Lauren Valentine is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Dominique Jackson.

"[4] Jackson described the character as "a stroppy, misunderstood teenager" who she never wanted to "blossom her into a Hollyoaks babe".

Valerie leaves them at the Valentine residence and demands that Leo look after them while she sorts out her housing problems.

Lauren wants nothing to do with her, but Valerie persuades Danny and Leo to give her another chance and let her stay in the Valentine house until she could get back on her feet.

Tom is reported missing when he goes to return Newt's sketchbook and stays longer than planned.

Lauren overhears Elliot talking about his father, and along with a reluctant Newt, contactes him through an Internet message board and convinces him to meet them in the woods.

Newt discovers Wade's bag of women's clothes and panics, worrying about Lauren.

The pair started to spend more and more time with Spencer Gray, a man with severe learning difficulties who had inherited a lot of money from Warren Fox.

They used him to get him to buy alcohol for them and even swiped his credit card; they then hatched a plan to steal all of Spencer's money and run away together.

She lies to him that she is pregnant with his child and that he has to give her £2000 to have an abortion to con him out of his inheritance so that she and Gaz can run away together.

Gaz is arrested for Calvin's murder and when he is later released he asks Lauren to run away with him again however she can't when she sees her dad needs her.

Lauren and Gaz's relationship later deteriorates, she then starts to reconcile with Anita and accepts to go to Paris with her to visit her sister Leila Roy.

Lauren then decides to choose Anita and they make a proper reconciliation and sh breaks up with Gaz.

She is then told by Anita that he held a gun, in which Lauren didn't believe and angrily thought she was lying.

She later finds out that Valerie isn't going to Spain after all, but is then shocked to hear the rest of the family are joining them and that Spencer is going with them too.

Grace Dent of The Guardian joked about one of Lauren's light hearted storylines which featured after tragic storylines stating: "cruel, skint January has been brightened with a lawnmower race featuring Gaz and Lauren astride killer-bladed mowers, larking about like people who'd clearly forgotten they were stalked habitually by bad luck and tragedy.