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Sir David Jason appeared at the British Soap Awards tonight where he presented the Best British Soap award this evening to EastEnders, which won big on the night

Sir David Jason had fans all saying the same thing – as he appeared at the British Soap Awards tonight. The legendary actor was on hand to present the Best British Soap award this evening.

The soap awards actually took place on Saturday but they were broadcasted on ITV this evening – and after a delay due to a technical error, the awards got underway. David handed over the Best Soap award to EastEnders, who were the big winners tonight.

As David arrived on stage to present the award, the soap stars were seen in awe – and it was clear viewers felt the same.

One fan wrote: “The legendary Sir David Jason walking out to screams of excitement and admiration was incredible, the atmosphere was truly electric. Couldn’t have wished for a better person to announce the winner,” whilst a second added: “Great to see Sir David Jason on the #BritishSoapAwards tonight. What an absolute legend!!”

“Huge congratulations to EastEnders and how well does Sir David Jason look !! What a legend #britishsoapawards,” a third said, with a fourth adding: “I teared up seeing David Jason.” A fifth wrote: “N’awww a standing ovation for Sir David Jason.”

David previously opened up about how he had to part ways with his helicopter with “extreme reluctance” as he struggled with his physical health. He said: “You need your hips, legs and knees to be in pretty tip-top condition for helicopter flying.

“Also your arms and shoulders. It’s rather like playing a drum kit in that regard, although the consequences of getting out of time during the second verse are quite a bit graver.”

He added: “I realised I was getting increasingly uncomfortable up there in the air. Having to push the physical part of the task was taking some of the joy out of it. Clearly it was time to step away while I was still capable of stepping.”

David also explained how that was such a big part of his life – and it had been his “most satisfying accomplishment”.

“Flying that helicopter was a big part of my life. It was a lot of fun, obviously, but also just the most satisfying accomplishment. Some people have the piano, and some people have oil painting. I had the helicopter and it’s over now, but I’ll always be proud that I can call myself a qualified helicopter pilot,” he explained of his love of flying a helicopter.

Back in 2023, David also opened up about his health as he admitted his concerns over his memory and his physical health.

“My memory isn’t what it used to be … Most of us reach this point when things aren’t quite as bright as they used to be,” he said as he discussed his hip replacement and his general health, “Mind you, I don’t wear a hearing aid, I don’t wear glasses, and I’ve only had to replace one bit of my body, so I’m not doing too bad.”

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ITV viewers have slammed the channel as the service crashed – stopping them watching The British Soap Awards 2025.

Soap fans were tuning into watch the awards ceremony, which was meant to start at 8pm.

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But the programme was delayed by seven minutes with just a message from the broadcaster and a black screen.

The message read: “We’re sorry for the disruption.”

Fans were quick to take to social media with their complaints.

One wrote: “What the hell is going on ? Will it ever come on?”

A second said: “Oh dear looks like we got major problems on ITV1.”

A third commented: “Well, I guess I am not watching The Soap Awards on ITVX. What’s going on?”

Despite the delay, the ceremony, which was filmed earlier this week, kicked off with Jane McDonald hosting for a second year.

It comes after Coronation Street were brutally snubbed at the awards as they failed to pick up any of the previously announced awards at this year’s ceremony.

The annual soap event made a return this year after ITV mysteriously axed the contest in 2024.

But it was bad news for Coronation Street as the programme suffered a devastating loss after managing to bag just the specially curated Outstanding Achievement Award which went to Roy Cropper star David Neilson.

The show failed to secure wins in any of the main panel or viewer-voted categories amid ITV’s ongoing cash crisis and the mass cast exodus at the soap over the past six months.

Its ITV counterpart Emmerdale also faced a crushing blow ahead of the impending ITV schedule changes which will see 30 minutes worth of each programme cut a week from January 2026.

BBC rival EastEnders swept the board after collecting a total of eight gongs in its 40th anniversary year – more than double its nearest rival, Channel 4’s Hollyoaks who got three awards.

EastEnders was awarded Best Soap after its huge live episode and anniversary week which saw Anita Dobson return as Angie Watts and Martin Fowler killed off in the arms of his love, Stacey.

It was certainly not the only award that they picked up with actress Lacey Turner receiving the trophy for Best Leading Performer ahead of her impending exit from the show.

The 40th anniversary also managed to clutch the Scene of the Year thanks to Angie’s shock return.

Steve McFadden a won a trophy for Best Dramatic Performance as Phil Mitchell but did not attend the ceremony with Angela Wynter and Rudolph Walker also receiving prizes as Patrick and Yolande – beating Corrie fan favourites Lisa Swain and Carla Connor, affectionately known as Swarla, to the Best On-Screen Partnership award.

The Walford based soap also collected the Comedy Performance gongs and Villain of the Year.

