Hollyoaks' famous matriarchs now - Soap row, famous ex and secret singing career

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Hollyoaks is celebrating International Womens Day with a special episode dedicated to its female characters.The episode will see dismissive terms used against women challenged, and reclaimed by the women of Hollyoaks, including scenes where Verity challenges Tony at the Dog in Pond pub.The Channel 4 soap has brought to our screens a lot of amazing characters throughout the decades, including The McQueen family, The Valentines and The Nightingales.To pay tribute to some of the iconic Hollyoaks residents, Daily Star takes a look inside the lives of the actresses who played some of the soap's most famous matriarchs.Diane Valentine was one of Hollyoaks' original family matriarchs, when she arrived in the fictional village with her children in 2006.While her time in the village was short, she certainly made an impact, after she forced residents Sophie and Mel to leave the house that they had just purchased - which once belonged to their mother Liz Burton.Viewers also watched her emotional relationship with her son Calvin Valentine, as well as their arguments about him leaving home once he graduated from the police force.However, more heartbreak was to come, when Diane was killed in a hit-and-run accident during the same year.Long before she played the Valentine family matriarch however, actress Pauline Black had a long singing career as part of group The Selecter.She has also appeared in TV series including Doctors, Two Thousand Acres of Sky and Grownups.If that wasn't enough, the star was made an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2021, for her services to entertainment, and helped to launch the City of Culture programme in her home town of Coventry.She paid tribute to the town in her acceptance speech, telling PA: "It’s.