This page is about the original UK version of Sheila Jackson. For the US incarnation, see Sheila Jackson (US).
Sheila Jackson (previously Sheila Gallagher) is the thrice married, second wife of Frank Gallagher. She is the mother of Karen, who she had with her second husband Eddie Jackson, and of twins Nigel and Delia Gallagher, whom she had with Frank in 2005.
Eddie[]
Sheila is introduced to the series as a severe agoraphobic, locked in an unhappy marriage to Eddie Jackson, who holds radical Christian beliefs and provides Sheila with a non-existent sex life. Upon catching their daughter Karen giving oral sex to Ian Gallagher in their kitchen, Eddie flies off the handle and chases Ian and Lip down. He then packs his bags and leaves the house, never to return.
Frank[]
Eddie meets Frank Gallagher in the pub and, knowing that he's the father of Ian, he headbutts Frank and knocks him out. Later on, he buys Frank a pint and sits down with him to spill out all his frustration about the sorry state of his marriage and family life. When he talks about Sheila's many disability checks and lust for sex, Frank immediately ditches him and arrives at Sheila's house, apparently to apologize for his sons' behaviour.
Sheila is instantly enamoured with him and offers him a bath with hot water, a luxury he doesn't have at home. The two then go on to have sex, although Sheila insists on tying Frank up and giving him anal sex with her dildo collection. She goes on to fall deeply in love with Frank and falls pregnant, eventually giving birth to twins Nigel and Delia at Christmas 2004.
Sheila was first married to Sheldon who she murdered and buried in her back garden after years of receiving domestic abuse. Her second husband and father of Karen, Eddie, left her in Series 1.
Sheila suffered from agoraphobia in most of her tenure in the show. and is a fan of daytime television, especially Countdown, finding it unbelievable that someone doesn't know who Carol Vorderman or Richard Whiteley are. She named her twins after famous chefs, Delia Smith and Nigel Slater. In her final episode, Frank chooses Sheila over Monica, he rushes to get to her house, before she leaves to board a cruise, he gets there just in time, Frank then announces his decision to choose Sheila, until a slip of the tongue by Frank revealed that, despite saying he did, he never divorced Monica and instead went to a booze store (shown in an earlier episode, she never found out), therefore making Frank’s and Sheila’s marriage invalid. This broke Sheila’s heart so she left for the cruise anyway with the twins in utter fury.