In a major blow to Coronation Street, only David Neilson picked up the Outstanding Achievement Award as Roy Cropper which was presented to him by by his on-screen wife Julie Hesmondhalgh.

British Soap Awards 2025: Winners List

Here’s who took home trophys at the 2025 British Soap Awards

Best Single Episode – Eastenders: Phil’s Psychosis: The Mitchells In 1985

Best Young Performer – Emmerdale – Amelia Flanagan as April Windsor

Scene Of The Year – Eastenders: Angie Watts’ Shock Return

Best Newcomer – Hollyoaks: Isabelle Smith as Frankie Osborne

Villain Of The Year – Eastenders: Navin Chowdhry as Nish Panesar

Best Family – Hollyoaks: The Osbornes

Best Dramatic Performance – Eastenders: Steve McFadden as Phil
Mitchell

Best On-Screen Partnership – Eastenders: Rudolph Walker & Angela
Wynter as Patrick & Yolande Trueman

Outstanding Achievement Award – Coronation Street: David Neilson

Best Comedy Performance – Eastenders: Patsy Palmer as Bianca Jackson

The Tony Warren Award – Emmerdale: Mike Plant

Best Storyline – Hollyoaks: Sibling Sexual Abuse

Best Leading Performer – Eastenders: Lacey Turner as Stacey Slater

Best British Soap – Eastenders

Hollyoaks managed to win three awards with Isabelle Smith winning as Best Newcomer with The Osbourne family taking home Best Family and the sibling sexual abuse storyline being named Best Storyline.

Emmerdale managed just two awards with Amelia Flanagan beating her Corrie star brother Will to the Best Young Performer prize.

Mike Plant, one of the show’s camera operators, picked up the prestigious off-screen Tony Warren Award accolade for his contributions to the soap behind the scenes.

ITV’s crushing defeats come amid a period of unrest backstage at the shows.

Both Corrie and Emmerdale have lost a number of stars over the past 12 months amid cuts at the channel.

In particular, Coronation Street has faced increasing criticism of its far-fetched storylines and dwindling viewer interest in many of its plots.

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EastEnders icon Diane Parish took to social media over the weekend to share a fun-fuelled video of highlights from the 2025 British Soap Awards – which did not give away any of the winners

Diane Parish was in a celebratory mood on Saturday night as she joined her EastEnders castmates and headed to Hackney for the British Soap Awards 2025. The 55-year-old soap icon, famous for playing Denise Fox on the BBC show since 2006, had been on the long list for one of the show categories.

The star had been initially nominated for the Best Leading Performer gong, but did not advance to the second round of nominations for the prestigious award. Instead, EastEnders co-stars Lacey Turner and Kellie Bright were nominated for the gong alongside Emmerdale stars Beth Cordingly and Eden Taylor-Draper.

Stars from Hollyoaks and Coronation Street were also at the glitzy awards show on Saturday night, which was hosted by singing sensation and cruise ship enthusiast Jane McDonald. The full list of winners was announced on Saturday night, but some fans are waiting to find out who took home which prize when highlights from the ceremony are broadcast on ITV on Thursday night.

With this in mind, Diane took to social media on Sunday to share her own highlights from the night, which did not give anything away. She shared a two-and-a-half-minute-long video from the celebrations, which included footage of her partying with fellow soap stars before, during and after the event.

Uploading the footage to her main grid, Diane wrote: “NO SPOILERS for those who don’t wanna know. But I am sooooo PROUD of everyone who works on @bbceastenders What a night!”

Clips showed her laughing and chatting with co-stars, encouraging members of the public in the live audience to cheer, spotlighting Anita Dobson in the crowd, and partying at the after party. Soap stars were thrown into a panic at the party, however, as the after-show venue was hit by a bomb hoax.

The event was held at London’s Hackney Town Hall after the main awards. But attendees were suddenly asked to leave the venue shortly before 1am after the event had reportedly received a bomb threat.

“We all got evacuated just before 1am. No reason was given at first and security came round and told us we had to leave immediately,” a source told The Mirror – recounting the nerves shredding experience.

“As we all waited in the street outside, security told us there had been a bomb threat. We weren’t allowed back in the building so people started making their way home.”

In a video shared with The Mirror, some of TV’s biggest soap stars can be seen waiting outside the venue as more evacuate – with the likes of EastEnders’ Tameka Empson and former Hollyoaks star Emmett J Scanlan among them.

A show source also told The Mirror: “Owing to a security alert after the recording of the awards, it was necessary to evacuate the after party venue. Everyone was cleared from the building safely.”

Meanwhile, fans of soaps took to social media to slam ITV for failing to broadcast the event live – with many annoyed that they would have to wait until Thursday before being able to see who would take to the stage.

