Eastenders

Eastenders was voted the ‘Best Soap’ last night at the Inside Soap Awards ceremony held at Sketch Nightclub in London’s West End.

Lacy Turner who plays the part of Stacey Slater in the BBC drama, was given the award for ‘Best Actress’ for the fourth time in a row, while Charlie Brooks who plays Janine Butcher was voted ‘Best Bitch’.

Larry Lamb’s character Archie Mitchell, was voted ‘Best Bad Boy’ and along with Charlie Brooks the couple also scooped the prize for ‘Best Storyline’.

Kara Tointon, who left the show earlier this year was voted ‘Best Dressed Female’ for her character Dawn Swann and John Partridge, who plays the part of Christian Clarke was awarded ‘Sexiest Male’.

The cast of Coronation Street also one a selection of awards with Gray O’Brien voted ‘Best Actor’ for his portrayal of Tony Gordon while  Michelle Keegan who plays Tina McIntyre was voted ‘Sexiest Female’.

The ‘Best Newcomer’ award went to Coronation Street butcher Graeme Proctor, played by Craig Gazey and Maggie Jones received the award for ‘Funniest Performance’ for her character Blanche Hunt.  Coronation street also received an award for Alex Bain for his character of the young Simon Barlow.

Hollyoaks only picked up one award last night for ‘Best Family’ going to the McQueens, while The Bill was awarded the prize for ‘Best Drama’ for the fourth consecutive year and Emmerdale left empty-handed.

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The cast of the BBC 1 soap opera Eastenders, collected three of the five awards presented at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards last night.

The ceremony took place at the Dorchester Hotel with the cast of the ITV soap ‘Emmerdale’ and the Channel 4 soap ‘Hollyoaks’, leaving the annual event empty handed.

As well as receiving the Award for Best Soap, former Eastenders actress Lauren Crace, who played the part of Danielle Jones for seven-months, won the prize for the Best Soap Newcomer, despite leaving the show in April.

Lauren was also awarded for her part in the Best Soap Storyline, which saw Danielle attempting to build a relationship with her birth mother Ronnie Mitchell, played by Samantha Womack.  Just as Ronnie began to accept Danielle as her daughter, the young girl was tragically knocked-down by a car and killed.

Coronation Streets latest newly-weds Steve and Becky McDonald, played by Simon Gregson and Katherine Kelly, were presented for the awards for the Best Actor and Actress of 2009.

Watching The Soaps

The stars of the British soaps turned out last night for the Inside soap awards with Eastenders being voted the Best Soap and taking the majority of the gongs.

Kara Tointon who plays Dawn Swann in Eastenders won an award for the Sexiest Female and didn’t disappoint her fans as she wore a figure-hugging gold dress and a new hairstyle.  The new brunette bob was actually a wig but she looked fantastic.

Rita Simmons who plays Roxy Slater in the BBC soap was voted the Best Newcomer and Lacey Turner, who plays Stacey Branning, was again awarded the gong for Best Actress as well as part of the Best Couple alongside her on-screen husband, Bradley Branning played by Charlie Clements.

Sean Slater played by Robert Kazinsky in Eastenders won the Best Actor plus the Sexiest Male while Cheryl Fergison who plays Heather Trott was awarded for the Funniest Performance.

Coronation Street took awards for Best Bad Boy, played by Jack P Shepherd, who’s character is David Platt and Alison King who plays Carla Connor was voted the Best Bitch.

Kym Marsh who plays a barmaid in Coronation Street was voted the Best-Dressed Soap Star of 2008.

The Best Drama award went to The Bill while the Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Chris Chittell who plays the part of Eric Pollard in Emmerdale.

Hollyoaks won an award for the Best Young Actor played by Ellis Hollins who’s character is Tom Cunningham.

Mr McFadden, 49, fell down some stairs and shattered his hand which has now been pinned and has 30 stitches in it.

The actor returned to work after only two days and said “I’m feeling much better”. The injury has now been written into the script as he will have to wear a splint for a couple of weeks.

In March this year, Sam Janus fell downstairs and broke her shoulder and in 2006 Barbara Windsor ended up with a broken wrist and sprained ankle.

The Hollyoaks actress, Roxanne McKee who plays Louise Summers, was voted the sexiest female, Chris Fountain won Best Actor for his role as Justin Burton and Best Actress went to Emma Rigby who plays Hannah Ashworth.

Eastenders claimed four prizes on the night including the Best Soap Award, a much better evening for the BBC programme who last year only received one prize.

Jo Joyner won Best Dramatic Performance for her role as Tanya Branning and Jamie Brothwick was voted Best Dramatic Performance from a young actor for his part of Jay Brown.  The show was also voted Best Storyline for the drama of Max and Stacey’s affair.

Coronation Street won five awards at the ceremony including Best Newcomer for Michelle Keegan who plays Tina McIntyre.  They were also presented a gong for Best Comedy Performance for Maggie Jones as Blanche Hunt.

The Streets Liam Connor played by Rob James Collier was voted Sexiest Male and the Best Villain went to none other than Jack P Shephard who plays David Platt.

Liz Dawn was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for her character, Vera Duckworth which ended in January after 34 years on the Street.

Emmerdale were presented with two awards, one for Best Single Episode and the other was a special award for one of the producers.

The award ceremony will be hosted by Philip Schofield, 46, and Fern Britton, 50, and the categories range from Best Actor to Villain Of The Year, and the Best Storyline to Spectacular Scene Of The Year.

Philip told the Sun “It’s the best party in town!  Because the soap teams work so hard and it seems that they work harder every year, this is the one night they can truly let their hair down.  They party like no other people I have ever come across.  After the awards, I briefly go into the party, do a circuit and get out before it gets messy!

This years British Soap Awards, take place on 7th May on ITV1 at 8pm