Sam Wilkes Jr. (Actor)

**Birth Date:** 2 March 2018
 **Death Date:** 21 April 2020 (aged 2)
 **Family:** .
Sam Wilkes Holahan (biological father)
Austin Holahan (stepfather)
Dora Marquez (mother)
Diego Marquez (relative, possibly 2nd cousin-in-law?)
Lyn Drummond (paternal grandmother)
John Wilkes (biological paternal grandfather)
Marshall (non-biological paternal grandfather 1)
Unnamed non-biological paternal grandfather 2
Elena Marquez (maternal grandmother)
Unknown maternal grandfather
Zuma (uncle)
Rubble (uncle)
Chase (uncle)
Viribus/Aspen (uncle)

For the page of his father, please redirect to Austin Holahan (Actor).

Sam Wilkes (Actor) (better known as **Sam Wilkes Jr.**) was an American-born Australian actor and is the oldest son of Austin Holahan. Like his father, Sam Wilkes Jr. is also diagnosed with Autism Spectrum.

Sam is now the license holder of all his dad's TV shows including The Final Hour (license expired July 2018 and this show moved to livestreaming), Fortnight Brunch (later renamed to Tuesdays with Sam & Lyn) and Shopping Spree. Sam Wilkes Holahan began planning Fortnight Brunch around the late half of December 2017 and only appeared in one episode. Sam also took over as co-host of The Final Hour after Jake and Sam Wilkes Holahan departed but ultimately axed The Final Hour with the final episodes to livestream in May 2020.

He was also a co-host of Shopping Spree with Lyn until he became a permanent independent host in October 2018, following customer complaints in regards to Lyn until Shopping Spree ended in June 2019 and co-hosted The Breakfast Show until the end of 2019 to avoid risking his health even further.

Sam Wilkes Jr. announced in 2018 that he will move to Friendly Falls in 2023. However in March 2020, after hearing of his cancer detected in his check-up in December 2019, he announced that he'll have cancer treatment in April and move in with Sunny in May 2020. However, he announced later that month that he'll extend his stay until the end of June 2020 before moving to Adventure Bay for one month cancer treatment before living with Sunny on a permanent and long term basis.

In June 2018, he applied for the celebrity spotlight. In July 2018, Sam was one of the 10 finalists, one of the 5 finalists and was also one of the last three finalists. He claimed to have won the audience with a long margin of votes and was revealed as the new spotlight celebrity on July 6, 2018.

Sam Wilkes Jr. is also a non-smoker like his dad.

## Nickelodeon Events (2018 - 2019)

   Sam Wilkes Jr. appeared at several Nickelodeon events in 2018 and 2019 in SE Queensland. His first event was "Fabulous at 40" at Logan Central Plaza on 11 August 2018 and got a picture with Chase & Marshall.

He continued attending Nickelodeon events of PAW Patrol and Dora the Explorer that were within viable range inside Brisbane (these areas included Ascot, Marsden and Doomben) throughout the remainder of 2018. And outside Brisbane, he has also gone to a Nickelodeon event at Morayfield (south of Caboolture) on 17 November. He got a photo with Austin's childhood TV characters "Bananas in Pyjamas". He began appearing at limited Nickelodeon events in 2019. He gone to two Nickelodeon events in April (taking place at Ascot & Marsden, respectively) and returned to Ascot for his last one in October 2019. After the last one in October, he no longer appeared at future Nickelodeon events.

## Career (2018 - 2020)

He was the second person under the celebrity spotlight, following Sam Wilkes Holahan's resignation. Aside from his position as an Actor, he is the second and current CEO of his own VIP Office named Sam's VIP Office. He became the new CEO following Jake's resignation on March 2, 2018. Jake is the founder of Sam's VIP Office which was originally named Jake's Office.

Sam Jr. got a Lumia 532 after his dad no longer needed it as he had a Samsung Galaxy from Everest. In June 2018, the Lumia 532 started to break down and he decided to buy a temporary phone until he can afford his Samsung Galaxy. His temporary phone was a OPPO A57 which he liked very much, more notably the camera quality (much clearer than the Lumia 532) and then a couple months later, he got the Samsung Galaxy A8+ 2018 model, which is newer than his dad's Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 model.

In September 2018, after hearing about his dad accepting an offer to host the Neon Entertainment version of Ellen's Game of Games, he decided, based on his father's decision, to take on a different role with the Neon Entertainment crew instead. Sam Wilkes Jr. will still be credited in the end credits of the Game of Games, along with his father, this being the last TV show to credit both Sam Wilkes Jr. and Austin.

In January 2019, Sam Jr. announced that the Young Scientist spin-off revival will start broadcasting 20th April 2019, the day of The School Days 10th Anniversary. Austin and the crew of the original Young Scientist segment in 2011 had decided not to join the revival. A new team was then arranged, although this new spinoff would retain some of the directors and producers used for its 2011 segment on The School Days. Austin Holahan would also be credited as the creator of this show (although it was Sam Wilkes Jr.'s new series). In February, Sam temporarily hosted Celebrity Name Game while his father recovered from falling over inside the mansion. On April 9, 2019, he was somehow robbed throughout the weekend. His house was easily broken in to at this time, despite all the doors locked and all windows to his bedroom closed. He was robbed again in the early hours of September 5, 2019, despite having all access to his office and bedroom locked and closed. Sam reckons that these "thieves" find their own way in without breaking any windows or destroying any doors. He assumes that he will be robbed again in February 2020 or earlier.

