diff --git a/news/2 Fixes/10204.md b/news/2 Fixes/10204.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8456ecbf29c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/2 Fixes/10204.md	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix empty variables to show an empty string in the Notebook/Interactive Window variable explorer.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/datascience/jupyter/jupyterVariables.ts b/src/client/datascience/jupyter/jupyterVariables.ts
index a765f1cd2c45..35620498a1a9 100644
--- a/src/client/datascience/jupyter/jupyterVariables.ts
+++ b/src/client/datascience/jupyter/jupyterVariables.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import { JupyterDataRateLimitError } from './jupyterDataRateLimitError';
 // kernels will add the ansi encoding.
 const TypeRegex = /.*?\[.*?;31mType:.*?\[0m\s+(\w+)/;
 const ValueRegex = /.*?\[.*?;31mValue:.*?\[0m\s+(.*)/;
-const StringFormRegex = /.*?\[.*?;31mString form:.*?\[0m\s+([\s\S]+?)\n.*?\[.*?/;
+const StringFormRegex = /.*?\[.*?;31mString form:.*?\[0m\s*?([\s\S]+?)\n(.*\[.*;31m?)/;
 const DocStringRegex = /.*?\[.*?;31mDocstring:.*?\[0m\s+(.*)/;
 const CountRegex = /.*?\[.*?;31mLength:.*?\[0m\s+(.*)/;
 const ShapeRegex = /^\s+\[(\d+) rows x (\d+) columns\]/m;
diff --git a/src/test/datascience/jupyterVariables.unit.test.ts b/src/test/datascience/jupyterVariables.unit.test.ts
index 11924dcb9c86..893bbba9e646 100644
--- a/src/test/datascience/jupyterVariables.unit.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/datascience/jupyterVariables.unit.test.ts
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ This is equivalent to (real + imag*1j) where imag defaults to 0.
             truncated: true,
             count: 0,
             shape: '',
-            value: '(1+1j)',
+            value: ' (1+1j)',
             supportsDataExplorer: false
         };