Val Pollard
Fictional character from Emmerdale / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Val Pollard?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
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 had begun in a relationship with Brenda Walker (Lesley Dunlop). She moved into Diane's pub after her marriage breakdown and helped to run it while Diane was away visiting her daughter.
Val Pollard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Emmerdale character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portrayed by | Charlie Hardwick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duration | 2004–2015, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | 1 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | 25 December 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduced by | Steve Frost (2004) Iain MacLeod (2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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. She later appeared as a ghost in Robert Sugden's (Ryan Hawley) dream on 25 December 2017. For her portrayal of Val, Hardwick won the award for Best Comedy Performance at the 2006 British Soap Awards.