Lauren Valentine Lauren Valentine Lauren Valentine is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera, "Hollyoaks", played by Dominique Jackson. First appearing in 2007, Lauren was written out of the show in 2010 along with the rest of the Valentine family as part of series producer Paul Marquess' overhaul of the series. Jackson's casting was announced on 13 August 2007. She was created as an extension to the Valentine family and was created as part of a storyline which saw Leo Valentine reveal he had lived a double life. On 8 March 2010 Jackson's axing was announced. Although it was
Soap opera of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, or focus on a large extended family. The storylines follow the day-to-day activities and personal relationships of these characters. "Soap narratives, like those of film melodramas, are marked by what Steve Neale has described as 'chance happenings, coincidences, missed meetings, sudden conversions, last-minute rescues and revelations, deus ex machina endings.'" These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, from "EastEnders" to "Dallas". Due to the prominence of English-language television, most soap-operas are completely English (or in the case of a foreign soap opera, dubbed