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
Soap opera the past. Modern U.S. daytime soap operas largely stay true to the original soap opera format. The duration and format of storylines and the visual grammar employed by U.S. daytime serials set them apart from soap operas in other countries and from evening soap operas. Stylistically, UK and Australian soap operas, which are usually produced for early evening timeslots, fall somewhere in between U.S. daytime and evening soap operas. Similar to U.S. daytime soap operas, UK and Australian serials are shot on videotape, and the cast and storylines are rotated across the week's episodes so that each cast member will