Victoria Sugden
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| Victoria Sugden | |
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| Played by | Jessica Haywood/Hannah Midgley/Isobel Hodgins |
| Duration | 1994- |
| Date of Birth | 31st March 1994 |
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| Marital Status | Single |
| Occupation | Student |
| Family | Jack, Andy, Robert, Sarah Snr., and Sarah Jnr. |
Age 12
Victoria Anne Sugden is a character in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She was originally played by Jessica Haywood from 1994 to 1998, then she was played by Hannah Midgley from 1998 to July 2006 and as of October Isabel Hodgins is in the role.
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[edit] About Victoria
Victoria is the youngest of the Sugden children and the only daughter of Jack Sugden. She was born three months after the Emmerdale plane crash to Jack and Sarah Sugden. Victoria also has a half brother Robert , Jack's son who was born in 1986.
A short time after she was born she was diagnosed with a hole in her heart. Her parents feared she would die but thankfully she pulled through. A couple of weeks later Jack and Sarah married but it wasn't long before she left Jack for a member of staff who had been treating Victoria when she was in hospital. They eventually got back together but their happiness was not to last.
One day in 1996 , Robert brought home his new friend Andy Hopwood. He was in a children's home and the Sugdens decided to foster him but they later adopted him. It seemed like the family was back on track but Sarah and Victoria were nearly killied when a bus crashed in the village.
In 1999 Jack allowed his friend Richie to move into his home. It was not long before Sarah began an affair with Richie, who was much younger than she was. In 2000 Jack found out about the affair and threw Sarah and Richie out and forbade Sarah from being in contact with Robert, Andy and Victoria.
As a custody battle broke out, Jack decided that the best place for the children would be with his mother Annie in Spain for a few weeks. When they returned Victoria moved in with Sarah and the boys stayed with Jack.
In 2000, the Sugdens were beginning to run out of money and Any Over heard Jack say that they could do with some insurance money and he hoped something would go on fire. He decided to set fire to a barn and on the 16 November 2000 Andy set fire to his barn at night. Tragically Sarah was inside with Richie and whilst he only escaped with minor burns, Sarah died.
The police came calling and believed that Jack had started the fire deliberately in order to get Victoria back. Despite his innocence, Jack was arrested for murder and put in prison. Thankfully, Jack was found not guilty at his trial.
At home Jack struggled to bring up his children but Victoria has grown up to be a well adjusted happy child.
In 2002 Victoria started acting strangely with an imaginary friend called Walter Todd taking up much of the little girl's time. She often refused to go out unless he could come to. Jack started to worrry about Victoria but she grew out of it eventually.
In 2003 Victoria collapsed with a ruptured appendix and was rushed to hospital but was thankfully okay.
Victoria was bridesmaid for Katie when she married Andy in 2004. A short time later she was horrified to find Robert in bed with Katie. Her brother's threats that her would kill her if she told anyone what she had seen scared her so much that she refused to talk at all. Diane said that one of the kids in her class had probably dared her to do it and they would give her their roller blades in return. But as the days went on Jack and Diane became increasingly worried about her and referred her to a docter who said that it was probably just a phase she was going through. She was given a puppet Alfie but the puppet annoyed Jack and he through it against a wall in front of Diane, Katie], Andy, Daz, Robert and Robert's girlfriend, Donna. Victoria told Diane what she had seen and Jack found out and punished Robert.
Andy left Katie when he found out and Donna dumped Robert. Robert and Katie moved into a caravan together and one morning Andy hid in the caravan hoping to shoot Robert. Tragically , Jack was shot when he delivered a water tank to the caravan and Andy, without looking fired the trigger. As Jack recovered in hospital, the brothers rowed over who was to blame for the accident. When Jack woke up he was furious as it could have been Victoria who was shot (she was with Dawn Woods).
In 2005 Victoria became an aunt when Andy got Debbie Dingle pregnant and on 6 June Sarah was born.
Victoria was devastated by the departure of her brother Robert. After losing Katie following his affair with wealthy Sadie King, Robert concocts an evil plan to get back at Andy. He seduced Debbie Dingle, the mother of Andy's daughter Sarah and persuaded her to run away with him, taking his brother's daughter.
Things took a turn when Debbie arrived alone, Robert dumped her and had a violent showdown with Andy. The two men raced towards each other in cars, and crashed, killing Andy's passenger Max King. Jack orders Robert to leave Emmerdale forever, and Victoria was absolutely bereft.
After a few months, the little lady strikes up a friendship with school pal Kayleigh Crow. They work together to get Kayleigh's dad Martin together with Diane's best friend Louise Appleton and spend all their time together.