Taking to X to slam the delay in broadcast, one fan raged: “It’s ridiculous that the British Soap Awards isn’t live… there’s more hype for the soap stars arriving outside for something not even airing on tv for another week than there is the Britain’s Got Talent final… sort it out for next year please @itv.”

The British Soap Awards 2025 will be broadcast via ITV1 and ITVX on Thursday 5 June 2025 at 8pm.

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EastEnders and Emmerdale were the joint shows to beat at the 2025 British Soap Awards as both had an impressive 13 nominations over 12 categories each – but the BBC soap proved triumphant on the night

EastEnders were the big winners at tonight’s British Soap Awards, taking away the top gong. Named Best British Soap, they beat Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks to the coveted accolade.

Walking away with eight awards in total, Steve McFadden picked up Best Dramatic Performance and Best Single Episode for Phil Mitchell’s psychosis. It comes in the soap’s 40th anniversary year.

Hollyoaks got three awards, Emmerdale got two and Coronation Street walked away with one – the Outstanding Achievement Award to David Neilson, who has played Roy Cropper for 30 years. The biggest names in soapland dazzled on the glitter carpet – with Hollyoaks actress Jorgie Porter and Corrie favourite Tina O’Brien both looking sensational in the same dress, a sparkly Oh Polly number.

Speaking before she was presented with the scene of the year award, EastEnders legend Anita Dobson said: “It was just perfect.” And asked if she could return again, she said: “I don’t think so, although I should say never say never, it would have to be something extra special.”

Gillian Taylforth, who plays Kathy Beale, added: “It was just brilliant, although none of us knew that she was coming back! We’ll need Ange back if anything ever happened to Kathy, not that I want it too.”

Hosted by Jane McDonald, telly favourites Sir David Jason and Larry Lamb presented awards at London’s Hackney Empire.

The awards were back after being cancelled last year. Watch the British Soap Awards 2025 on Thursday 5 June via ITV1 and ITVX at 8pm.

The British Soap Awards 2025 winners list in full;

BEST BRITISH SOAP

EastEnders

BEST LEADING PERFORMER

EastEnders: Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater)

VILLAIN OF THE YEAR

EastEnders: Navin Chowdhry (Nish Panesar)

BEST COMEDY PERFORMANCE

Coronation Street: Jack P. Shepherd (David Platt)

BEST FAMILY

Hollyoaks: The Osbornes

BEST DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE

EastEnders: Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell)

BEST SINGLE EPISODE

EastEnders: Phil’s Psychosis: The Mitchells In 1985

BEST ON-SCREEN PARTNERSHIP

EastEnders: Rudolph Walker & Angela Wynter (Patrick & Yolande Trueman)

BEST NEWCOMER

Hollyoaks: Isabelle Smith (Frankie Osborne)

BEST STORYLINE

Hollyoaks: Sibling Sexual Abuse

BEST YOUNG PERFORMER

Emmerdale: Amelia Flanagan (April Windsor)

SCENE OF THE YEAR

EastEnders: Angie Watts’ Shock Return

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

David Neilson presented by Julie Hesmondhalgh

THE TONY WARREN AWARD

Emmerdale – MIKE PLANT

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The 2025 TV BAFTAs crowed some surprise winners – but fans of the hit BBC game show The Traitors were less than impressed when the series lost in all its categories

Fans of The Traitors were up in arms on Sunday night when the hit BBC show failed to win a single award at the 2025 TV BAFTAs. The reality game show sees contestants competing for a cash prize while trying to avoid being eliminated by non faithful members of the group.

On Sunday night, the show was nominated for three gongs – standing to win the Best Reality award, Best Entertainment Performance award, and the public-voted Memorable Moment award. But – to the outrage of devoted fans – the series failed to win a single gong.

Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial proved triumphant in the Best Reality category – while show host Claudia Winkleman failed to bring home the Best Entertainment Performance award, losing out to Joe Lycett for his Channel 4 show Late Night Lycett.

Despite having a loyal fanbase, the series also failed to win the public voted Memorable Moment award – and Strictly Come Dancing waltzed off with it instead for a powerful dance performed by Dianne Buswell and Chris McCausland. After realising that the Traitors had not managed to secure any wins, fans took to social media to complain – and plot a revolt.

Over on X, the fan page The Traitors HQ was quick to realise that betrayal had taken place at the hands of the voting experts. Unleashing a post over the failure to secure one of the top gongs, they raged: “The Traitors just LOST the award for Best Reality Show at the 2025 #BAFTATVAwards. We ride at dawn.”

The message spurned motivated other fans to express disappointment – with one asking “HOW” in response, while another raged: “Robbed , absolutely robbed . Never heard of the winner.”

There soon followed complaints over the fact Diane’s “iconic” line “Paul isn’t my son… but Ross is!” was overlooked in the memorable moment category – with one fan blasting: “RIGGED” in protest.

