List of Hollyoaks Characters (2005) - Margaret Hayton

Margaret Hayton is the mother of Becca (Ali Bastian) and Nancy Hayton (Jessica Fox). Margaret and her husband Charles were wealthy and had some reservations about Becca's relationship with Jake Dean (Kevin Sacre), but attended their wedding. Charles suffered a heart attack the following year, and died a few months later. Margaret returned in October 2006 when she learned Becca was engaged to teenager Justin Burton (Chris Fountain). Margaret was extremely apprehensive about the relationship, along with Nancy's relationship with tattoo artist Foz, but went along with what her daughters wanted. Over the course of the next year, Becca gave birth to a son Charlie, who was thought to be Jake's child, was sent to prison and stabbed to death. When Margaret returned the next summer, she was surprised to see Nancy, who was raising Charlie, had taken up with Jake. She wanted to take Charlie to raise for herself, but Jake and Nancy refused. Margaret told Nancy she would never be as good as Becca, no matter how much she tried.

In February 2012, Margaret turns up out of the blue, and she is not pleased about Nancy's relationship with Darren Osborne (Ashley Taylor Dawson), and when Nancy thinks Darren is having an affair with Cindy Cunningham (Stephanie Waring), Margaret convinces Nancy to go and live in Canada with her once they have laid flowers on Becca's grave on Valentine's Day, the anniversary of her death, which is also the day Darren has arranged a surprise wedding for Nancy. Nancy marries Darren and decides to stay in Hollyoaks and Margaret returns to Canada alone.

In June 2013, it is revealed Margaret has been killed in a car accident so Nancy flies out to Canada make funeral arrangements.