Trollied

Plot summary

Cast and characters

• Gavin Strong — Gavin is Valco's store manager and a long-term employee of the company. He is mild-mannered and dedicated to his work. He is a widower and it has taken sometime for him to find love again. He was clueless to the fact that his deputy manager, Julie Cook, was attracted to him and he later became romantically involved with members of staff including Anna and Cheryl. He briefly left Valco's store in Warrington to take up the position of area manager of the entire Valco chain, but later returned.
• Katie McVey — Katie was originally a checkout operator at Valco, and later went on working as a kiosk assistant, and then a checkout supervisor. She became romantically involved with Kieran, the butcher, and both left Valco to start a new life together. However, it is revealed that she and Kieran broke up and Katie soon returned upon receiving the position of HR manager and later working her way up to her current position as deputy store manager. She found love for a second time at Valco with Daniel Wilson but it wasn't meant to be.
• Colin — Colin was initially store assistant. He attempts to get away with doing as little work as possible and all he is interesting in is smoking, drinking and getting tattoos and he has a filthy mind. It appeared that he loathed his co-worker, Lisa; however, it seems they are the perfect match as they are alike in many ways and later start their own family.
• Lisa — Lisa is a checkout operator at Valco. She hates just about everyone, is crude and is not at all interested in her job. It initially appears that she loathes Colin the most, but it soon becomes evident that they make the perfect couple and often sneak off to have sex and aren't the least bit shy in sharing the sordid details with their co-workers. She and Colin have now started their own family.
• Margaret — Margaret received the position at Valco as part of a senior citizens work scheme. She was a housewife for many years and now that her children have all grown up and left home, she has decided to get out more and beginning at Valco was the first step. At first she is a deli counter assistant and works her way up to her current position as pharmacy assistant. She is easily confused and very forgetful, regularly testing the patience of her co-workers, but she is also warm and friendly in nature. She has been married to Alan, who is never seen, for 50 years and regularly talks about him.
• Sue Benson — Sue is a customer service assistant and best friend to her co-worker, Linda, with whom she regularly gossips with about the other staff members and customers. Sue is a mother of three and later discovers she is pregnant with her fourth child.
• Linda Stubbings — Linda is co-customer service assistant and best friend to Sue. She spent three years with Neville, but the pair split, later reuniting in the Christmas day 2018 episode.
• Neville — Neville is divorcee father of two and has lost everything to his ex-wife and therefore is forced to start again from the ground up taking a job a Valco. Initially starting as a kiosk assistant, Neville works his way up checkout operator and is currently working as a butcher. He found love with Linda, with her soon finding him too much to bear. Most of his Valco colleagues find him annoyingly dull and take advantage of his passive nature, especially Colin and Lisa. He reunities with Linda in the Christmas day 2018 special.
• Harry — Harry is a checkout operator. He is probably the brightest person at Valco having nine A* in his GCSEs. He is sarcastic and has a crush on Linda.
• Brian — Brian becomes the new pharmacist at Valco; having previously worked for Boots, he has decided not to reveal why he left.
• Cheryl Fairweather — Cheryl is the manager of rival chain Lauda, a new store opening directly opposite Valco. There is instant chemistry between Cheryl and Gavin and the pair eventually become and item. She later joins the Valco team as regional manager, becoming Gavin's boss.
• Heather — Heather is a store assistant at Valco
• Shai — Shai becomes Valco's newest store assistant and seems to have no common sense or social skills whatsoever.
• Donna Calabrese — Donna becomes Valco's new security guard. Taking the job far too seriously, she still can't manage to do it quite so well.
• Lou Chettle — Possibly the most dense employee Valco has ever hired, Lou is given the position of night manager when Valco becomes a 24-hour store, for which trouble ensues.
• Craig — Craig is a store assistant at Valco.
