Danny Valentine Danny Valentine Danny Valentine is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera, "Hollyoaks", played by David Judge. He first appeared in 2007 and made his final appearance in 2008. Danny Valentine is the illegitimate child of Leo Valentine who first arrived in the village in September 2007, when his mother Valerie Holden drops him and his sister Lauren, off at the Valentine residence and demanded that Leo looks after them while she takes up a free holiday in Greece. Danny and Lauren were totally unknown to Calvin and Sasha, and it was not until his sister Lauren
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