Tug did not have a good upbringing and as a result he is "unsure of himself". She still hoped for a future for the two characters because Tug needs attention and Sarah is always there to give him understanding. She concluded that while they are two different people, they get on well with each other. Sarah begins to date Nathan Roberts (David Dixon). Dixon told Richard Galpin from BIG! magazine that Tug initially "hates" and then "loves" Nathan. But through Sarah he ends up hating him once again. In one scene Tug and Nathan get into a fight over Sarah. Dixon said "we had one scene where I had to call Tug a jerk and then he'd give me a gentle push back. When we came to do it for real, instead of a gentle tap, he gave me a huge shove and I was like, 'Hey that really hurt mate'". Dixon suspected that a relationship between the two made Bancks push him harder. Following his break-up with Sarah, Tug loses his job and she tells him that their relationship is over for good. The series of events impact negatively on Tug and he becomes "despairing and suicidal". He takes a car and drives it into a telegraph pole and is hospitalised. Bancks told Fletcher that he could understand how Tug felt and his predicament was made worse without any parents to offer guidance. Bancks carried out research such as watching a programme based on teenage suicide. The experience made Bancks feel depressed the more he studied the issue. Tug and Sarah romance became popular and Fletcher from Woman's Own said that had become one of the show's "hottest couples". Bancks told Fletcher that "spending eight hours a day as [the] teenage sweethearts" Tug and Sarah had created a mutual attraction between himself and Vaquez. The pair were pictured as a couple in magazines and wrote stories about them. This annoyed producers because they felt that it was spoiling the image Home and Away had created and the actors quickly denied a relationship. Relationship with Beth Armstrong In 1994 Toni Pearen was cast as new teacher Beth Armstrong. Photographers from BIG! magazine visited Pearen to take promotional shots. They revealed that she is Tug's teacher and that the two characters would "snog" on-screen. A writer from Inside Soap reported that romance was "blossoming for luckless Tug" and Beth. However, another