Viv Hope
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| Portrayed by | Deena Payne | ||||||||||
| Duration | 1993–97, 1998–2008, 2009– | ||||||||||
| First appearance | 10 August 1993 | ||||||||||
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| Occupation | Businesswoman | ||||||||||
| Residence | Cafe Hope Flat | ||||||||||
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Vivienne "Viv" Hope (previously Windsor and Dawson) is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Emmerdale. Portrayed by Deena Payne, the character first appeared on 10 August 1993.[1] In November 2007 it was confirmed that Deena Payne had asked for a break.[2] When Viv was sentenced to three years' imprisonment after she pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to defraud when conman Freddie Yorke stole the charity money and left her to take the blame. Viv returned eleven mouths later, after two recent appearances in October 2008. In June 2009 Deena Payne reprised her role and returned on screen in July. Viv is the longest running female character and Deena Payne is third longest appearing cast member in the series to the present day.[3]
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[edit] Creation and development
The character of Viv was first introduced in 1993 as part of the new Windsor family, Viv Windsor was introduced in, by series producer Nicholas Prosser who cast Payne in as the role. Before Payne Joined Emmerdale as postmistress Viv Windsor in Payne started out as a dancer. She trained with raunchy Hot Gossip's choreographer, Arlene Phillips, performed in stage musicals and sang with pop stars such as Alan Price and B. A. Robertson.
In 1992, Deena had her first child, William. He was still a baby when Payne was offered the role of Viv Windsor a year later. "'It was a big decision," recalls Deena, "because I had got my life quite well balanced. I didn't really think any further than getting work that would suit me as a mum." This part came along and it meant either traveling on a regular basis up and down from London to Yorkshire or moving up here. Denna took the job and, for the first six months, she found a small cottage, where she brought William up, and hired a nanny. Payne then realized that that wasn't working, .. so Denna and her husband Steve and both moved up to Leeds - Steve suggested that they rent a house in Yorkshire and still keep the house down south.[4]
[edit] Personality
Deena had no problems tackling the role of Viv , a wife and mother in a familythemselves moving from London to Yorkshire, Viv was the backbone of the Windsor family but later cheated on husband Vic by having an affair with Woolpack manager Terry Woods in 1996. [ ] 'I saw exactly who she was,' [ ] . ' Viv is An Essex girl with high heels and colourful clothes - but slightly clashing in the way the colors are actually co-ordinated. She opens her mouth first and thinks afterwards - her reactions are quicker than her head but she has a heart.
Viv's a very passionate woman and she gets angry when she has no emotional outlet. She loses any patience she might have and doesn't think before she speaks. She sees everything in black and white. If she thinks something's wrong, then it's wrong - end of story. No one can ever persuade her to see their point of view. 'There is a softer side to her, though, as she can be funny and enjoys a bit of banter with Emily, who now helps out in the post office. I don't actually think Viv's comic side has been sufficiently explored. When Vic was still alive, he and Viv had this great repartee ~ a bit like Jack and Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street. It's a shame that we weren't able to make more of it.[5]
[edit] Development
[edit] Relationship with Vic Windsor
When Viv Windor arrived in Emmerdale, she cursed her roguish husband, Vic, for bringing her north to run a post office instead of heading off to the picturesque Devon hamlet she'd imagined. Yet actress Deena Payne, who plays the vicious-tongued Denna, remembers her first scenes as if they were yesterday. .."'It was cold and pouring with rain. I was wearing these high heeled boots which were very difficult to walk in and I banged noses with Alun Lewis, who played Vic, as soon as we were introduced..",' she recalls. 'It wasn't the best start but, within half an hour of filming, I felt at home and as if Alun and I had been married for years!'
Viv tried to be faithful to Vic but had an affair with Vic's best friend Terry Woods. The fling didn't last and eventually Vic and Viv got back together but tragically, Vic’s life was cut short when criminal Billy Hopwood robbed the post office, armed with a gun and accidentally killed him.
