EastEnders has picked up multiple trophies at the Inside Soap Awards, winning five coveted trophies including Best Soap.
The Inside Soap Awards, which celebrated 30 years of Inside Soap magazine as the annual ceremony came back with a bang, saw the BBC One soap triumph.
Gillian Wright, who plays Jean Slater, won Best Actress after a year in which she’s broken hearts with Jean’s mental health storyline.
The episode in which Jean went to Southend in her wedding dress, walking into the sea in a distressed state before being rescued by daughter Stacey (Lacey Turner), received the Best Showstopper award – a gong given to a soap event that had the audience on the edge of their seats.
Lacey Turner, meanwhile, was honoured by being named Inside Soap readers’ ‘All-time soap icon.’ She was presented with a unique gold trophy at the star-studded event.
EastEnders’ fantastic night was rounded off by Heather Peace taking the award for Best Newcomer for her role as the feisty Eve Unwin.
Meanwhile it was a great night for Mark Charnock, who plays Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale.
He took the Best Actor award for his portrayal of the beloved character, who this year has had to contend with massive changes to his life after having a stroke. Mark’s sensitive and moving performance was also acknowledged with his stroke storyline winning the Best Storyline category.
The Inside Soap Awards Winners 2022
BEST SOAP
EastEnders
BEST ACTRESS
Gillian Wright (Jean Slater, EastEnders)
BEST ACTOR
Mark Charnock (Marlon Dingle, Emmerdale)
BEST NEWCOMER
Heather Peace (Eve Unwin, EastEnders)
BEST VILLAIN
Paige Sandhu (Meena Jutla, Emmerdale)
BEST COMIC PERFORMANCE
Maureen Lipman (Evelyn Plummer, Coronation Street)
BEST DOUBLE ACT (a non-romantic pairing)
Anna Passey & Kieron Richardson (Sienna Blake & Ste Hay, Hollyoaks)
BEST YOUNG PERFORMER (Age 17 or under)
Isabella Flanagan (Hope Stape, Coronation Street)
BEST FAMILY
The Platts (Coronation Street)
BEST STORYLINE
Marlon’s stroke (Emmerdale)
BEST ROMANCE
Zoe Henry & Mark Charnock (Rhona Goskirk & Marlon Dingle, Emmerdale)
BEST SHOWSTOPPER
Jean in Southend (EastEnders)
BEST DRAMA STAR
Rosie Marcel (Jac Naylor, Holby City)
BEST DAYTIME STAR
Stefan Dennis (Paul Robinson, Neighbours)
BEST DAYTIME SOAP
Neighbours
INSIDE SOAP ALL-TIME ICON
Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater, EastEnders)
By Marlon’s side as he dealt with the challenges of his disability was his wife Rhona (Zoe Henry), and their romance touched Inside Soap readers’ hearts to earn it the Best Romance prize.
As well as heroes, Emmerdale’s most heinous baddie Meena Jutla was also honoured as she won the Best Villain category.
Coronation Street’s Platt family were named Best Family in a year when they’ve gone through huge upheavals often centring around matriarch Audrey.
Maureen Lipman’s turn as the sharp-tongued Evelyn Plummer won the Best Comic Performance prize, while Best Young Performer went to Isabella Flanagan, who plays Hope Stape, who beat her sister Amelia, who plays April Windsor in Emmerdale, to the prize.
Hollyoaks’ iconic pairing of Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) and Ste Hay (Kieron Richardson) received the Best Double Act, awarded to a non-romantic pairing.
Daytime soaps were also represented, and the much-missed Neighbours was the big winner in this category, winning Best Daytime Soap as well as Best Daytime Star for Stefan Dennis, who played Paul Robinson in the long-running series which was taken off air in July.
And on that subject, Rosie Marcel, whose character Jac Naylor died in the very last episode of Holby City, won the Best Drama Star award for a performance that left Holby fans in tears as she died of a brain tumour, as we lost both the beloved character and the show that she was so central to back in March.
Inside Soap editor Gary Gillatt commented, ’An even spread of wins across Britain’s favourite TV shows is testament to a great year of soap,’ while observing, ‘It’s interesting to see, after a host of ambitious, stunt-packed episodes, that it was the more human-scale dramas and performance that really won through – with Marlon’s story in Emmerdale, and Jean’s in EastEnders.
‘That said, fans also enjoyed their slice of murderous mayhem from Emmerdale’s Meena, too!’
More than 90,000 soap fans vote each year in The Inside Soap Awards, and they remain, after three decades, the only accolades of their kind to be awarded based solely on the votes of viewers.
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