Tendayi Jembere aka TJ, Tee J is a British actor who is best known for his part in the 2003 television show ''

Kerching! ''Kerching!'' was a children's comedy drama which aired on CBBC between 2003 and 2006. The show follows the life of teenage dot-com entrepreneur Taj Lewis, along with his two friends, Seymour Franklin and Danny Spooner. Cast Episodes Ser ...

'', where he played the character of Seymour, the best friend of lead character Taj Lewis.

Biography

He grew up in East London. Tendayi Jembere's first television part was in the

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hit sitcom ''Kerching!'' where he played the main character's best friend, Seymour a cooking expert and also the junior partner of the successful company RudeBoy. He owned 1% of Rudeboy's takings which were in the thousands by that period of time in the show's history. ''Kerching'' has so far run for more than four series and has been repeated heavily after six on the

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. It repeated all of the series straight after each other and made ''Kerching'' even more successful.

''Kerching''

Fourteen-year-old Taj Lewis is a bright lad hoping to make his family a million pounds, and to this end has launched a website under the name 'rude boy'. His family and pals are (as described in the credit sequence) Seymour and Danny, his best friends; Missy, his big sister; Kareesha, her best friend; Ricardo, Taj's rival; and Tasmin, Ricardo's girlfriend. Completing the main line-up are Taj's little brother Omar and their single mum, who works as a nurse. (Taj's father has died.) Missy and Kareesha work in the Chill Out Grill where Taj and his friends hang out and hatch their get-rich-quick schemes, some of which actually work. Tendayi Jembere next appeared in ''Mr Harvey Lights a Candle'' (2005), a TV series where he played the character of Sid Williams.

Career highlights

2007 - Micheal Baxter in ''

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'' 2007 - Tendayi Jembere is recently in a popular viewer vote television show on MTV Base, MTV One, Channel 4, 4+1, and E4 called ''

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'', where the viewers decide what happens next through voting online or text via mobile phone.(he plays a character called "Minus") 2011 - Jembere appears as Chuggs in ''

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'' by

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at the Royal Exchange in

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then at the Lyric Theatre in

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