• Julie Cook — Julie had worked at Valco since leaving school. She was often disliked by her fellow co-workers due to her bitter attitude which was attributed to the fact that her fiancé left her for another woman; however, they later warm to her when she begins to show her softer side. Julie is offered the permanent position of deputy manager when Leanne takes maternity leave and decides not to return. She had secretly been in love with store manager, Gavin Strong, since joining the Valco team and had often attempted to gain his affections. At a Christmas party, her final attempt was once again unsuccessful, only this time Gavin discovered she was in love with him. She decided to leave Valco and later became co-store manager of Widnes. She later returned to briefly visit Gavin at Valco for Christmas.
• Andy Richmond — Andy was head butcher at Valco for many years and has worked alongside Kieran at the meat counter. He sees himself as a ladies man and would often take fun in winding up the staff and customers alike. When Andy is later reunited with Sarah, 'the one that got away' he decided to choose her over his job and leaves Valco to start a new life with Sarah in Scarborough.
• Kieran — Kieran was deputy butcher as Valco, and has worked with Andy and the meat counter, which whom he finds annoying to work with but at the same time they have become the best of mates. He is attracted to Katie, and later they get together and both decide to leave Valco.
• Leighton — Leighton was a store assistant and his career is his whole life. He is friendly, hard-working and optimistic, while he is also simple and gullible. He loves the attention of his co-workers and is needy of Valco's customers.
• Lorraine Chain — Lorraine replaced Gavin as store manager and launched the new 'No Nonsense' food range to Valco. She was plain-speaking and often crude with her overuse of the word 'bastard' and later turned on several members of staff, including Leighton and Andy, and those who didn't didn't follow her strict view of how Valco should be run. Her verbal abuse toward Julie caused her to suffer a nervous breakdown and take temporary absence. She was later fired from her position and Gavin returned to the job.
• Sharon — Sharon was head baker and would often enjoy to prank her co-workers.
• Richard France — Richard became Valco's new head of strategy and received the position in order to modernize the chain; however, his ideas began to clash with Gavin's view of how the company should be run and it became evident that Richard was trying to push Gavin out. Richard was soon dismissed from the job.
• Dave — Dave was a fishmonger on the supermarket fish counter. He had no experience on fish but was enthusiastic within his work.
• Ray — Ray was fishmonger at Valco and was obsessed with fish, and very much the opposite of his assistant, Dave, who had no knowledge of fish whatsoever. Ray and Dave, at first, do not get along, as Dave views Ray at the weird but they eventually begin to hit it off.
• Anna — Anna is Spanish and was checkout operator at Valco. She was Gavin's girlfriend and took the job just so she could be close to him, much to Julie's dismay.
• Rose — Rose became a checkout operator at Valco, and happens to be Colin's nan. She wants the best for Colin and with Lisa as his girlfriend, she does not meet Rose's expectations.
• Charlotte "Charlie" O'Connor — Charlie is the daughter of Brendan O'Connor, the owner of the entire Valco chain who believes that she should learn the business. She is dim-witted and oblivious to work concepts. Daniel receives the task of showing her the ropes and the two eventually begin to hit it off.
• Duncan Trench — Duncan was the representative of Pleasure Foods Sales, a new line of food products within Valco. He is annoying and arrogant and slowly driving Gavin mad.
• Holly — Holly is a Valco employee from another store and immediately takes an interest in Daniel. She is extremely jealous and Katie begins to see a different side to her sweet nature.
• Ian — Ian becomes Valco's security guard. He is inexperienced in his work, as he is not the best judge of character when it comes to criminals and is very trusting. He is gay and married.
• Daniel Wilson — Daniel joined Valco as assistant manager to Gavin and the two get along very well. He fell for Charlie, and following her departure, he set his sights on co-worker, Katie.

  Guest

• Catherine Tyldesley... Emma
• Moya Brady... Jill
• Rachel Leskovac... Leanne
• Louise Redknapp... Herself
• Stirling Gallacher... Customer Stirling
• Warren Clarke... Barry Hound
• Ian Botham... Himself
• Kelly Brook... Herself
• Geri Halliwell... Herself
• David Calder... Santa
• Carol Vorderman... Herself
• Kay Burley... Herself
• Richard Lumsden... Dr. Phillip
• Andrew Flintoff... Himself
• Richard Wilson... Frank Uture
• Karl Theobald... Phil Smith
• Olivia Poulet... Wendy
• Joseph May... Alan
• John Thomson... Tim
• Gwen Taylor... Lillian
• Nina Wadia... Meg

  Location

International broadcast

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DVD releases

• It has not yet been announced if the final Christmas special episode, which was broadcast in December 2018, will become available on DVD by 2019. It is also currently not known if a complete series set will be released.