DOB: 28 January 1986
Marital status: Estranged from wife Katie, living with Jo Stiles
Address: Butler’s Farm
Occupation: Farmer

First arrived
4th July 1996. With his criminal father, Billy Hopwood, locked up in prison, Andy lived with his grandmother. When she couldn’t cope, he was temporarily looked after by Jack and Sarah Sugden. When his grandmother died, he ran away from the foster family and hid out in the Sugdens’ barn. He was delighted when Jack and Sarah officially fostered him.

Character reference
Andy was an inner-city kid and a teenage tearaway, but he calmed down after Jack and Sarah adopted him and he had a sense of belonging. He can still be quick to anger but he’s settled down and has followed Jack’s lead by becoming a farmer.

Love life
Married Katie in 2004 but it soon emerged that she had been having an affair with his brother Robert. In a rage, he tried to kill them, but shot Jack by mistake and almost killed him.

He started seeing schoolgirl Debbie Dingle, to the fury of her father Cain, who beat him up. In 2005 he finished with Debbie who was, unknown to him, pregnant with his child.

He was stunned when he found out he had a daughter, Sarah. Katie returned to Emmerdale when she and her father were in a serious car accident. Her father was killed, but Katie survived and Andy kept a bedside vigil.

Reunited, the two returned to Butler’s Farm and Katie even helped bring up Andy’s child Sarah. But lurking in the background was lusty lodger Jo Stiles who played on Andy’s insecurities towards Katie and seduced him.

Having formed a close bond over their troubled childhoods, Andy left Katie and is now living at Butler’s with Jo and baby Sarah.

Memorable scene
When Andy torched the barn when he realised the insurance money would alleviate Jack’s financial problems. Unfortunately his adoptive mother Sarah was in the barn and was killed.

What next for Andy?
Andy has just unwisely told Jo that he was responsible for Sarah’s death. With Jo’s mouth as big as the Yorkshire Dales themselves, it’s only a matter of time before his step-sister Victoria, daughter to Sarah, finds out that her brother killed her mother.

The actor who plays him:
Kelvin Fletcher
Born in 1984, Kelvin grew up in Oldham. Attended Saturday morning sessions at Oldham Theatre Workshop. At the age of 12 he appeared in a number of TV shows, including Coronation Street, Heartbeat and Cracker.