Spencer Gray is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Darren John Langford.

The introduction of Spencer, a new on-screen relative of established character Warren Fox, was first announced in October 2008.

[1] Langford also credited his early chemistry, with Jamie Lomas, during the audition process, as helping him settle into the role.

[3] In early 2010, it was announced that Lucy Allan had stepped down from the position of executive producer and that Paul Marquess had taken over the role.

[4] It was soon revealed that Marquess planned to give Hollyoaks a "shake up", changing the production's team[5] and beginning a cast cull by axing three established characters.

[6] Stephanie Waring (who plays Cindy Hutchinson) then revealed that all remaining cast members feared their character would be axed.

[7] One month later, Marquess announced his plans to axe a further 11 characters, including Spencer at the end of Langford's contract.

[1] Fellow cast members have commented that he is shown to act in a manner that corresponds to those in their twenties, yet in a 'less adult way'.

This clearly showed Spencer's unwillingness to accept his death because he was easily manipulated by Ash Roy, who used his learning difficulties to his advantage.

[citation needed] Spencer later began walking the village where Theresa McQueen, Anita Roy and Lauren Valentine got him to buy alcohol.

Warren was later accused of murder and began losing his temper even more, Spencer then stood up to him telling him to leave Sasha alone.

When he sees Jake Dean being pulled away by the police, Spencer feels guilty, so he confides in Calvin on what he should do.

This then leads to Spencer being interrogated by the police at the station, where his inability to defend himself worsens however all charges are dropped.

"[9] In 2009 Ruth Deller of entertainment website Lowculture who runs a monthly feature of the most popular and unpopular soap opera characters, profiled Spencer, calling him an irritating character, also stating: "So good he doesn’t have a surname, with some sort of learning difficulty that’s also as-yet unnamed, Spencer’s only purpose seems to be to make Warren sympathetic.

[...] Hollyoaks has questionable morality at the best of times, and we’d maybe forgive them the addition of Spencer if he was a well-acted likeable character with a specific difficulty that was portrayed accurately.