[edit] Relationship with Bob Hope
In 2000, nearly three years after Vic was killed, Viv met Bob Hope and was immediately taken with him when he arrived selling Naughty Nylons. Viv loved his amusing banter and they had dinner together. Viv was smitten. When Bob came back to the village, Kelly made a point of flirting with him in the pub and suggests that he is interested in her. Viv walked in to find Bob expressing his disgust at Kelly’s proposition. Viv called Kelly an evil little minx and they end up fighting. Viv disowned Kelly and told her to leave.
Bob seemed to be avoiding Viv until he reappeared in the shop. He had to mediate between Viv and Carol as they continue to bicker. Bob suggests a Christmas party, Carol agreed, Viv takes more persuading. With the party in full swing, Viv announces that she’d like Bob to move in. Bob’s initial reaction is laughter but he later accepts her offer. Bob kept making excuses to Viv about when he is going to move in. Donna thought it this very suspicious. Bob tries to make friends with Donna when he took her shopping for a ski jacket.
In 2001, Bob announced yet another quick departure, annoying Viv once again, and when he returns, she kicks him out. Desperate to win her back, he scales a drainpipe. The plan succeeds but he’s soon booted out again after Viv discovers he has been discussing intimate secrets with Cain. A reconciliation looked unlikely until Bob had gotten drunk, left the pub and spontaneously asked Viv to become his fourth wife. Viv was overjoyed. The next morning Bob was surprised as she accepted, and admitted he only did it to please her. At the wedding, Bob was nervous but the ceremony went ahead. Bob continued to work away from home and Viv suggested they work together in the shop, Bob was horrified. Viv decided she wants to buy the B&B and Carol will buy the shop. Bob wasn’t overjoyed when the offer on the B&B was accepted but kept quiet. Bob fobbed Viv off by saying he has to train someone else up, which takes time. Bob lost his job at Naughty Nylons because Viv enters the Naughty Nylons lovely legs competition under her maiden name. She wins but his boss finds out and he is forced to resign or Viv must give up her title. He resigns and gets a job as Eric Pollard's factory manager.
As Viv struggled to keep her family together, Scott and Kelly were getting wilder by the day. When Kelly took an overdose after confessing to sleeping with her stepbrother, Viv was plagued with guilt and tried to mend fences. Kelly wasn’t to be tamed, however, and continued to flirt with every man in Emmerdale. Their relationship was rocky but they married in 2001 and continued to fall out and make up on an almost daily basis. Their relationship was tested to the limit when it was revealed that Viv slept with a limo driver on her friend Tricia Stokes’s hen night and, at his daughter Dawn’s wedding, Bob exposed Viv and left her. Somehow they managed to mend their relationship but when Scott started dating Dawn, things took another turn for the worse. After assaulting convicted rapist Frank Bernard Hartbourne, Scott persuaded Dawn to give him an alibi but she was uncomfortable about lying and soon retracted her statement.
[edit] Storylines
[edit] 1993-2008
Viv came to Beckindale to view a post office with her husband, Vic, and their children, Scott ,Donna and Kelly.
She found it it hard to adapt to country life and didn't realize how much her children were affected by the plane crash. She wanted to sue the Sugdens after Donna had an accident on a tractor and later saw Vic in court for assaulting looters. In June 1994, Reg, (her ex) and Scott's father, came to the village after being released from prison. He took Viv and Shirley Turner hostage during the post office siege but released Viv unharmed but she was a witness when Shirley was accidentally shot. When Reg died, he left her £30,000, on one condition; that she got a divorce from Vic.
In 1995, she got annoyed when Tina Dingle flirted with Vic and banned Kim Tate from the post office when she and her husband, Frank, threatened them with eviction. After being arrested for standing at the barricades, Viv regretted helping the Dingles and tried to make them leave the village. In 1996, after winning a dance competition with Terry Woods, Terry tried to persuade her to have an affair. Viv attempted to stay faithful to Vic at first when she was tempted. Viv only kissed Terry for comfort but had an affair with him until Vic conned her into thinking that she had won the lottery. She began to hate him, eventually moving out to live with Terry in the Woolpack, but soon returned to Vic.