And then when Claudia lost the Best Entertainment Performance award to Joe Lycett – who did not even attend the awards – anger reached volcanic levels. One fan exclaimed: “Oh man! The Traitors are the best! You still a winner in my eyes!”

With the final results unveiled, The Traitors HQ recapped the unfortunate affair, typing: “Despite being the most watched and most talked about reality TV show of the past year, The Traitors UK walked away with ZERO awards at the 2025 #BAFTATVAwards. Thoughts?”

The fans did not hold back, with one writing: “ROBBED & UNDESERVED… Claudia deserved Best Presenter at the very least!” And another branded the outcome as: “Absolutely ridiculous”.

Other fans were more considered, however, with one reasoning: “They can’t allow one show to win everything every year.” While another pondered: “If the viewers don’t vote in the public votes it doesn’t help. Also sometimes super popular programmes don’t get voted for by the panel.”

Fans of The Traitors will have more devious episodes to watch over the coming year as the show will return for a fourth season – while the first ever UK celebrity version of the show began filming last month. A string of stars signed up to stab each other in the back on camera.

Comedy cutie Alan Carr, sports expert Clare Balding, national treasure Stephen Fry, and actor Nick Mohammed are among those taking part in the series – with the celeb edition expected to air at some point later this year.

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A BRIDGERTON star has cosied up to his glamorous girlfriend at the TV BAFTA Awards -just days after making their romance official.

The glittering star studded ceremony took place at London’s Royal Festival Hall and was hosted by US Traitors host Alan Cumming.

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Luke Newton looked smitten by his stunning girlfriend Antonia Roumelioti as the couple attended the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards on Sunday.

The Bridgerton icon, 32, packed on the PDA with the gorgeous model, 24, making a loving public appearance just two days after going Instagram official reported The Mail.

Luke, who plays Colin Bridgerton on the show, opted for a classic black suit and an unbuttoned matching shirt.

Antonia shimmered beside him in a sculpted mono-shoulder purple long length gown. 

The Netflix icon appeared in very happy spirits as he was snapped and spoke to TV fans on his way inside the event.

Much like her famous boyfriend, Antonia is also in the entertainment industry.

The talented star is in fact a dancer, who has worked on some top TV shows, she has performed on both Dancing on Ice and Greece’s Got Talent.

Antonia is also an Influencer and boasts nearly 16K followers and she was first linked to Luke last year.

However, they went official with their romance when they turned up to the London premiere of Bridgerton season 3 holding hands.

During tonight’s awards ceremony, the Bafta reality prize went to Channel 4‘s The Jury: Murder Trial, beating the hit BBC psychological series The Traitors.

Ariyon Bakare has won the best supporting actor gong at the Bafta TV Awards for his role playing Morris De La Roux in BBC drama Mr Loverman.

The BBC also won the sport award for its coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics and an award in the live coverage category for Glastonbury Festival.

Best specialist factual went to BBC Two‘s Atomic People, which heard from those who witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The female performance in a comedy Bafta has been snapped up by Welsh comedian Ruth Jones for BBC sitcom Gavin And Stacey: The Finale.

Bafta TV 2025 Winners List

Here’s everyone who has taken home an award at tonight’s ceremony

Drama Series: Blue Lights

Leading Actor: Lennie James, Mr Loverman

Leading Actress: Marisa Abela, Industry

Entertainment: Would I Lie To You?

Entertainment Performance: Joe Lycett – Late Night Lycett

Factual Series: To Catch a Copper 

Factual Entertainment: Rob & Rylan’s Grand Tour

International: Shogun

Supporting Actor: Ariyon Bakare, Mr Loverman 

Supporting Actress: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer 

Limited Drama: Mr Bates Vs The Post Office 

Male Performance in a Comedy: Danny Dyer, Mr Bigstuff 

Female Performance in a Comedy: Ruth Jones, Gavin and Stacey

Fellowship: Kirsty Wark

News Coverage: BBC Breakfast: Post Office Special

Reality: The Jury: Murder Trial

Scripted Comedy: Alma’s Not Normal 

Short Form: Quiet Life 

Single Documentary: Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods

Special Award: ITV – Mr Bates Vs The Post Office

Soap: EastEnders

Live Event Coverage: Glastonbury 2024

Specialist Factual: Atomic People 

Sports Coverage: Paris 2024 Olympics, BBC One

Children’s Non-Scripted: Disability and Me (FYI Investigates) 

Children’s Scripted: Cbeebies As You Like It At Shakespeare’s Globe 

Current Affairs: State of Rage

Daytime: Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment: Strictly Come Dancing – Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell dance to You’ll Never Walk Alone

“I’m not going to lie this is immense,” she said. “The person I would like to thank most his my dear, dear talented friend James Corden.”

While EastEnders won the TV BAFTA for best soap after their rival soap Emmerdale was forced to withdraw from the nominations.

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