On 21 April 2019, he announced that he will be leaving Our Kitchen Rules at the end of 2020, after serving for two years as series judge. He served as a third generation series judge. Instead of a new judge to take his position, his position will remain vacant. However, he has announced a few months later that as long as everything goes according to plan, he may stay beyond 2020. He became the sole series judge in November 2019 after his co-judge Lynette Tyler was demoted to judge/mentor with Jake.

He also appeared on The Breakfast Show until the show ended on 31 December 2019 to be replaced with Dinner at Uncle Jason's. He agreed to play the role of Austin Holahan in Psycho Dad: The Movie 6. Austin Holahan was supposed to portray the character but after his death in August 2019, Sam Wilkes Jr. agreed to portray the character instead. Wilkes Jr. was also the only possible candidate since he looked very similar to Holahan.

Wilkes Jr. had decided to kill of the Sam Wilkes Holahan character during Psycho Dad: The Movie 6 and effectively done so on 11 January 2020 as did Psycho Dad.

## Final months

Things were looking up for him on March 3, 2020. But it suddenly went downhill very quickly later that night when Lyn had a major stroke and Adventure Bay Hospital announcing he has stage 1 lung cancer. He plans to see Lyn in the hospital as often as he can and will remain at the house until she returns home. He was planning to depart to Adventure Bay in May or June 2020. He planned to depart northbound on May 31, 2020 for cancer treatment. He opted in to alternative treatment. During this time, he had another problem. He later diagnosed himself with constipation after a short but painful bowel movement on the evening of 17 April. He reported that it was far more painful compared to before. This was the last time he was seen.

## Death

On 20 April, he announced he will be dead by the next day. He died of suicide on the morning of 21 April 2020. He was survived by his mother Dora Marquez and his stepdad Austin Holahan. He was very young at the time of his death. His funeral will be held at Adventure Bay in the United States later in 2020. Sam Wilkes Sr. has taken over the office and renovated the office space back in to a bedroom. Sam Wilkes Jr. still had ongoing contracts with Our Kitchen Rules, The Final Hour and other shows at the time of his death. Wilkes Sr. took over the contracts up until 2021.

## Legacy

He has left a legacy. After his death, he has been mentioned a number of times. He has been mentioned on Island Life a few times. He has also left reviews on a small selection of programs. In his lifetime, he had made 13 reviews, most were children's cartoons. His last review was for the 2015 children's cartoon Little Charmers, in March 2020.

## Tyrone's Wild Behaviour Incidents (15 - 27 August 2018, 25 February 2019 - April 2020)

           On August 14/15, Tyrone (Lyn's kitten) attacked Sam Wilkes Jr. for no reason and Sam has said that what Tyrone did was "the last damn straw". Sam then said that he will move out and live in a homeless shelter, although later that day, he announced to Lyn that he will leave Sam's VIP Office and bedroom with his shoes on at all times. This is so Tyrone cannot kill Sam as Tyrone is very wild and being loving to a wild kitten will make the wild kitten think that being naughty and wild is okay. This dispute has been resolved since the updated announcement.

On 27 August, he gave Lyn an ultimatum after Tyrone just attacked Sam Jr. for no reason again. The choices were: Teach Tyrone to stop attacking Sam Jr. or Sam Jr. will ***move*** to a homeless shelter.

Sam Wilkes Jr. is very cautious near Tyrone since then but has seen an improvement with Tyrone's behaviour in October, when Tyrone reached adulthood.

Tyrone's behaviour has worsened in 2019 when he attacked Sam Wilkes Jr. again for no reason but narrowly missed him. Sam Wilkes Jr. will move to a homeless shelter if Tyrone's behaviour worsens. He decides to use self-defense against Tyrone. As the behaviour worsened, Sam had decided to move out of the house by the end of 2019. However, he never met the deadline and then extended to moving out in April 2020 but Wilkes Jr. was dead by then having died on April 21.

## TV and Filmography

***Dad's reign***

Shows in Italics means the show is cancelled or on hiatus, for certain reasons.

2020
*after Sam Wilkes Holahan's sudden departure.*
*Is a series judge since May 2018 after Austin*
*stepped down.*
*Becomes an official series judge in March 2019*
*after Austin's resignation. Currently the only*
*series judge after Lynette and Jake become*
*rival judge/mentors, making the 2018*
*nightmare a reality.*
*After Season 10 wrapped production, Sam*
*Wilkes Jr. had announced his departure and*
*was not returning for the 11th season to focus*
 2018 -
2019
*independent host in October 2018.*
 2018 -
2020
*leaving Sam Wilkes Jr. as the sole host in*
*The Final Hour in July 2019.*
*Became a co-host with Lynette in January*
*2020. Became a solo host in March 2020 until*
 *Himself (Co-*
*host)*
*Fortnight Brunch was renamed to Tuesdays with*
*Sam & Lyn in June 2018 and then The Breakfast*
*Show in May 2019 after Sam was robbed.*
*The Breakfast Show was axed in November*
*and last episode livestreamed on 31 December*
 2018 -
2019
*(Tuesdays with*
*Sam & Lyn in*
*July 2018 and*
*then The*
*Breakfast Show*
 2019
*after falling over inside the mansion.*
*Later became a permanent host following*
*Austin's death in August 2019.*

***Independent***

### Movies

*Himself*
 *Himself* | *Austin's Final Wish* | *Portrayed as Sam Wilkes Jr. and participated*
*in the protest march to West End.*
 *Sam Wilkes*
*Holahan*
*Released posthumously; pre-recorded*
*voice clips.*