{"id":40566,"date":"2025-06-05T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/?p=40566"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:12:13","slug":"val-pollard-everything-need-know-about-dramatic-decade-emmerdale-hiv-diagnosis-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/characters\/val-pollard-everything-need-know-about-dramatic-decade-emmerdale-hiv-diagnosis-tragic-death\/","title":{"rendered":" Val Pollard in Emmerdale: Everything you need to know from her HIV diagnosis to her tragic death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Val Pollard in Emmerdale was the vibrant, no-nonsense, hilarious love of Eric\u2019s life, sister of Diane Sugden, auntie of Bernice Blackstock<\/a>, and one-time secret lover of her brother-in-law Rodney Blackstock.<\/p>

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She arrived in the village like a whirlwind, and left in dramatic \u2013 and totally tragic \u2013 circumstances. She\u2019s still missed by Emmerdale viewers and she\u2019s still mentioned often.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything you need to know about Valerie Pollard.<\/p>\n

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Val Pollard arrives in Emmerdale<\/h2>\n

Bubbly Val Lambert arrived in Emmerdale in 2004 to see her sister Diane. Diane had pretty much brought Val up after the death of their parents and their relationship was close but fractious!<\/p>\n

Val started as she meant to go on in the village. She was sporting a black eye when she arrived and told everyone she\u2019d been beaten by her boyfriend Eugene. But when Eugene turned up it was revealed she\u2019d actually conned him into paying for her nose job!<\/p>

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