Corrie stars thank fans for Inside Soap awards

There's some lovely little snippets in this week's Inside Soap magazine as the mag has interviews with the winners from last week's Inside Soap awards.

 

Joe Duttine, who plays Tim Metcalfe, won the award for Funniest Male.

He says: "I'm flattered to have been voted officially funny, it's so brilliant. I've really enjoyed the whole Sally-Tim-Kevin love triangle storyline. I loved filming Tim's wedding and marrying Sally has been my favourite plot so far. Sally is a very lucky lady indeed!  Thank you so much for voting for Tim. I'll get him to do your windows for cheap to return the favour!"

 

Alison King, who plays Carla Connor, won the award for Best Actress.

She says: "The fans seem to really connect to Carla and everything she goes through and are hugely supportive. So I'd like to say thank you very much!"

Alison also revealed there's going to be a life-changing event for Carla.

Kate Ford, who plays Tracy Barlow, won the award for Best Bad Girl. 

She says: "I'm really pleased and I'm very honoured.  My mum has always been such an inspiration to me. I give her my awards because she likes to keep them. I look up to her so much."

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Vote for Corrie as Best Soap - Inside Soap Awards 2015

Voting has now closed in the Inside Soap Awards except for one category - that of Best Soap. 

If you would like to vote for Coronation Street, then voting is open until the day of the awards ceremony - Monday October 5th.


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Shortlist revealed in Inside Soap Awards 2015

It's still not too late to vote for Coronation Street as Best Soap in the Inside Soap Awards 2015.
Vote here.  Closing date for your vote is Monday 5 October, and the awards ceremony takes place that evening.

The shortlist for all the categories have been announced today by Inside Soap.  Here are the categories in which any of the Corrie cast have been nominated:

BEST ACTOR
Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald, Corrie)

BEST ACTRESS
Alison King (Carla Connor, Corrie)

BEST BAD BOY
Sean Ward (Callum Logan, Corrie)

BEST BAD GIRL
Kate Ford (Tracy Barlow, Corrie)

FUNNIEST MALE
Joe Duttine (Tim Metcalfe, Corrie)
Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald, Corrie)

FUNNIEST FEMALE
Patti Clare (Mary Taylor, Corrie)

BEST NEWCOMER
Lucy Fallon (Bethany Platt, Corrie)

BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Colson Smith (Craig Tinker, Corrie)

SEXIEST MALE
No Corrie nominations.  

SEXIEST FEMALE
Kym Marsh (Michelle Connor, Corrie)

BEST SHOCK TWIST
Kal & Maddie die (Corrie)

BEST AFFAIR
No Corrie nominations.
BEST PARTNERSHIP
Kym Marsh & Simon Gregson (Michelle Connor & Steve McDonald, Corrie)

BEST SHOW-STOPPER
The minibus crash (Corrie)

BEST SOAP - still to be decided - CLICK HERE to vote Corrie for Best Soap - you have until Monday 5 October!

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Video: Behind the scenes at Corrie photoshoot

Here's a nice little video of the Inside Soap photoshoot we blogged about earlier this week, where cast members revealed some behind-the-scenes secrets.

In the video, Inside Soap magazine meets Coronation Street's Sally Ann Matthews (Jenny Bradley), Jack P Shepherd (David Platt), Lucy Fallon (Bethany Platt), Sean Ward (Callum Logan), Ellie Leach (Faye Windass) and Colson Smith (Craig Tinker) as they have their pictures taken for the magazine.



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Inside Soap Award nominees reveal Corrie secrets

This week's Inside Soap magazine has an exclusive photo shoot of some of the Coronation Street cast members nominated in the Inside Soap Awards. And what a good photo shoot it is.

All dolled up in their best bib and tucker are Sally Ann Matthew (Jenny Bradley), Colson Smith (Craig Tinker), Ellie Leach (Faye Windass), Jack P Shepherd (David Platt), Lucy Fallon (Bethany Platt) and Sean Ward (Callum Logan).

As well as the pictures of them all glammed up, there's a few snippets from behind the scenes from each of them too.

Sean Ward (Callum) is nominated for Best Bad Boy and Sexiest Male. He says that in real life: "People are always asking me for drugs! Even if I'm just in the supermarket with my mum, it's terrible."  Sean admits he doesn't drive so he has a driving double on the Corrie set, and says he'd love to do a scene with Barbara Knox, who plays Rita.  I'd love to see that too, she'd scare the living daylights out of Callum.

Lucy Fallon (Bethany) is nominated for Best Newcomer and she's one I have voted for. I love her and think she's ace.  Lucy says she'd love to have some scenes with Kate Ford as Tracy Barlow. "I think there would be fireworks if they crossed each other," she says. I can see Bethany joining Team-Evil at Barlow's Buys with toxic Todd and terrible Tracy.

Jack P Shepherd (David) is nominated for Best Actor. He says he loves acting with Les Dennis (Michael Rodwell). "It's hilarious doing scenes when he's in them because he's always corpsing and then he just laughs in your face."  When asked if the cast like to play pranks on each other, Jack says "Of course! Colson Smith (Craig) is the biggest target at the minute.  He's only just started coming into the green room so he's fresh meat.  It's him and Ches (aka actor Sam Aston) - everyone calls him Chesney, no one calls him Sam!"

Ellie Leach (Faye) and Colson Smith (Craig) say they're great friends off-screen as well as on-screen.  Colson and Ellie have both been nominated for Best Young Actor although Colson says he should have been nominated for Sexiest Male.  It was a hard decision for me to know which one of these two to vote for in this category, they have been both excellent. Colson admitted there could be romance on the cards for Craig coming up!

Sally Ann Matthews (Jenny) is nominated for Best Bad Girl. She talks about Jenny's wig having its own twitter account and admits she didn't keep it as it was a really nasty, cheap wig.  She says she would give an award to Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop) in Corrie as she is the ultimate professional on the show and she has a wicked sense of humour.

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Vote for Corrie! Inside Soap Awards 2015

Voting has opened today on the long-list in the Inside Soap Awards 2015.  So, who has been nominated from Coronation Street for us to vote on this year?

Best Soap Actor: Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald), David Neilson (Roy Cropper) or Jack P Shepherd (David Platt)
Best Soap Actress: Bev Callard (Liz McDonald), Jane Danson (Leanne Barlow), Alison King (Carla Connor)
Best Bad Boy: Terence Maynard (Tony Stewart) or Sean Ward (Callum Logan)
Best Bad Girl: Kate Ford (Tracy Barlow) or Sally Ann Matthews (Jenny Bradley)
Funniest Male: Joe Duttine (Tim Metcalfe) or Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald)
Funniest Female: Patti Clare (Mary Taylor) or Sally Dynevor (Sally Webster)
Best Newcomer: Qasim Akhtar (Zeedan Nazir) or Lucy Fallon (Bethany Platt)
Best Young Actor: Ellie Leach (Faye Windass) or Colson Smith (Craig Tinker)
Sexiest Male: Oliver Farnworth (Andy Carver) or Sean Ward (Callum Logan)
Sexiest Female: Kym Marsh (Michelle McDonald) or Tisha Merry (Steph Britton)
Best Shock Twist: Carla turns in Rob or Kal and Maddie die
Best Affair: Tracy and Tony or Alya and Jason
Best Partnership: Joe Duttine and Sally Dynevor (Tim Metcalfe and Sally Webster) or Kym Marsh and Simon Gregson (Michelle and Steve McDonald)
Best Show Stopper: The Mini Bus Crash or The Victoria Court Fire
Best Soap: Coronation Street

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