In 1997, Viv tried to stop Kelly running away with Tom, a teacher she had an affair with. Viv blamed Terry when Donna collapsed after drinking alcopops and moved back into the post office. She also started a campaign against Andy Hopwood at school and tried to seducePaddy Kirk, but he rejected Viv's advances.
In 1998, when Kelly announced her pregnancy, Viv disapproved but tried to be supportive when Kelly miscarried. Viv eventually moved back home and was falsely accused of hitting Kelly but there were happier times ahead when Scott returned from the army. When Vic took her on a birthday treat, the pair were reconciled, but on Christmas Day, Vic was killed in the Post Office raid by Billy Hopwood, Viv ended the year desperately trying to hold her family together.
In 1999, Kelly got engaged to Roy Glover, and Viv offered to pay for the wedding. She also agreed to lend Scott Kelly’s legacy from Vic (£5000) to help with his business without Kelly’s knowledge. Unfortunately Roy and Kelly's offer on a cottage was accepted and needed Kelly's money for the deposit. Horrified, Viv asked Stella to lend it to her but when Kelly found out, she punched Viv. In 2000, Viv started the new year with a decision to sell the shop. Kelly attempted suicide. Kelly and Scott were thrown out of the house after sleeping together and went to Spain. Viv's wandering eye focused on Carlos Diaz, the new diner chef. A hosiery salesman called Bob changes Viv's life almost immediately, seducing her with his oily charm, and moving in with her. Her friend, Carol, reappeared, and announces she will be staying. Viv wanted more commitment from Bob.
In 2001, the relationship between Viv and Bob was rocky but in February, they got married. Carol and Viv struck a deal that Viv would sell her the Post Office, planning to buy the B&B but Carol went behind Viv’s back and gazumped her for the B&B. Livid, Viv throws Carol out of the house and she responds by hiding a bag of frozen prawns in a curtain rail. Bob's excuses have made Viv suspicious, she entraps him into admitting the existence of another wife. Viv forgive him, and decided to try and raise some cash for a honeymoon by entering the Naughty Nylons competition organised by Bob's firm. Viv won and Bob was sacked.
The move infuriated Viv so much that she threw Bob out and, even though Dawn and Scott were reunited, the couple began divorce proceedings. Alone and unhappy, Viv started a flirtation with her employee and best friend Emily Kirk’s husband Paddy. A misunderstanding led Paddy to confess to sleeping with Viv, resulting in Emily trashing her rival’s shop, quitting her job and announcing their deception to the whole Woolpack. Viv was at her lowest point and things only worsened when Scott was injured, following a violent showdown at Home Farm with Zoe Tate, mother of his daughter, Jean. The accident brought Kelly back and although there was still some tension between them, Viv seemed to enjoy having her around.
Viv's luck was about to change, though. She and Bob finally made up after working together in a cooking competition and Viv excitedly began planning their wedding. The event was intended to be a double wedding with Donna and her fiancée Marlon Dingle.
One thing Bob wanted more than anything was to be back in touch with all his children. Viv set about contacting them and discovered that he had had children with every single one of his wives, except her.
On their wedding day, Viv was horrified when Bob failed to arrive. It transpired that Bob had actually spent the night in a hotel after a vasectomy reversal and was taken hostage by his ex-wife Jean who begged him to leave Viv and get back together with her. When Bob finally arrived they had a big row, but walked down the aisle and tied the knot for a second time.
[edit] Longing for children
Although they had spent months trying, Viv didn't seem able to get pregnant. After a test, Viv was sure she was pregnant but it was a false alarm. The Hopes were told Viv may be too old to have another child. Thrown into despair, Viv came up with a radical solution - asking Donna to be surrogate, in exchange for a deposit on their dream house.
