Val Lambert
| Val Pollard | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Emmerdale character | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Charlie Hardwick | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2004–2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 1 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 31 August 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Steve Frost | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Barmaid Pub Landlady Businesswoman B&B Landlady |
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| Sisters | Diane Sugden |
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| Husband | Eric Pollard (2008–2015) |
| Sons | Paul Lambert |
| Daughters | Sharon Lambert |
| Adoptive daughters | Amy Wyatt |
| Stepsons | David Metcalfe (2008–2015) |
| Granddaughters | Alice |
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| Other relatives |
Gabby Thomas Diane Willis |
Valerie "Val" Pollard (also Lambert) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, played by Charlie Hardwick. She made her first screen appearance in the episodes broadcast on 1 February 2004. Val was introduced as the sister of established character Diane Sugden (Elizabeth Estensen). She later married Eric Pollard (Chris Chittell). Hardwick took a three-month break from Emmerdale to appear in a play, and the character left on 10 February 2012. Val returned in June 2012 and was surprised to learn that Eric was in a relationship with Brenda Walker (Lesley Dunlop). She moved into Diane's pub, after her marriage breakdown, and helped run it while Diane was away visiting her daughter. In 2014, Val was told that she was HIV positive, after a holiday fling while she was in Portugal. In 2015, it was announced that Hardwick had quit the soap. Val was killed-off on 6 August 2015 in the highly-publicised "Summer Fate" storyline, which saw a helicopter crash into the village. She made several appearances afterwards as a ghost to Eric and on a videotape describing her final wishes. Her final on-screen appearance aired on 31 August 2015.
Val arrives in Emmerdale in February 2004, surprising her sister, Diane. Their relationship has always been difficult as Diane had helped bring Val up after their mother died. Upon her arrival, Val has a black eye, which she had tells Diane is her ex-boyfriend, Eugene's, fault. When Eugene Brown (John Axon) arrives, he reveals that Val persuaded him to pay for her nose job before fleeing. Always on the lookout for the next man to fund her lifestyle, Val is delighted to find her ex-brother-in-law, (Patrick Mower) living in Emmerdale and is now a millionaire. They soon begin a relationship and Val works with Diane in the pub. Val, never happy with just one man and cheats on Rodney with his much younger employee Danny Daggert (Cleveland Campbell). She eventually chooses Rodney, believing him to be the better long term choice. However, when Diane is diagnosed with colon cancer, Rodney is devastated and realizes that he is still in love with her. Diane rejects him but he ends his relationship with Val. Furious and rejected, Val goes to Italy to visit her son Paul (Matthew Bose) and his partner, Enzo Biannchi (Daniel D'Alessandro), returning for Diane’s wedding to Jack Sugden (Clive Hornby) with a man half her age but this is quickly revealed to be a lie.
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