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Mr. John Kennedy, usually referred to as "Paedo Kennedy", is a secondary character of The Inbetweeners. He is a geography teacher at Rudge Park Comprehensive in the United Kingdom. Despite the fact he is considered as a secondary character, he only has two episode appearances and exclusively in the Series 3 Trailer. He is rumoured and likely to be a paedophile. John is portrayed by actor Waen Sheperd.
Background[]
Characterisation[]
Personality[]
As mentioned earlier, Rudge Park students rumour John to be a paedophile and his acts visible in episodes prove these claims against him. A rumour mentioned in an episode is that he was allegedly caught in Rudge Park's music cupboard, masturbating over the orchestra.
Appearances[]
The Field Trip[]
Gilbert dragging Kennedy out of the boys' dorm
In The Field Trip, Kennedy was asked by student Neil Sutherland if he could help him collect samples with him for the geography field trip, located in Swanage, to which he agreed to. Later, he went swimming with Sutherland and gave him Speedos, as a subsitute for swimming trunks and bought him a bottle of vodka from an off-licence in return. He also told him to make sure the head of sixth form Phil Gilbert did not find out about the swimming, referred to as "skinny-dipping" by his friends or the alcohol. Later that night, Kennedy entered Sutherland and his friends' dorm and inappropriately massages his legs. Whilst this awkward moment was happening, Gilbert walked in and escorted him out, and then gave the boys a deep stare, because they were holding back laughter. Whilst Gilbert was taking him out of the room, Kennedy was making-up excuses to why he was doing it. He also said "Swimming's tiring. Are your legs tired?" while doing this.
Kennedy offering Sutherland a towel
At the end of this episode, a brief segment showed Kennedy with a towel just in case Sutherland was wet from a boat incident.
The Fashion Show[]
Kennedy is seen in the episode The Fashion Show as a volunteer to help dress the male models for Rudge Park's Charity Fashion Show. Later, he went backstage because there was a complaint of harrassment from the girl models. When he went backstage, he saw Sutherland and completely forgot about the girls' complaints and tried to take Sutherland's clothes off, assuming he was modelling, when actually he volunteered as another dresser, thinking he would dress girls, so he could see their private parts, but instead it was the boys. Sutherland clarified that he was not a model, to which Kennedy replied with "Oh. You should be.", making it obvious he wanted to see him naked.
Later, he approached Sutherland again, while drunk and said "Right. Let's get you out of these clothes.", despite the fact that he had already stated that he was not modelling. Kennedy said that he "had a word with the man", making it fine for him to undress Sutherland, but this was a false claim. When he tried doing this, the fashion show had already finished ten minutes prior.
Friendships[]
Mr. Gilbert[]
Gilbert is most-likely friends with Kennedy because a lot of the time when catches him doing all of these actions, that assume paedophilia, he will always remove him from the situation, saying something along the lines of "Come on, John." In The Fashion Show, he whispered to him "I'm putting my fucking neck on the line for you, John.", which makes it seem like he is sympathetic towards him, which he is not to anyone else, making it look like they are friends.
Trivia[]
- Besides the incidents mentioned above, a staff meeting in the Rudge Park Yearbook cites numerous incidents of Gilbert telling Kennedy to be quiet when he mentions issues relating to his "sexual orientation". This could be due to the fact that they are friends, or the most likely explanation is that Gilbert wants to protect the school from bad publicity.