Carol Susan 'Chardonnay' Pascoe (née Lane) was a fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 on the ITV1

ITV1

ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...

 television series Footballers' Wives

Footballers' Wives

Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...

, loosely based on glamour model Jordan and played by Susie Amy

Susie Amy

Susie Amy is an English model and actress most famous for her role as Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe in the first two series of Footballers' Wives.-Biography:...

. She takes her name from the Chardonnay

Chardonnay

Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make white wine. It is originated from the Burgundy wine region of eastern France but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand...

 variety of wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 grape.

Life Before Series 1

Chardonnay was a rich and successful model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 with her entire career ahead of her, until she met her husband to be Kyle Pascoe

Kyle Pascoe

Kyle Patrick Pascoe is a fictional character in the ITV British drama Footballers' Wives, played by English actor Gary Lucy.-Series 1:Kyle is engaged to Chardonnay Lane, who gave him an early wedding present of a race horse. Chardonnay was set on fire at her hen party, and did not want to proceed...

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Series 1-2

We quickly see that although Chardonnay is not the smartest woman academically, she is a self-made person that will never stand in her soccer star husband's shadow. We see the marriage of Chardonnay and Kyle early in Series 1, however she immediately faced the problem of not meeting the standards of her husband's mother, Jackie Pascoe. However, Chardonnay disregards her mother-in-law and continues to live her life the way she sees fit. Although her modelling career is over after her chest was badly burned in an incident with two drunken fans on her hen night, she slowly, but surely bounced back.

By season two, she has become a TV presenter and a mother to her and her husband's adopted son, Paddy. However, the child is in fact the biological son of Kyle's mother, Jackie, and Kyle's Earls Park teammate, Jason Turner

Jason Turner (Footballers' Wives)

Jason Turner was a fictional character on ITV British drama Footballers' Wives, played by English actor Cristian Solimeno.-Character history:...

. He knew Jackie was pregnant but asked her to have a termination. Unable to do so, Jackie persuaded Kyle and Chardonnay to adopt the baby. Jason thought Chardonnay was the baby's mother but becomes suspicious when he realises her figure is the same as ever and also knowing that Jackie was pregnant, becomes suspicious about the baby's true parentage.

Chardonnay bonds with baby Paddy and is devastated when, encouraged by Jason, Jackie reclaims him. Jason is thrilled that he has a son until he and Jackie discover that baby Paddy is an inter-sex baby - meaning he has both male and female reproductive organs. Jason rejects Paddy and moves back in with Tanya, leaving Jackie to return to Kyle and Chardonnay.

Eventually, at the end of Series 2, Chardonnay murders Jason by hitting a wine bottle of his fingers, making him fall from the roof of a large building as he was hanging there helpless. Unable to comprehend what she has done, Chardonnay realises that she was drunk and didn't know what she was doing at the time of the murder and spirals into depression and anorexia.

Series 3

At the opening of the third series , we see a coffin with the name 'Chardonnay' on it, indicating that she lost her battle with anorexia after 6 months. Tanya speaks at her funeral, saying that Chardonnay was an angel and Kyle stands there grieving for his wife. Kyle later tells Jackie that Chardonnay killed Jason.