But as they grow up, Kayleigh and Victoria are proving to be quite a handful. They gatecrashed Jamie Hope's rave and then started a campaign of terror against poor pensioner Edna Birch.
Kayleigh and Victoria caused trouble for Chastity Dingle's 12 year old son Aaron when the told him about Chas's cousin Delilah Dingle's affair with Chas's partner Carl King. Aaron told his mum and left Emmerdale.
In June 2006 Kayleigh and her best friend Victoria Sugden started playing knock and run at their neighbour, Edna Birch's house. When they ran away Victoria's phone fell out of her pocket and Edna found it. She refused to give it back until both girls apologised. Kayleigh refused. In an attempt to get Victoria's phone back they broke into Edna's house when she was out walking her dog. The girls got caught and Kayleigh ran away. Edna caught Victoria and when Victoria mimicked her, she slapped her across the face.
Victoria went to Spain in 2006 to visit her gran, Annie.
Even when Victoria was in Spain she was still causing trouble. The 12 year old was due back at the end of August but lost her passport and her stay was delayed until 12 October when she came home. On this day, Jack had gone to the airport to collect Victoria. But the cheeky youngster wasn't there (this was maybe because Jack had been half an hour late to pick her up). When he returned without her Diane thought that it had to be a wind up but when she saw how worried Jack was she believed him. Jack phoned his mother and she said that she had seen Victoria go through the departure gate at the airport. As Jack went back to the airport to search again Diane went home just in case she turned up. When she arrived she found Victoria talking to Daz as if she had done nothing wrong!
She soon started giving Jack and Diane more to worry about when she told them of her holiday romance with a 14 year old boy named Enrique. Jack was appalled and the next day phoned Annie to check that Victoria had not just made the whole thing up. Annie said she didn't have a clue what Jack was talking about. Victoria later confessed that she had made the whole thing up.
Later on , while at Andy and Katie's , she confessed to Katie that she was telling the truth and Enrique was real but he was 16 years old and not 14.She also told Katie that she had got a tattoo and showed her it. Although Victoria told her not to tell anyone the tattoo and Enrique, Katie told Andy what Victoria had told her but it remains to be seen whether or not the tattoo was real and if Andy will tell Jack about Victoria.
Victoria ran off to a deserted farm and saw a ghostly figure in the window and ran off (leaving Daz's bike). She told Daz and they went back to get the bike and saw smoke coming from the chimney. Daz said that it was probably just a tramp (little did they know that it was Emily Kirk who was hiding there after giving Sarah back to Andy).
Victoria and Kayleigh caused pregnant Viv Hope to collapse. A week before the Cafe where Viv worked had been robbed and the man who did it was carrying a gun. When Victoria, Kayleigh and a few of their other friends threw eggs at the window and Viv collapsed. Viv was taken to hospital and Viv's husband Bob Hope yelled at Victoria over what had happened when she tried to appologise. Viv was thankfully okay.
Kayleigh, Victoria and their friend Jenny went to a nightclub after a woman had given Victoria tickets to go there. They got all dressed up and told Victoria's dad Jack that they were going out. Although they didn't stay long as they spotted Victoria's brother Andy and a lot of other Emmerdale resedants at the club. As they were leaving, Andy's lodger, Jo Stiles, saw them and told them about the dodgy people in the club but promised not to tell Jack that they had been there.
Victoria witnessed Andy's lodger Jo Stiles whip Katies horse so that she fell of. Jo told her not to tell anyone.
She got into a fight with Luke Dingle after she made a coment abot his mum being in prison.
[edit] Trivia
- Victoria has brown hair and brown eyes.
- Victoria does not get on very well with Belle Dingle. The pair have been seen arguing many times and their most recent one was over Victoria's niece, Sarah, who is also Belle's niece and Debbie's Daughter.
- She has been played by three actresses over the years; Jessica Haywood (1994-1998), Hannah Midgley (1998-2006) and Isabel Hodgins (October 2006 onwards).
- Victoria is best friends with Kayleigh Crow.
[edit] Quotes
- (About Jack's ice skating)'It was like watching an elephant belly dance!'
- (About the creepy house) 'You would have to be pretty weird to live out here on your own.'
[edit] Family
*father jack sugden
Mother: Sarah Sugden
*Half-brothers: Robert Sugden, Jackie Merrick (deceased) *Adoptive brother: Andy Sugden *Adoptive niece: Sarah Dingle *Grandfather: Jacob Sugden (deceased) *Grandmother: Annie Brearly *Aunt: Peggy Skilbeck (deceased) *Uncle: Joe Sugden (deceased) *Cousins: Sally Skilbeck (deceased), Sam Skilbeck (deceased)
