Betty Eagleton
| Betty Eagleton | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
|||||||||
| Emmerdale character | |||||||||
| Portrayed by | Paula Tilbrook | ||||||||
| Duration | 1994–2015 | ||||||||
| First appearance | 12 April 1994 | ||||||||
| Last appearance | 25 December 2015 | ||||||||
| Introduced by | Mervyn Watson | ||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||
| Profile | |||||||||
| Occupation | Cleaner (retired) | ||||||||
| Home | Australia | ||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Father | Arthur Prendegast |
|---|---|
| Mother | Nora Prendegast |
| Sisters | Margaret Prendegast |
| Husband | Wally Eagleton (backstory) |
Elizabeth "Betty" Eagleton (also Prendegast) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, played by Paula Tilbrook. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 12 April 1994. Tilbrook announced her departure from the soap on 17 April 2015 and Betty departed on 25 May 2015. She made a cameo appearance on 25 December 2015 during a video call with some of the village residents. Betty was perhaps best known for her habit of gossiping about the residents of the village, her love of sherry and her relationship with Seth Armstrong (Stan Richards).
Betty Prendagast was born in Beckindale on the 22 January, the year is only known to her as she is very reticent about her age. Her parents were Arthur and Nora and she had a sister, Margaret.
Betty left Beckindale in the early 1950s to work as a tiller girl in London, and was also on the game. She met a man called Reggie Wilkie and he got her pregnant. On seeing him with another woman, she had an abortion which made her unable to have children. She then returned to Beckindale and married old school friend, Wally Eagleton, in 1954. After 39 years of marriage, Wally died in 1993 and Betty returned to Beckindale after living in Filey.
As Betty arrived in 1994, she soon became associated as one of the village gossipers. A former flame of Seth Armstrong (Stan Richards), she came to town looking for him. Betty soon settled in and hosted a 1940s theme night in The Woolpack at Christmas 1994. Betty stood up for what she believed in, and even tried to call off Zoe Tate's (Leah Bracknell) lesbian wedding in 1996.
In 1999, Betty auditions to be part of a Spice Girls tribute act, but is rejected by Kelly Windsor (Adele Silva) because of her age, referring to her as "wrinkly spice".
...
Wikipedia