Stella Rigby was the landlady of the White Swan, member of the Lady Victuallers, wife of Paul, and friend of Bet Lynch. Stella invited Bet to join the LV just after Bet became landlady of the Rovers in March 1985. The LV had been the cornerstone of Annie Walker's social life and Stella was cut from the same cloth as the former landlady; full of airs and graces and, in their first few encounters, a thinly-veiled disdain for Bet. According to Alec Gilroy, she was a nymphomaniac.