Calvin Valentine poll on the forums at the moment, Calvin may look nice with his shirt off, but his misogynistic, patronising, whiney attitude is doing him no favours at all. It’s even making people sympathise a bit with Carmel, and we all know she’s a no good dirty boob-thief." Deller later criticised him again, writing: "Calvin Valentine, Hollyoaks, Last month’s winner (or loser, I suppose) continues to annoy, behave implausibly and maintain his self-righteous prickness, and was only usurped for a very good reason…" In her book "Soap Stars", Debbie Foy features Whittle in one of her profile features and describes Calvin
Valentine Pelka opera "Family Affairs" as Simon Thornton. His sister, Kazia, was also a leading player in "Family Affairs"; however, that was after Valentine had appeared in the soap opera. Of the feature films in which Valentine has performed, the best-known was Roman Polanski's 2002 film "The Pianist". His supporting comedic role in "Under the Tuscan Sun" was performed mute. He returned to stage work in 2013 when he reprised his role as John Lennon in Sandy Marshall's biopic "And in the End" at the Jeremy Street Theatre in London. Also in 1999, he had a guest starring role in "" as