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Doctors
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'', portrayed by
Sarah Moyle
Sarah Moyle (born 14 September 1969) is an English actress, known for her roles as Linda Fawcett in various stage productions of ''Jerusalem'' and Valerie Pitman in the BBC soap opera '' Doctors''. Moyle also portrayed the recurring role of Caro ...
. Valerie was introduced as a temporary receptionist at the fictional Mill Health Centre on 15 October 2012. Valerie is depicted as a kind, nosy and humorous character who enjoys getting involved in other people's lives. Her backstory involves growing up as an only child with no friends who dresses differently to other people, so since she feels like an outsider, she is desperate to be part of a unit of loved ones. Moyle was originally contracted on the soap as a recurring character, but after a positive reaction from viewers, she was promoted to a regular cast member. One of the storylines that accredited to her popularity was an issue-led storyline that saw Valerie diagnosed with
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. Moyle felt honoured to be given the storyline and found it interesting to play the storyline from a comedic perspective.
Valerie has had numerous love interests in her time on the soap, but after she concludes that she is the most important person in her life, she marries herself in a
sologamy storyline. One of her love interests "comes back to haunt her" when Grant Hill (
Jack Ryder) is murdered and she is accused of his murder, which results in her having to take a break from working at the surgery.
Valerie was the feature of another issue-led storyline in 2022 after she is the victim of a home invasion and attack. Moyle felt out of her comfort zone filming the scenes since she had become accustomed to filming comedy scenes as Valerie, but again felt privileged to be given a serious storyline.
In 2022, Moyle announced her decision to exit from the series. She had originally told producers that she was leaving in 2020, but due to the
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, she asked producers if she could reverse her decision. Her final appearance aired in December 2022 after Valerie is sacked from the Mill after forging a prescription in
Al Haskey
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) name. For her portrayal of Valerie, Moyle was nominated for numerous awards at the
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and went on to win the Best Comedy Performance at the 2019 ceremony. She was also nominated for Best Acting Performance at the
RTS Midlands Awards
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, as well as receiving a nomination in the Serial Drama Performance category at the
26th National Television Awards.
Casting and characterisation
Valerie was introduced to ''Doctors'' on 15 October 2012.
Sarah Moyle
Sarah Moyle (born 14 September 1969) is an English actress, known for her roles as Linda Fawcett in various stage productions of ''Jerusalem'' and Valerie Pitman in the BBC soap opera '' Doctors''. Moyle also portrayed the recurring role of Caro ...
's credits stated that her role on the series would be recurring, and after leaving the role in December 2012, she made brief returns in 2013 and 2014. She was later promoted to a regular cast member in 2016.
Her on-screen return is written in by Karen being unable to work and the Mill requiring a permanent receptionist. Moyle was glad to rejoin the cast as a series regular and described her return as "coming back into a family". On her character, Moyle said: "She is a complex lady who is extremely self-centred, quite vain, quite annoying to the other characters
nda bit eccentric".
She remarked that Valerie's dress sense is also eccentric and noted her kind heart and funniness.
Moyle revealed that during the filming process, she is allowed to tweak the scripts to add
one-liners into scenes. She appreciated the writers for their scripts, but felt that the cast know their own characters better than anyone else, so thought it useful to be able to amend lines.
In her backstory, spent years as an office coordinator, was popular with her colleagues, was eager to hear others' troubles and always made time for them.
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profile noted that "her desperation is too palpable", which is shown in scenes when she "invades people's personal space" and "lives vicariously through others".