hollyoaks High School student	17th November 2016 to 3rd October 2018
The Dog in the Pond employee 	2017
Hollyoaks High School teacher	14th March 2023 to 7th May 2024
==Background Information==
*Theo Graham's casting as "creative and free spirited" Hunter McQueen was announced in July 2016.
*Graham quit the role in 2018. His exit was not announced, instead being kept as a surprise for viewers in October 2018.
== Introduction Sequence==
*2016-2017: Hunter and Prince squirt their mum, Goldie, with squirt guns.
*2017-2018: Prince and Hunter play basketball.
*2023-2024: Hunter takes photos in the photobooth with Brooke Hathaway, Lizzie Chen-Williams, Nadira Valli, Juliet Nightingale, Peri Lomax, Prince McQueen, Romeo Nightingale, Lacey Lloyd and Rayne Royce. Afterwards, they all walk upstairs to The Loft.
==Quotes==
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==See Also ==
*List of appearances
*McQueen family
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