Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe

Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe
First appearance	Getting a Result (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	Fall from Grace (episode 2.08)
Created by	Maureen Chadwick Ann McManus
Portrayed by	Susie Amy
Information
Aliases	Chardonnay Lane Carol Susan Lane
Gender	Female
Occupation	Former model TV Personality
Family	Jackie Pascoe-Webb (mother in-law)
Spouse(s)	Kyle Pascoe (husband, widower)
Children	Paddy Pascoe (adoptive son)

Carol Susan 'Chardonnay' Pascoe (née Lane) was a fictional character on the ITV1 television series Footballers' Wives, loosely based on glamour model Jordan and played by Susie Amy. She takes her name from the Chardonnay variety of wine grape.

Life Before Series 1

Chardonnay was a rich and successful model with her entire career ahead of her, until she met her husband to be Kyle Pascoe.

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. 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.