{"id":24423,"date":"2025-01-21T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmerdale-insider.com\/?p=24423"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:48:57","slug":"pauline-quirke-emmerdale-hazel-actress-reveals-sad-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/characters\/pauline-quirke-emmerdale-hazel-actress-reveals-sad-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Quirke: Her years in Emmerdale as tragic Hazel as actress reveals sad diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauline Quirke is a familiar face to Emmerdale fans having played devoted mum Hazel Rhodes for two years.<\/p>

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Pauline may have shot to fame as Sharon in BBC comedy Birds of a Feather but she won a whole host of new fans when she joined Emmerdale in 2010 as Hazel.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything Hazel got up to in her time in the village.<\/p>\n

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Hazel\u2019s time in the village wasn\u2019t happy (Credit: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Hazel\u2019s arrival<\/h2>\n

Hazel turned up in Emmerdale in the summer of 2010 without warning to surprise son Jackson Walsh \u2013 Aaron\u2019s boyfriend. She and Aaron<\/a> immediately butted heads but they did grow to get along.<\/p>\n

In October that year, Jackson was in an accident and paralysed from the neck down. Hazel stuck around to help care for her son. She was an art teacher and started running classes for the villagers.<\/p>

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