{"id":372583,"date":"2025-12-27T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372583\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:26:11","slug":"its-coronation-streets-year-in-the-digital-spy-reader-awards-soaps-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372583\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Coronation Street’s year in the Digital Spy Reader Awards Soaps categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025 was another action-packed year for all our favourite soaps, with romance and relationships blossoming but also dark themes such as knife crime and grooming also being explored. <\/p>\n

Once again, some of the best of British talent has been shining out from these long-running series, so here, as voted by you, are the results of the best of the soap world this year. <\/p>\n

(Looking for the other categories? You can see the TV winners here<\/a> and Movies winners here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Soaps – Best Actor\"lisa1. Vicky Myers (Lisa Swain, Coronation Street)\"aaron2. Danny Miller (Aaron Dingle, Emmerdale)\"sue3. Sue Devaney (Debbie Webster, Coronation Street)MCPIX\/Zenpix<\/p>\n

It’s the first of a couple of awards this year for Vicky Myers, who plays DSI Lisa Swain in Coronation Street<\/a>, and who is in a relationship with Carla Connor. Taking second place is Emmerdale’s Danny Miller, who plays the troubled Aaron Dingle<\/a>, while Sue Devaney won plaudits for her storyline in which her Corrie character, Debbie Webster, has been diagnosed with dementia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Best New Casting\"lewis1. Bradley Riches (Lewis Barton, Emmerdale)\"maggie2. Pauline McLynn (Maggie Driscoll, Coronation Street)\"coronation3. Ryan Mulvey (Brody Michaelis, Coronation Street)<\/p>\n

Some new faces really lifted the soap worlds this year, with Emmerdale’s first neurodivergent character, Lewis Barton \u2013 played by Bradley Riches<\/a> \u2013 being voted the best of the bunch. He filmed a little message for the fans that you can see right here:<\/p>\n

Former Father Ted star Pauline McLynn livened up the screen whenever she appeared as Maggie Driscoll in Corrie<\/a>, while her co-star, Ryan Mulvey \u2013 who plays Brody Michaelis<\/a> \u2013 came in at third place. <\/p>\n

Best Soap\"coronation1. Coronation Street\"kev,2. Emmerdale\"max3. EastEnders<\/p>\n

For the second year in a row, Coronation Street<\/a> has been voted the best soap, followed by Emmerdale<\/a>, and then EastEnders<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Saddest Soap Moment\"mason1. Coronation Street: Mason’s knife crime tragedy\"craig2. Coronation Street: Craig is killed by Mick\"emmerdale3. Emmerdale: The limo crash deaths<\/p>\n

There were lots of weepy moments across the year in soaps, but the most tear-jerking was voted as Coronation Street’s Mason Radcliffe<\/a> (Luca Toolan) being fatally stabbed by his brothers with a zombie knife. Another Corrie death \u2013 policeman Craig Tinker, killed by Mick Michaelis<\/a> \u2013 took second place, and fans are still reeling from Emmerdale’s limo crash, and the resulting deaths. <\/p>\n

Best Soap Storyline\"mason1. Mason Radcliffe\"debbie2. Coronation Street: Debbie’s dementia\"emmerdale3. Emmerdale: John’s reign of terror<\/p>\n

Mason’s murder in Corrie<\/a> was so affecting for viewers, that it takes a second prize in the awards, with it also being voted the best soap storyline, shortly followed by Debbie Webster’s decline due to dementia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A true soap villain is in third place, with John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth) and his long, shopping-list of heinous crimes committed<\/a> \u2013 murder, assault, poisoning and drugging to name just a few. But have we seen the last of him? This being soapland, we’d recommend the good people of Emmerdale keep a careful look out just in case… <\/p>\n

Best Soap Couple\"carla1. Carla Connor and Lisa Swain (Coronation Street)\"aaron2. Aaron Dingle and Robert Sugden (Emmerdale)\"suki3. Eve and Suki Panesar-Unwin (EastEnders)<\/p>\n

It’s all love for Corrie’s Carla Connor and Lisa Swain<\/a>, who pick up the prize for best soap couple, followed by the tumultuous romance of Aaron Dingle and Robert Sugden<\/a> in Emmerdale. In third place \u2013 and the third same-sex couple voted in the category \u2013 is ‘Enders’ Eve and Suki Panesar-Unwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OMG Soap Moment\"from1. Coronation Street: Becky\u2019s back to destroy Lisa and Carla\"robert2. Emmerdale: Robert makes a surprise return\"mason3. Coronation Street: Mason’s knife crime death<\/p>\n

The question is, with all the high drama from the year, how do you even begin to narrow this category down? <\/p>\n

The viewers have spoken though, and Becky Swain’s return from the dead in Corrie<\/a> to destroy Carla and Lisa was voted the most jaw-dropping moment of the year in soaps. <\/p>\n

Robert Sugden’s surprise return in Emmerdale<\/a> took second place, while Mason Radcliffe’s murder in Coronation Street<\/a> landed third place, and was the third time the harrowing event was commended in the awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 was another action-packed year for all our favourite soaps, with romance and relationships blossoming but also dark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[182629,88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-372583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-digital-spy-reader-awards","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}