Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jorge Garcia. Reyes at times serves as the show's comic relief but episodes focusing on him portray him in a more serious light. Hurley was born in Miami, Florida but the family moved to Santa Monica, California later on.

As a child, Hurley's father (who was helping him attempt to fix an old Camaro) left the family, and Hugo's sadness and self-doubt (believing as many abandoned children do that his father's leaving was his fault) caused him to gain weight. Later in life, Hurley was involved in an accident in which a deck (designed to hold only 8 people) collapsed as he stepped onto it, killing two people. Even though there were 23 people on the deck prior to his arrival, Hugo felt tremendous guilt and sank into a depressive state, doing nothing but overeating.

Worrying about his mental state, Hugo's mother put him in a mental institution, the same one in which Locke's mother was once treated, and also where Libby was then a patient. He met Leonard Simms, a patient who kept mumbling 4 8 15 16 23 42. Hugo also met and befriended Dave, the only other normal person, in his opinion, in the asylum, and the two would often create mischief behind the doctors' backs.

However, when Hugo learned that Dave was merely imaginary, Dave tempted Hugo to break out of the institution; he instead saw Dave out first before closing the window behind him. Having recovered from his previous stress, Hugo was released. Hugo resumed his job at a fast-food restaurant, and moved back in with his mother.

He decided to use the numbers that Leonard kept saying to play the lottery. While watching television one night, Hurley learned that he had won a 16-week roll over on the lottery, earning him $114m. He then quit his job, along with his friend Johnny, and embarked on a care-free day in which he also asked a girl he liked, Starla, on a date.

The came to an abrupt end when Johnny learned of his recent winnings. After winning the lottery, Hugo began experiencing constant cases of bad luck: his grandfather died while being interviewed live on television; his brother's wife left him for a waitress; the priest at his grandfather's funeral was struck by lightning and his friend Johnny ran off with his girlfriend Starla. Hugo then bought his mother a new house, only to discover that it had caught on fire, and he was almost immediately arrested after being mistaken for a drug dealer.

Following these mishaps, Hugo's net worth drastically increased following even more bad luck, including the death of a well-known news reporter, Tricia Tanaka after the fast food restaurant he bought was hit by a meteorite. It was then that Hugo suspected the numbers he used to win the lottery were cursed. He visited the mental institution again to speak with Leonard, who told Hugo the man who could explain the mystery of the numbers, Sam Toomey, was in Australia.

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