| Todd Wilkins | |
|---|---|
| Status | Alive |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 30 |
| Job | Sports Reporter |
| Family | Jim Wilkins(father) Mrs. Wilkins(mother) Ned Wakefield(father-in-law) Alice Wakefield(mother-in-law) Steven Wakefield(brother-in-law) Liam(brother-in-law) Jeffrey French(brother-in-law) Jake Wilkins(son) Alice Wilkins(daughter) Marjorie Wilkins(daughter) Emma Wakefield(adopted niece) |
| Spouse | Jessica Wakefield Elizabeth Wakefield(ex-girlfriend) |
| Series | |
| Series | Sweet Valley High Sweet Valley Twins Sweet Valley University |
| Portrayed by | |
| TV | Ryan Bittle (Season 1-2)
Jeremy Garrett (Season 3-4) |
Todd Wilkins is a student at Sweet Valley High in Sweet Valley, California, in the Sweet Valley books series. He was portrayed by Ryan James Bittle for the first two seasons in the Sweet Valley High TV series and after that period by JEREMY VINCENT GARRET in the last two seasons for 3 and 4.
Background[]
He is the star basketball player and captain of the basketball team at SVH (as well as the wide-receiver for the football team in the updated 2008 re-boot) and is very popular. He moved away to Vermont once in the Sweet Valley High series in book #23, but came back in book #58. Although he was still maintaining a long-distance relationship with Liz, he was seeing another girl and Jessica (while Liz herself was seeing Jeffrey French).
Personality[]
Todd is very nice and is tall and very talented in sports, especially basketball. He is not merely an athlete, but he happens to be an intellectual quite like Elizabeth herself. He is a notably bad cook, always making a mess of every culinary concoction he attempts--even when following a recipe. They share many interests and characteristics. Elizabeth and Todd are extremely compatible. He has brown hair and brown eyes, as well as broad shoulders, tall stature and a muscular physique.
Though Todd is romantically involved with Elizabeth, he has a very combative relationship with Jessica. Jessica and Todd try to get along for Elizabeth's sake, but they often argue and make mean comments about each other, such as Todd telling Jessica in the SVH TV show episode "The Stolen Diary" that her most meaningful relationship was with her mirror.
The basis for much of Jessica's animosity towards Todd is her resentment that he chose Elizabeth over her. She did manage to seduce him and turn him away from Elizabeth after her boyfriend Sam died in "The Morning After." They carried on a romance, which Todd himself felt especially guilty for. And after their affair in "Jessica's Secret Diary II," she does her best to keep her desire to be with him a secret.
Personality On The TV Show[]
In the first two seasons as Todd was played by Ryan James Bittle, the character of Todd was an arrogant alpha-male with a dominant attitude. He has a quick temper and was quick to violence, heavily prone to jealousy. He immensely was quick with a retort and overly-protective of Elizabeth. He had blonde hair and blue eyes and a tall stature.
By season Three and Four, the actor was replaced with Jeremy Vincent Garrett and the character was turned into a largely thick headed goof-ball who despite being very romantic and charming, was basically the boilerplate dumb jock-type entirely for comic relief. He wasn't just gifted as basketball, he had a knack for all sports--and was mostly a push-over whenever the girls would deal with him. The character seemed to be an exact polar opposite to Elizabeth Wakefield's personality. He did maintain his sarcasm when up against Jessica and Lila.
Relationships[]
Elizabeth Wakefield[]
Todd has a steady girlfriend, Elizabeth Wakefield, in the "Sweet Valley Twins" series when they're in the 6th grade and they have a relationship for almost all of Sweet Valley High. Liz/Todd break up in the beginning of the Sweet Valley University series. Todd is the captain of the SVH basketball team, The Gladiators. He had always wanted a motorcycle and in book #6 "Dangerous Love", he finally makes his dream come true and buys one. He later gets into a motorcycle accident with Elizabeth, leaving him with only a few cuts and bruises, while Liz goes into a coma and comes out as a totally different person.
Well, not totally different. More like JESSICA! Actually, even more Jessica than Jessica.
In the book series, both Elizabeth and Jessica have especially strong romantic feelings for Todd early on. Elizabeth is interested in being Todd, but Jessica attempts to sabotage the possibility as she wants Todd for herself. Jessica tells Todd that Elizabeth is dating someone else and tells Elizabeth than Todd is only interested in her. Eventually, Elizabeth and Todd do get together. Although they break-up repeatedly. Elizabeth and Todd repeatedly cheat on one another throughout their tenure together. Todd has a recurring affair with Jessica herself.
Todd and Liz have gotten back together and are even planning marriage only to break up for good once-and-for all when Liz finds out about Todd's rumored philandering with her sister while Jessica herself is married. At least it was what Elizabeth believed until she found out the truth about Reagan's lies from Jessica and confirming this in a USB file Bruce obtained.
In the short-lived SABAN TV series, Todd really is just devoted to Elizabeth and never even attempt infidelity despite the many that Elizabeth has behind his back. When Elizabeth leaves him and attempts to get involved with someone else, it usually backfires and she finds herself going running back to Todd. When he leaves her, Enid snatches him up and she winds up on the rebound with Todd. He attempts a date with one girl, but it's only to assert himself to Elizabeth now that she has a new boyfriend.
He does this on more than one occasion. After Elizabeth's begins a relationship with Devon Whitelaw, he's on the rebound and goes for the pining Renata Vargas. He eventually leaves Renata and finds himself wanting Elizabeth back several times, but is often too afraid of rejection and going back to her after all the betrayal. When he accidentally kisses Jessica, the two find themselves feeling something for each other and later kiss on purpose. On the show, there is no woman for him but Elizabeth, no matter how many other men she goes after. This is something Jessica maturely accepts and convinces Elizabeth to reconcile with him.
Enid Rollins[]
In the "Sweet Valley University" series, Enid's re-invented herself by going by her middle name--Alexandra--and experiments by having a relationship with Todd after her boyfriend leaves her by getting into trouble for accepting bribes. Both Alex and Todd are lost and use each other as an anchor for their time feeling lost and adrift in college. And the two even succumb to sex. Both have used alcohol as a crutch at this point.
Jessica Wakefield[]
Todd and Jessica have an adversarial relationship back in high school, but it has cooled down during the Sweet Valley University series
In "Sweet Valley Confidential", Todd and Jessica are together, but are harassed by those who believed Reagan's lies. When Steven yelled at her and threatened to disown her, he stands up for her. Todd calls him out for not telling Cara the truth about him being gay and tells Aaron about it. Todd marries Jessica and Liz gives them the best wedding present in exposing Reagan's lies, ruination of his reputation and a lengthy jail sentence.
Three years later, in The Sweet Life, they have a two-year-old son, Jake. He has an affair with co-worker, Sarah Miller, and suffers a falling out with Jessica when she discovers this. She leaves Todd, moves back in with her parents temporarily and takes Jake with her. Once hearing about the affair, Liam and Steven gives Todd a piece of their minds. He realizes how much he hurt Jessica with the affair, dumps Sarah and get back together. A few months after Jessica gives birth to Alice and Marjorie, she and Todd attend Jeffrey and Elizabeth's wedding.
Gin-Young Suh[]
Todd's 2nd serious girlfriend from Sweet Valley University. A Korean American playing in the women's basketball team. She and Todd were serious until she died from a unknown cancer.