After Dawn's death in the showhouse explosion, the family were devastated. On the day of Dawn's funeral, Viv discovered she was pregnant and expecting twins, which she gave birth to on 9 February 2007. Viv started parenting classes in Cafe Hope, telling parents how to raise their children and what routines they should follow. This led to a few angry residents including Lisa Dingle, saying that Viv was being a busybody.
[edit] Charity fraud
Viv began raising money for children's charities, a drive which gained a much higher profile when Ashley Thomas and Laurel Thomas lost their son Daniel to cot death. Unfortunately for Viv, the man she entrusted with the charity money, Freddy Yorke, took it and vanished. Viv and Bob went to the police but Viv only implicated herself when she admitted moving funds around. Viv and Bob tried to keep the investigation a secret, but she was arrested at a party thrown for her at the Woolpack in honour of her charity efforts. Viv and Bob were charged with conspiracy to defraud. Every time Viv tried to clear her name, she made matters worse. With the help of an investigator, she even found Freddie, but he threatened her children's lives and got away, putting stolen money in her bag as a goodbye present.
On 20th August 2008, after Donna nearly died in a car-crash, Viv pleaded guilty in court and was later sentenced to serve 3 years in prison. Her voice was last heard on a recording she made of a bedtime story for Bob, Heath and Cathy
Viv appeared briefly on October 10, when Bob pretended to be a postman so he could see her. He did so when she was doing prison work, when Bob told Viv he loves her. She was seen again on October 16, when Bob pretended to be a drama teacher under the name of Terry Woods, in order to see Viv. He and Viv did a piece of drama together where Bob explained to Viv about a man whose wife refused to see him while she was in prison. This made Viv cry as she told Bob that the reason she didn't want to see him was so he would remember her how she wanted him to and that her kids can't see her like this. The piece ended with Viv crying and revealing to everyone who "Terry" really was.
[edit] 2009-
In July 2009, Viv sent Bob a letter asking him to visit. As Viv had refused to see Bob while she was in prison, he assumed she wanted to end their marriage, and chose not to see her. Instead, he had comfort sex with Genesis Walker. The next day, Viv, who was granted early release, returned to the village. She needed money to pay for her cab and returned to the cafe/post office, only for Brenda Walker to mistake her for a thief and restrain her until Paddy Kirk cleared up the confusion.
Viv was upset at the changes in the past year, particularly the twins not recognizing her. Viv soon revealed that she hadn't been in touch with Bob and the children because she was appealing against the length of her sentence. Bob was furious, but when his anger reduced Viv to tears, he apologized. The next day, Val Pollard informed Viv that Brenda now owned half of the business. She went to Essex for a week to visit her daughter Donna Windsor-Dingle to see how she was getting on after leaving her husband, Marlon, and the village for a new job. Seeing that Donna was happy and even had a new man, she returned to the village where she clashed repeatedly with Brenda. They eventually called a truce after Viv heard Brenda talking about her money worries and Viv told Terry. Brenda and Viv now make an effort to get on so that the shop and the cafe run smoothly.
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[edit] References
- ^ Emmerdale Org (4 November 2004). "Emmerdale's Viv Hope.". Emmerdale Org. http://www.emmerdale.org/emmerdale/profiles_current/viv.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Kris Green (November 7 2007). "'Emmerdale' actress to take year's break". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a79346/emmerdale-actress-to-take-years-break.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ Kris Green (June 16 2009). "Pictures: Deena Payne returns to 'Emmerdale'=Digital Spy". http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a160217/pictures-deena-payne-returns-to-emmerdale.html. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ Emmerdale Org (September 29 2003). "Emmerdales Viv Windsor=Emmerdale Org". http://www.emmerdale.org/emmerdale/profiles/viv1.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ Emmerdale Org (September 29 2003). "Emmerdales Viv Windsor=Emmerdale Org". http://www.emmerdale.org/emmerdale/profiles/viv1.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
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