Sasha Valentine
Sasha Valentine | |
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Hollyoaks character | |
Kathleen-Angel McQueen |
Sasha Valentine is a fictional character from the
Character development
Characterisation
Storylines
Sasha arrives in the village with her mother,
Sasha achieves straight A's in her GCSE exams, and around this time develops a crush on
Fletch takes up drugs and offers Josh and Sasha them, but they refuse. Later that night, Valerie takes Sasha out clubbing. This results in Valerie and Katy Fox (Hannah Tointon) having a fight and Sasha and Valerie being thrown out. They are then arrested by Calvin and spend night in the cells. After overhearing an argument between Valerie and Leo in which he calls her boring she leaves to find Fletch who gives her some cannabis, which she smokes. During Niall Rafferty's (Barry Sloane) party, Sasha and Fletch took some Speed. Sasha hallucinates and sees her father angry at her for taking speed. Sasha complains that her heart is beating extremely fast and won't stop, she also complains her jaw and stomach was hurting. Sasha was then sick before Lauren found her. On 11 February, Sasha and Calvin have an argument after he catches her smoking weed with Fletch, and Sasha started mocking him and Carmel McQueen (Gemma Merna). Calvin pushes Sasha causing her to bang her head on the wooden staircase. Sasha moves out of the Valentine's and into Amy and Ste's. Sasha and Fletch decided to take heroin. But the morning after they take the heroin Sasha and Fletch suffer a massive comedown in Amy and Ste's bathroom. Ste finds out and chucks Sasha and Fletch out the flat for taking the heroin. After this Sasha moves back in with the rest of the Valentine's. Sasha is caught in bed with Fletch by her father so -later buys heroin from a drug dealer named Nige. Sasha and Fletch suffer a painful comedown in Sasha's bedroom . She is sick and suffers from nausea and paranoia.
On 23 April 2008, Sasha was dumped by Fletch and then went round to Ste's an asked him for heroin. She asks Ste to inject the heroin into her wrists, but Sasha soon collapses. Ste panics and drags her into the village and leaves her in an alleyway. Calvin finds Sasha and she is rushed to hospital. The following day Sasha wakes up in hospital and is confronted by Calvin. To fund their heroin habit Sasha and Fletch begin stealing from locals including friends and family. Fletch tried to rob Drive 'n' Buy but was caught by Josh, whilst Sasha stole possessions from her brother Danny to fund her heroin habit. Sasha and Fletch steal a laptop from school using Leo's keys. However they are caught by Lauren and are forced to give the laptop back. On 4 June 2008 Sasha became desperate for more heroin and resorted to having sex with Nige for drugs. Nige promises that he will give Sasha more drugs if Sasha has sex with him. Afterwards Sasha asks for her drugs but Nige leaves Sasha with nothing. Nige tells Fletch about him and Sasha, Fletch dumps Sasha and refuses to give her heroin. Sasha finds Fletch slumped in an alleyway barely conscious after he had just finished a fix, Sasha still desperate for more heroin searched through Fletch's bag and pockets looking for heroin she could steal, but finds nothing. Fletch asks Sasha to run away to London with him, however, Sasha turns down the offer. However, Sasha has finally overcome her drug use, with the help of her family. On the day Sasha got her exam results back, Fletch returns, convincing Sasha he is clean. In the park, he is talking to her when she discovers marks on his hands, discovering he has been injecting himself with heroin. Fletch then mugs her. In
Sasha begins a friendship with Warren Fox's mentally disabled foster brother, Spencer Gray, but is using Spencer as a means to get closer to Warren. They begin a relationship which is short-lived when a hate campaign against Warren was started by Clare Devine and Warren was killed in a fire at The Loft. In Hollyoaks: The Morning After the Night Before, Sasha decides to go to Manchester where Josh and Dave Colburn were. She is followed by a strange man but Josh stop him harming her. She and Josh later sleep together.On a night out with Dave and his friends Sasha is arrested for attempting to drive a car while on drugs and without a licence. Sasha is attacked in an alleyway by a mystery person after a night out. After telling Michaela about it Michaela advised her to tell the police, if not for her sake for other girls' sakes however Sasha decided against it. She is involved in a car crash but is mainly unscathed. When Sasha spots an article in the paper about another girl being attacked she opens up to Calvin who supports her and encourages her to tell the police which she does, the incident seems to strengthen her bond with her brother. Her new-found trust in Calvin doesn't last long however as Mercedes tells her, he left Warren to die. Sasha is horrified and when she confronts Calvin, he claims he did it for her. Sasha makes it clear to everyone that Calvin is dead to her. She then gives the Valentines an ultimatum to either choose between her and Calvin. The family decides to stick by Sasha and forces Calvin to move out. Sash leaves to live in London with Lauren and her step mother.
Reception
The Metro described Sasha's time on the show as "Teenager Sasha has been through so much - family troubles, heroin addiction and a dangerously addictive relationship with bad boy Warren Fox".[5] On the character MSN said "You name it, Sasha's been there".[9]
References
- ^ "'Hollyoaks' producer axes 11 more". Digital Spy. (Hachette Filipacchi UK). 8 March 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
- Hachette Filipacchi. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- E4. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- Hachette Filipacchi. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Associated Newspapers. 12 July 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ "Sasha Valentine Character profile BBC America". BBC America. BBC Worldwide. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ "Stoned Sam hooks Sash". Daily Star. Northern & Shell. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ "Sasha's end game". Daily Star. Northern & Shell. 5 May 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ "Corrie's on screen goodbye to Blanche". MSN.com. MSN. 3 May 2010. Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
External links
- Sasha Valentine on the E4 website
- Character profiles on the BBC America website