Vicky Pollard (portrayed by Matt Lucas) is a stereotypical ‘chav’ and a mother to 12 children and counting. She is a teenage mother and juvenile delinquent and is known for her inarticulate and incredibly fast speech and incessant gossip. She hails from the fictional location of Darkley Noone, but it is known she is from Bristol, often making references to suburbs of the city and surrounding areas (such as Bath and Weston-super-Mare).

Personality

Vicky is an obnoxious, sullen and bone idle teenage girl who talks incomprehensibly fast in a strong West Country accent. She is a representation of teenage delinquents and chavs.

When questioned about some aspect of her behaviour, or when accused of doing wrong (which, in her case, is often), Vicky will usually reply defensively with one of her several catchphrases, including:

• “No but yeah but no but yeah but no but…”,
• “Oh my god! I SO can’t believe you just said that!”
• “Shut up! I ain’t even done nuffin’ or nuffin’!”
• “Don’t go giving me evils!”

Vicky will defend herself by trailing off on a long rant in which she relates gossip about people who have nothing to do with the predicament she is in, although, when questioned, she claims to be “getting there”. Her incredibly fast speech and irrelevant gossip often annoys or confuses (or both) the person she is answering to.

Appearance

Vicky Pollard is often regarded as the ultimate television chav, although the character was created by Matt Lucas and David Walliams before the term came into common usage.

She is often seen wearing a pink Kappa tracksuit and leggings, with her hair scraped into a Croydon Facelift, as well as wearing excessive amounts of cheap jewellery and big hoop-earrings. Despite her hideous appearance, Vicky often refers to herself as being “well fit” (meaning attractive in British slang). It is also well known that Vicky is a heavy smoker – being caught smoking in a swimming pool and on a bus, and on one episode of Little Britain USA caught smoking in the showers by the coach at Boot Camp. Vicky also drinks heavily, but denied smoking and drinking whilst pregnant (“Apart from smoking two packs of fags a day and ten pints of Snakebites a night!”).

Vicky’s mother, Shelley (portrayed by Dawn French in one episode of Little Britain Abroad) is shown to be almost identical to her daughter in terms of dress.

Vicky Pollard = history

Vicky was born in 1989 in Bristol, or “Brizzle” as it is locally known. Most of her sketches are set in the fictional locality of Darkley Noone. In a series three episode she pronounced herself as “Well the Cotham J-Lo”. The Little Britain Live programme reveals that she left school at 11 with six ASBOs to her name. As of series three she has had at least 12 children, some of whom appear dressed identically to her. In series one she admitted to a social worker that she had exchanged one of her children for a Westlife CD, which she revealed that she regretted when the social worker expressed concern, saying “I know, they’re rubbish”.

She also has a mother – Shelley Pollard (appearing in an episode of Little Britain Abroad and portrayed by Dawn French) – who is almost identical to Vicky in terms of dress sense and personality. She has a sister, Katie Pollard (played by Kate Moss, appearing on Little Britain Live) and an estranged father named Ken who she re-met on an episode of ‘ ‘Trisha’ ‘.

The official series two tie-in script book featured a Jobseeker’s Allowance benefit claim form partially filled in by Vicky, listing her previous occupations as a “retale sistant” (Retail Assistant), chicken slaughterer (at which she lasted less than two hours due to her burning down the “dead chicken factory”) and erotic dancer at Spearmint Rhino, which lasted no longer than 24 seconds as she was regarded as “too much of a slag”.

However, in Series Three Vicky does find employment as a phone-sex worker, and discovers that she has been having an erotic conversation with her uncle on the phone line. In this series she also finds work as a babysitter, which she does not succeed at as she uses the house she is babysitting at for a large house party. The sketch ends with the parents arriving to find their home in a wreck.

Despite the fact that Vicky often seems to get into trouble at the end of her sketches, including appearances in court and arrests for shoplifting, she always seems to have avoided any serious penalties by her next appearance, although she did have a spell in borstal, and Boot Camp when she appeared on Little Britain USA .

In Series Three, Vicky also claimed that she couldn’t read or write because she was “like totally dexlixlec” (dyslexic).