Richard Valmont

Richard Valmont was a councillor who met with Tony Hutchinson - the councillor for the Dee Valley area - in October 2022 to discuss the events surrounding the carnival. The carnival had been hijacked by serial killer Silas Blissett, with his bombs causing an escape room, the Jubilee Gardens fountain and The Cunningham Grande Bazaar to explode. However, Valmont left Tony surprised when he displayed a positive attitude. After Tony's estranged son (whom he did not know of) Beau Ramsey turned up to The Dog in the Pond, Tony revealed their connection to Valmont and his wife Diane Hutchinson, leaving the pair stunned.
A few days later, Valmont arrived at the house on Nicholas Street which Sienna Blake and Leela Lomax had been contracted to clean. Posing as "Mr. Jones", Valmont met with Sienna who was posing as homeowner "Mrs. Robinson". The pair had a date and ended up sleeping together. The next day, Valmont visited Tony in an attempt to salvage his career following his bombshell and met Ste Hay. Sienna found the pair together on a date and she and Ste realised that they had been sleeping with the same man. Sienna angrily turned down Valmont's suggestion of a threesome, but Ste took him back to his flat.
After sleeping with Ste, Valmont began to feel unwell and collapsed as Ste was getting him a glass of water. Whilst attempting to revive him, Ste discovered that Valmont was working for gangster Norma Crow. Fearing that Norma would think that he killed Valmont, Ste enlisted Sienna's help into hiding Valmont's body in the Deadly Sheen cleaning van. However, Valmont went missing and Ste and Sienna learned that Valmont's wife had switched his Viagra with sleeping pills. Finding him in the forest, the trio agreed to never discuss what happened as Valmont needed Norma to believe that he was reliable.
== List of appearances ==
=== 2022 ===
*25th October 2022
*27th October 2022
*28th October 2022
*31st October 2022
*2nd November 2022
Category:Hollyoaks characters
Category:2022 minor characters
Category:Councillors
Category:LGBT characters