London Tipton

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London Tipton <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2">Image:Quack.jpg </td> </tr>
First appearance	Hotel Hangout
Statistics <tr> <th>Age</th> <td>16</td> </tr><tr> <th>Occupation</th> <td>None</td> </tr><tr> <th>Family</th> <td>Mr. Wilfred Tipton (dad) Brandi Tipton (stepmom) Yolanda (stepsister) Ivana (pet dog)</td> </tr><tr> <th>Episode Count</th> <td>All but Birdman of Boston and Have A Nice Trip</td> </tr><tr> <th>Portrayed by</th> <td>Brenda Song</td> </tr>

London Leah Tipton is a fictional character in the comedy television show The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. She is portrayed by actress Brenda Song. The character's name is similar to Paris Hilton: both their first names are European cities and their last names are hotels.

1 Background
2 Relationships
3 Family
4 External link

[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 an episode in which she stayed over at Maddie's apartment. 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 that when she was at Maddie's apartment, 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.

London is portrayed as very attractive and glamorous, even as a small child, and won the Miss 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" (obvious play on Gianni Versace S.p.A.).

[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, briefly. London has never had a stable romantic relationship.
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.

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] Family

London's parents are divorced and her father has been seen in only one episode (from neck down; his face was not shown), 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 but she has a stepsister named Yolanda. (Yolanda is the daughter of a woman from one of Mr. Tipton's courtships.) She has one dog, a spoiled pedigree, named Ivana.