London Tipton
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| London Tipton | |
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 London Tipton in Odd Couples |
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| First appearance | Hotel Hangout |
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| Age | 16 |
| Occupation | Student at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow |
| Family | Mr. Wilfred Tipton Brandi Tipton Yolanda Ivana |
| Episode count | All except Birdman of Boston and Have A Nice Trip |
| Portrayed by | Brenda Song |
London Leah Tipton is a fictional character in the comedy television show The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She is portrayed by actress Brenda Song. The character is similar to Paris Hilton: both their first names are famous European cities and their last names are names of the hotel to which their families own. Their actions are seemingly similar as well.
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[edit] Background
London Tipton is the rich, air-headed, spoiled, and sometimes selfish teenage daughter of Wilfred Tipton. London's parents are divorced and she lives in the Boston branch of the Tipton Hotel chain, which she will inherit from her father. London, being very wealthy, often goes overseas, wears expensive clothing, and shops a lot to mask ill feelings she harbors over her family life. Though she often treats them badly, she is friends with other show characters, such as twins Zack and Cody, as well as her best friend and the hotel's candy counter girl, Maddie Fitzpatrick.
Despite being pampered, London misses some things that middle-class teenagers have—a fact which was revealed during Poor Little Rich Girl. Among the things she misses are having her parents by her side and not being able to do things normal teenagers do, such as sleepovers. She confessed to Maddie when she was at Maddie's apartment, that it was her first sleepover.
Her father has been largely absent from her life, and Mr. Moseby, the Tipton Hotel manager, acts as a surrogate. She took her first steps, in designer booties, with him. He also taught her how to ride a bike. Mr. Moseby also taught London the alphabet, which he said took 14 years.
London is portrayed as very attractive and glamorous, even as a small child, and won the Mini Miss beauty pageant in 1999. Even though she is something of a celebrity, she has an obsessive problem with other celebrities as seen and heard in "Rock Star in the House". She also wears only famous-name designer clothes, her favorite being the fictional "Arturo Vittali". She also claims that even her diapers were made by famous designers and will not knowingly wear designs by unknowns such as That's So Raven's Raven Baxter. However she changes her mind when she see Hannah Montana likes the outfit.
London has also been shown to have a talent for volleyball, but is only good at it when she is angry. The first time this is shown is when a girl on the opposing team insults her. It is shown again when Maddie kisses her boyfriend, thus making her furious. She is also good at martial arts and chess (even defeating Maddie).
London is believed to be catholic, seeing as she attends Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, a catholic school. However, it is mentioned in the episode "Big Hair & Baseball" that she celebrates Hanukkah as well, and when Maddie reminds London that she is not Jewish, London retorts that she "would never skip eight days of presents."
[edit] Family
London's parents are divorced and her father has been seen in only one episode (from neck down), while her mother has never been shown. London's father has four ex-wives and many girlfriends. Out of Mr. Tipton's relationships, only London's current stepmother, Brandi Tipton, has actually been seen, though London has a bracelet with solid gold charms representing all of her stepmothers. London has no biological siblings. She has a stepsister named Yolanda. (Yolanda is the daughter from one of Mr. Tipton's relationships.) London has one dog, a spoiled pomeranian, named Ivana. She also mentioned having a cat named Cat, in Club Twin.
[edit] Strength
It is shown in many episodes that London is very strong and athletic. She trains Maddie for P.E, plays volleyball, and beat up a thug who attempted to steal her purse in the street. She is also shown to practice yoga.
[edit] Chess
In the episode Smart & Smarterer London proved to be very good at playing chess, even defeating Maddie. Before their first game London didn't even know what chess was. Maddie taught her how to move the pieces during the first game and was then defeated by London.
[edit] Relationships
London has dated numerous boys during the show:
- In the episode "Maddie Checks In", she and Maddie double date with two boys named Jason and Kyle.
- In "Scary Movie" she pretends to be poor to attract a boy named Brandon (Tahj Mowry).
- When she masquerades as a merit scholar for a boy named Trevor, played by Zac Efron, in "Odd Couples," she ends up losing him to Maddie (although, she didn't seem to mind).
- In "Volley Dad" she dates Joe, a boy from her school, though once again this relationship was brief. (London has never had a stable romantic partner.)
- In the episode "Cookin' With Romeo and Juliet," London falls for the heir of the St. Mark Hotel across the street from the Tipton. His name is Todd, and at first she only likes him for his looks and money, but later realizes that she is in fact in love with everything about him. The managers of both the Tipton and the St. Mark will not allow London and Todd's relationship to develop due to the fact that the two hotels are rivals and their fathers hate each other. When Todd is accepted to a dentist's school in another country, London tells him to go, ending their relationship. This has been the only case of "true love" that London has experienced.
[edit] Shared with Maddie
There has also been cases in which she and Maddie like the same boy:
- In "Twins at the Tipton", she and Maddie both like Kirk but Maddie agrees to go out with his smarter twin brother. To Maddie's dismay the smarter twin is also the "doofus" twin.
- In "Ah! Wilderness!" London gets very upset when Maddie dates her ex-boyfriend.
- In "Rock Star in the House" London and Maddie become obsessed with Jesse McCartney. However while Maddie wants to interview him for her school paper, London wants to marry him.
[edit] External link
| The Suite Life of Zack & Cody |
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| Characters |
| Zack Martin | Cody Martin | Madeline Fitzpatrick | London Tipton | Ivana Tipton | Marion Moseby | Carey Martin | Esteban Ramírez | Arwin Hawkhauser | Minor characters |
| Episodes |
| List of episodes | That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana |
| Settings |
| The Tipton Hotel |
| Media |
| Tipton Trouble |
| Related |
| That's So Raven | Hannah Montana | It's a Laugh Productions, Inc. |
