The character was subsequently alluded to in episodes of the third and fourth series, which centred on Tony's sister Effy, played by Kaya Scodelario.

In the 2011 American adaptation of the show, Tony is played by actor James Newman, and the character's surname is changed to Schneider.

Tony appears to be a very handsome, popular and academically gifted young man, with a typical English middle-class background.

In "Sid", he displays his love for "control and manipulation" and fondness for the unpredictability of the universe, comparing the lives of those around to him to the functions of subatomic particles.

In the Unseen Skins episode "The Cat & The Duck", Michelle characterises Tony as like ice, "cold and transparent.

[1] In the British series, Tony fits the older television and film archetype of the "narcissistic, controlling, and stereotypically sociopathic 'bad bisexual'".

In "Tony", the book he reads in the bathroom is La Nausée by Jean-Paul Sartre, a novel about existentialism and defining oneself.

In "Sid", he is shown reading Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a book which challenges existing moral values.

In "Maxxie and Anwar" he reads Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a book about a young girl struggling with her homosexuality.

In the "Tony" episode of series 2, he is seen reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, while sitting on the train.

In the episode "Tony", he attempts to help his best friend Sid to lose his virginity before turning 17 for fear of being associated with a perceived loser.

Enraged, Michelle walks over to, punches and subsequently dumps him after he fails to tell her about his encounter with Maxxie, and she learns of various other affairs.

He takes sexual pictures of Abigail, and then transmits them to Josh's phone, from where he sends them to Michelle in order to make her think he's as crazy as his sister.

Michelle is left staring at her phone as, elsewhere, Effy holds his bleeding body in shock, and the episode ends with Tony's status unclear.

In "Sketch", Tony starts to show visible signs of his previous affection for Michelle, but the consequences of his accident keep the relationship from working.

Later on, he actively searches for her after the school play when Michelle does not appear as a result of Sketch (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) having poisoned her.

He tells Michelle that he thinks he told her that he loved her the night of his accident; however, the conclusion is left on a slightly ambiguous note on whether or not he was guessing.

On the train ride up to a university open day – Tony is approached by a man who has visible horrific burns.

Later on, Tony attends an open day at university, where he is in group interview with the same (now unscathed) man he met on the train.

Katie also mentions Tony and his popularity in one of her first conversations with Effy saying "Didn't you have a brother who was really cool and went mental, my friends fancied him".