Blog Exclusive! Grace Dent's soap secrets

Last week we brought you an exclusive interview with Steven Murphy, editor of the fab Inside Soap magazine and this week we've got another soaps exclusive for you!

Soap Queen Grace Dent reveals all about her World of Lather column, who her Coronation Street favourites are and where she likes to sit on a double-decker bus.

To read all about Grace Dent's soaps secrets, illustrated wonderfully by Thea Brine, have a look here, it's great.

Grace Dent's World of Lather on Kevin and Molly

Grace Dent, for those who don't know, is one of soap's best reviewers in the UK and writes a monthly soap update for The Guardian Guide. This week she rips into Molly and Kevin's love affair with some wonderful wit. Read it here.

Sadly, the one thing Coronation Street fans don't get with the online version of Grace's update is the absolutely fantastic illustrations which accompany it. Drawn by Thea Brine, this week it's Molly, er stretching her hamstrings in front of Kevin who's wearing his dirty overalls and Top Man socks.

Grace Dent's World of Lather

It's time for the monthly bubble-wrap from the Guardian's Grace Dent. In her World of Lather column this month she reviews Steve and Becky's wedding that never was. It's great stuff .

Online viewers of Grace Dent's column can't see the current, wonderful, Steve and Becky illustration by the fab Thea Brine. However, you can see some of her past Coronation Street drawings - like this one of Deirdre and Ken - on her website here and some of the illustrations are up for sale too.

Corrie shock and awe: the Windass clan have a fan

Grace Dent's World of Lather always puts a smile on my face when I read her column once a month in The Guardian. But this month I was a little bemused and confused. Could it really be that she's a fan of the Coronation Street Windass clan? Read it and weep. What fans don't get, however, reading Grace's words online is the fantastic illustration from Thea Brine which accompanies each piece in the paper. This month it was a wonderful charicature of Ma and Pa Windass.

The best Corrie reviews in the world

The two best Coronation Street reviewers are undoubtedly Nancy Banks-Smith and Grace Dent.

Both write for The Guardian where Nancy writes a (much too infrequent) Corrie episode review and Grace writes a monthly Word of Lather column.

Grace's columns are always accompanied by a Thea Brine illustration and prints of some of her Corrie ones are up for sale too. Ladies, you rock.

Thea Brine's Corrie illustrations

Thea Brine is the talented illustrator who's work appears in The Guardian's Guide magazine alongside Grace Dent's fab World of Lather column each month.

See more of Thea's work, including Corrie illustrations, on her website right here.