Betty Eagleton
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| Emmerdale character | |
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| Betty Eagleton | |
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| Played by | Paula Tilbrook |
| Duration | 1994-2003, 2004- |
| Date of birth | 22nd January 1934 |
| Date of death | |
| Marital status | Widowed |
| Occupation | Cleaner |
| Family | None |
Elizabeth "Betty" Eagleton (née Pendagast) is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. She is played by Paula Tilbrook.
[edit] About Betty
If you ever need to know the gossip in Emmerdale, Betty Eagleton’s your woman.
The scandal-loving pensioner is the authority of every misdeed committed by her friends and neighbours and is never happier than when she’s spinning a yarn.
But she’s not all bad, Betty is a very kind woman who’s spent years opening her home and her heart to some of Emmerdale’s needy residents.
But her devotion is reserved for one man alone - Seth Armstrong. Childhood sweethearts, Betty and Seth went their separate ways as youngsters when his pal Wally proposed before he had the chance to. When Betty turned up in Emmerdale 40 years later, Seth found that his feelings for her hadn’t changed and he was soon proposing. Although they’ve never married, no one could deny that Seth and Betty are soulmates.
But, for a woman who likes scandal, Betty has a fair amount from her own past.
In 2000 one of her old flames, Reggie arrived in the village. It transpired that Betty had dated Reggie while working in the Windmill Theatre in London.
On the day she went to tell him she was pregnant with his baby, Betty discovered him in a bed with another woman - and had an abortion. The operation left her incapable of having children and she kept the tragedy to herself.
Knowing this, Reggie tried to blackmail Betty by threatening to tell Seth. Instead, Betty told him herself and Seth drove Reggie out of the village.
In 2004, Betty decided to visit her friend Kathy in Australia and went on a long holiday. Seth joined her, but when she got homesick and returned several months later to Emmerdale in 2004, he refused to leave.
It looked like the couple may split up until Betty accepted Seth’s decision to stay a while long Down Under.
On Christmas Eve, Betty got the best present ever when Seth sung Silent Night to her over an Internet connection.
But tragedy was to strike. On his way to visit her, Seth dies on the plane and as Betty waits to meet him in the airport, it’s their friend Kathy Glover who is forced to break the news to her.
Betty was devastated, but gots lots of support from Kathy, Biff Fowler and Laurel Potts. During Seth's funeral, Betty took Seth's real coffin and buried it in the countryside, with help from Laurel and Zak and Sam Dingle. However, the fake coffin, containing a sack of sand, was buried by the rest of the villagers in the Emmerdale cemetery.
Fortunately her friends rally round and after a few months Betty is back to her old self. She now enjoys having good friend Alan Turner living at her house and life seems to be on the up again.
But Alan’s family problems are about to take over Betty’s world. When he laments losing contact with his son Terence, Betty contacts the missing relative and inadvertently sparks off a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
A violent, cruel alcoholic, Terence’s return has a terrifying impact on his sister Steph Stokes. The truth is revealed that Terence abused Steph as a child and Betty is one of the few people who believes her story.
Unable to accept Terence sexually abused Steph, Alan lashes out at Betty and moves from her house into Holdgate Farm. But it’s not long before Terence reveals his true colours and Alan comes back to Betty begging her forgiveness.
She may love a drama, but all Betty wants for herself is a quiet life.
However, with Alan’s mad family engulfed in a fresh trauma now Steph is sectioned and Terence is missing, it looks like she’ll be waiting a long time for any tranquility in the house!
[edit] Family
- Husband: Wally Eagleton (deceased)
