Guy Braxton is a youthful-looking graphics and product design (GPD) teacher, who joins Waterloo Road penniless, sleeping a couple of nights in the school itself, then a couple of weeks at George Windsor's house. Guy finally ended up lodging with Sonya Donnegan.
He was the son of Steph Norton and the older brother of Carrie Norton.
Series 10[]

Guy and Carrie
Guy starts at Waterloo Road as an NQT, part of a fast-track programme with only six weeks training. He starts at the same time as Marco D'Olivera, also an NQT who has taken the conventional training. Guy finds himself under the mentorship of Vaughan Fitzgerald. From the off, Guy is a talented teacher, but he lacks organisation. He spends his first lesson on a wild goose chase for textbooks, something that Vaughan does not take kindly too.
From the off, Carrie Norton seems to recognise Guy, and is dismayed when she finds him at the school. Lenny Brown thinks there is something dodgy about their relationship, and films Guy hugging Carrie. Vaughan later sees this and Guy is removed from his classes, with the whole school assuming he's a pervert. It later transpires that Carrie is his sister and Guy was kicked out of the family home after he punched his stepfather Terry and landed him in hospital, following which Terry left his wife, Guy's mother Steph Norton, leaving her heartbroken. Steph insists that Vaughan sack Guy as she does not want Carrie to have anything to do with him. Guy is allowed to stay at Waterloo Road.
Marco D'Olivera sees Guy as an 'underqualified beach bum' and takes an immediate dislike to him. The two constantly bicker. It starts with Marco assuming Guy is a new pupil, something he is later embarrassed about. Eventually this leads to them trying to get each other into trouble, Guy telling Lorna Hutchinson how Marco left a mock exam unattended, and in return Marco stealing tools from Guy's classroom, jeopardising his mock exam and landing Guy with an official warning from Vaughan. This feud stops when Guy rescues Marco after Dale Jackson locks him in a cupboard. The two later bond, and Marco confesses to stealing Guy's tools, for which Guy thumps him in the face.
In Series 10 Episode 17, Guy has his lessons monitored by George Windsor and Audrey McFall, who realise there is absolutely nothing wrong with his teaching, just his lack of organisation. Guy is taken off report, and is allowed to stay.
Throughout the series Guy has no place to live and no money, due to university debts. He first lodges at the school, and is almost rumbled by Dale Jackson and Lenny Brown, however several items including toothbrushes and wash bags fall out of his cupboard in front of Vaughan. This and the fact that several items of food have been stolen from the staffroom lead to Vaughan discovering Guy's secret. However Vaughan keeps this quiet as long as Guy finds himself a place to live. George Windsor agrees to take him in for two days, but it is not until two weeks later that George throws Guy out, fed up of living with a 'teenager'. Guy then finds himself as Sonya Donnegan's lodger, who has a crush on him. However it is later revealed that Guy is gay, after Sonya sees him letting a man out of her flat one morning, which initially causes tension between the two of them.
Guy also gets the wrong end of the stick when he sees Sonya crying after coming back from an appointment to get cancer test results, and thinks she has been told she has cancer, when in actuality she had been told that the lump she had found was benign. Guy ends up telling everyone in the staffroom that Sonya has cancer, and Sonya fails to bring herself to tell the truth until the situation had snowballed out of hand, after Rob Hutchinson had convinced her to nearly use her 'cancer story' to help save the school.
Guy is last seen in Episode 20, convincing his pro-merger mother to question Selina Wilson from the council about the expansion of Havelock that was supposedly going to take place to accommodate the influx of Waterloo Road students post-merger had the merger gone ahead, after finding out that the project had no architects on board after sacking the previous ones.
Behind the scenes[]
In 2020, Guy's actor Regé-Jean Page appeared in the Netflix drama series Bridgerton alongside Phoebe Dynevor, who appeared on Waterloo Road as student Siobhan Mailey in Series 5.
Quotes[]
- "I didn't think it would be this hard to find my way around!" (first line)
- "And after that I need a good talking to. As I'm still in school at 23, I'm guessing I have not been paying attention in class."
- "Not every bloke in a hoodie's a teenage delinquent."
- Guy: "Sorry. Got...held up. Ah. Looks like it's just you and me against the world, buddy."
- Marco: "I'll be fine on my own, thanks."
- "OK. We'll just have to make sure she doesn't find out this time, won't we? I gotta get to the staffroom, start charming everyone. Don't worry."
- Guy: "Then it would be the same as it always is. You in my face, shouting the odds, and her stuck in the middle. Mum and I haven't spoken in a year. She doesn't let me see Carrie."
- Steph: "Tell them why. Tell them!"
- Guy: "It was an accident."
- Steph: "He overreacted to some stupid argument."
- Guy: "You didn't hear what he said."
- Steph: "Punched his stepdad so hard in the face, he put him in hospital!"
- Guy: "Well maybe if you stood up for me once in a while, then it wouldn'ta come to that, would it?!"
- Steph: "He left me after that. You ruined my life!"
- Guy: "Yeah? What do you think having a mother like you did to mine?"
- "You'd really try and dismantle my career before it's begun? Just out of spite? I'm glad I hit Terry, d'you know why? It got me away from you."
- Guy: "You know what? You've done nothing but pick at me all day. Teaching's my first choice, I didn't fail at another career before I got here."
- Marco: "I didn't fail. I just...you know, I needed a change."
- Guy: "Teach Direct's hard graft. I got two years of assessment and training ahead of me, and if this merger goes ahead and there's only one job at the end, I'm gonna make damn sure it's me that gets it. Get ready to be shown up by an underqualified beach bum."
- "Right. You heard of Emily Dickinson? She's an American poet, Carrie loves her. Believe me. You find her one of her poems, she will melt."
- "Yeah! It was me. Do you think I wanted to? You guys got grants, I got debts. I can't even afford the desposit on a crummy little flat, so, I'm-I'm sorry that I stole your food, but I've got nowhere else to go and no money. I'll put it all back when I get paid."
- Marco: "I'm not gonna lose my career over today, am I?"
- Guy: "My sister nearly lost her sight!"
- "I mean, hey, maybe next week, you can teach your pupils to blow up the school!"
- Guy: "Hey. Sorry about that thing with Lorna."
- Marco: "I'm sure that moment will keep you warm in the car tonight."
- Guy: "Ah, actually, got new digs. Think Sonya's a red or a white wine kinda girl? Gonna make an effort, first night as flatmates. Hey, maybe I'll play it safe, bottle of something fizzy!"
- Sonya: "See? They hate me."
- Guy: "No, they don't. Just...easy on the whole bright-and-breezy thing, you know? Take it down a notch or...ten."
- Carrie: "School's not going to be the same, though, is it, if the merger goes ahead? Just saying, I'd rather things stayed the way they are, I've learned loads from Waterloo Road! I'm happy here!"
- Guy: "Psht, forget that! Happy doesn't count, does it, Mum?"
- "And you believed her? Mum, you and me are never gonna agree on this stuff, but please. For Carrie's sake, not mine." (final line)