Danny Van Zandt
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| Daniel Van Zandt | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Gender |
Male |
| Eye color |
Brown |
| Hair color |
Black |
| Born |
1990 |
| Family |
Mr. Van Zandt (father) |
| Relationships | |
| Title(s) |
Danny |
| Behind the scenes | |
| First appearance |
Ghost In The Machine |
| Portrayer | |
Daniel 'Danny' Van Zandt (born 1990) is a Canadian student who attends Degrassi Community School. Danny is the brother of Liberty Van Zandt, and best friend of Derek Haig. He is the quarterback for the Degrassi Football Team. He is portrayed by Dalmar Abuzeid.
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[edit] Season 4 (9th grade)
Danny is first introduced as Liberty's somewhat annoying, immature brother and one of J.T.'s best friends. Danny's sister, Liberty, falls in love with J.T. Yorke, but Danny and J.T. are friends. Danny is mad at J.T. for dating his sister and he thinks J.T. isn't good enough for Liberty. Danny said, "She's the smartest person in the school and you don't even have an IQ! You don't deserve her." Danny and J.T. fight and Liberty is mad at J.T. when he pushes Danny to the ground, making his head bleed. Danny feels sorry for his sister and makes sure that Liberty and J.T. make it up.
[edit] Season 5 (10th grade)
Danny is the second one to find out that J.T. got Liberty pregnant, after Toby. He gets mad at J.T. and is determined to make J.T. pay for his mistakes. He does that by making J.T. do his homework (including taking care of a baby for family planning). Later, Danny realizes that he should be supportive and does so. The baby ends up being a boy. And then J.T. gets stabbed, and Liberty finds him on the ground.
[edit] Season 6-7 (11th grade)
Peter, believing that him and Darcy had sex and not knowing what to do or who to tell, tells Danny and Derek. Since they can never keep a secret, they tell the whole school. Danny gets into a fight with Lucas (a Lakehurst student) because Lucas insults J.T. by saying J.T. "asked for it" (the stabbing). After the fight, Derek and Danny get into an argument in Media Immersion, causing Darcy to tell them to be quiet. Mr. Simpson over hears and they all get detention. Later in the year Peter, Danny, Derek, and Lakehurst's Rachel work together on a "How to" video. Both Danny and Derek like Rachel and after she rejects Derek she asks Danny out. Derek comes over the next day saying that they need to "dump" Rachel because she rejected Derek. Derek then realizes after both Danny and Rachel have turtle neck sweaters on and then sees Danny's hickie and then claims that Danny "stole" Rachel from Derek ending their friendship. Derek tries to get even with Danny by putting panties into Danny's bag, making it look like he was going to steal them. When he is checked by the racist sells clerk and she finds the panties. He and Rachel make a run for it which gets Rachel upset. Later once Derek finds out that the woman was racist, he feels bad, remakes the video and ends up apologizing to him in front of the class in the project.
[edit] Season 8-9 (12th grade)
Now a senior, Danny is the quarterback for the Degrassi Football Team and begins to show interest in Mia after they do a fashion show together. They approach the beginnings of a relationship, but when new girl Leia tells Danny that Mia slept with football star Tom Blake to become the new T'Bombz girl, he breaks it off with her before it even starts. Danny and Leia are shown to have become close friends, leading Derek to ask Danny to help hook him up with her. He does and makes a deal with Leia to interfere with them on the date, when he shows up he realizes that he does in fact have feelings for Leia and leaves. Later on he watches her dance and Derek tells him to go for it, since he hooked him up, rekindling their friendship. Afterward they share a kiss together and start going out.
In Waiting For A Girl Like You, Leia confides in Chantay about her rocky relationship with Danny, Chantay suggests she break up with him to make him want to win her back. She has ulterior motives in this, however, as she has been harboring a big crush on him for a while. When Danny doesn't ask her back and instead turns his interests to Chantay, she feels conflicted as she wants to be his girlfriend but doesn't want to betray Leia as a friend. She tells Danny the whole truth behind the break-up and that he should get back with Leia, but it turns out he wasn't happy and wanted to get out of it anyway. Danny and Chantay decide that after an acceptable waiting period, the two of them will start dating.
[edit] Relationships
- Rachel
- Start Up: Got My Mind Set On You
- Broke Up: Got My Mind Set On You
- Reason: Rachel thought Danny stole the clothes, but stayed friends with him after Derek confessesd to the class that he slipped the clothes in Danny's bag and apologized to Danny
- Mia Jones
- Start Up: "Uptown Girls, Part 1" (801)
- Broke Up: "Uptown Girls, Part 2" (802)
- Reason: Danny finds out Mia slept with Tom Blake to get a modeling job
- Start Up: "Bad Medicine" (810)
- Broke Up: "Waiting For A Girl Like You" (909)
- Reason: Chantay suggest to Leia that she should break up with him, so he'll come back. Danny didn't come back and was going to break up anyway.
- Chantay Black
- Start Up: "Waiting For A Girl Like You" (909)
