Derek van Dorenkamp

**Derek van Dorenkamp** is a Dutch-English HGV driver and twin brother of the singer, actor, television personality and all-round superstar Eric van Dorenkamp. Having no real talents, he is often mistaken for his brother and approached by his twin brother's fans on a regular basis. He also has a secret drag persona Derique and an alien counterpart called Derek the Alien he is unaware of.

## Political views

Raised by an ardent Conservative father, Derek is a strong supporter of UKIP. During the 2016 EU referendum, Derek voted for the United Kingdom to leave the EU.

He is a vehement supporter of the slogan "England for the English".

## Relationships

### **Eric**

Derek has an odd relationship with his brother. Asides their visual appearance, the pair show no interests or traits and are quite different people. Derek in fact often get's annoyed when he is mistaken as his brother when going about his day.

One morning Derek awoke with a terrible pain coming from his rectum. As he turned over wincing he became aware of a presence in the room, it was Eric with his arms lifting open the window. To Derek's horror he suddenly realised that his brother must have slept with him, and exclaimed in disbelief, 'You didn't?' , to which Eric launched himself out the window. This was not the first time Eric had been caught in Derek's room, on one occasion Derek awake to Eric laying next to him, casually leaning on his arm in a pink dressing gown.

On one occasion, Derek and Eric accidentally bumped into one-enough in their mother's room. Eric was in the room to rummage through his mothers knicker drawer, whilst occasionally pausing to sniff or rub them on his face, whilst Derek entered the room looking to find some of his mothers clothes that he could pinch for his drag persona. Both unaware of each other's purpose for being in their mother's room whilst she was away, room the jolted and passed it as a bizarre coincidence.

### **Lorry Driver**

Derek has an on/off relationship with the Lorry Driver, an extra who appears in other sketches, particularly ones which feature Our Mate. Derek and the Driver meet up under the cover of darkness to engage in sexual relations, typically parked up in a truck stop along the side of a busy road.

On one occasion, a policeman patrolling the area rapped on their window that had steamed up. Derek and the Driver quickly put their clothes back on and fumbled for the window, slowly opening it and acknowledging the policeman. The placated policeman gave them a nod and then moved on his way.

## Drag and Derique

In his spare time Derek would enjoy getting dressed up in drag, not for any particular purpose, but because he enjoyed it. Though keeping it secret from his family and friends, one a few occasion he was seen dressed as his persona Derique at a few parties. On one occasion he awkwardly bumped into his brother Eric who had drunkenly forced himself onto his mother and was making out with her against the wall. Derek recognised him and in his deep voice said 'Eric?', breaking Eric's grasp on his mum and turning in horror to see his brother sporting a fake Coco Chanel handbag with heels and a sparkly dress.

## Personal life

### **Work life and struggles**

Derek is the most overworked character in the whole of the boot universe. Alongside his own tumultuous life of juggling being a homophobic far right nationalist with being a gay man, a drag queen and having a relationship with the Lorry Driver on the down low, he also portrays other versions of himself. These include Derek the Alien, Derek the Experiment, Derek the Ghost and Derek the Genie.

The increasing list of roles he has been made to play has become extremely difficult for him to cope with, and on occasion he has stormed off set and sequestered himself in his trailer, refusing to talk to anyone and trying to keep himself calm.

Not to mention he gets raped by his twin brother quite often.