Colin Weatherby

Colin Weatherby is a Deputy Manager and janitor of Whitbury Leisure Centre.

Colin is a gentle, loyal and friendly character who is popular with all of his colleagues. However, he is also forgetful, disorganized, almost always late for staff meetings, highly incompetent and appears constantly dishevelled and filthy.

However, Colin is a skilled carpenter and engineer and also has an impressive knowledge of biology, woodwork, construction, science, midwifery, plants, natural foods and healthy lifestyles. Despite this, he often suffers from unpleasant medical symptoms, and often has cuts, bruises and boils, and suffers seborrhea.

One of his hands is also septic and infected and seen in a bandage throughout most of the series. (As a result of this, whenever he shakes someone's hand, a dirty piece of bandage is left behind.) Colin is accident-prone and frequently late or absent, from receiving medical attention for injuries he has sustained (then gives an disgusting explanation of this, despite Brittas telling him to be quiet). He hails from Sunderland and, like Julie, speaks with a distinctly northern English accent, in contrast to everyone else at the centre.

In series four, it is revealed that Colin has an illegitimate daughter, Stephanie, who lives in Tasmania, Australia. Colin sends her lots of letters, telling her that he is the manager or that he has done something amazing. When Stephanie comes to stay, all the staff try to help Colin by talking about all the hero acts he has done, or saying he is the manager. When Brittas finds out, he is enraged and incensed, but then does the best thing he ever does in the series: backing up Colin's stories.