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| Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 07:54 GMT 08:54 UK EastEnders triumph at TV awards ![]() Best actress Natalie Cassidy stars in EastEnders BBC soap EastEnders swept the board with five trophies at a top TV awards ceremony on Monday. Comic Jack Dee presented the TV Quick awards ceremony, which saw EastEnders win best UK soap, best storyline, best actress, best actor and best newcomer.
EastEnders' Steve Owen, played by Martin Kemp, picked up the best soap actor award. Kemp, who is to leave EastEnders next year for a new contract with ITV, played a key role in the Who Shot Phil Mitchell? storyline this year. EastEnders fever gripped the nation earlier in the year as viewers were teased and tormented about the identity of Phil Mitchell's would-be assassin.
This is the first time Coronation Street has not won that award in the ceremony's five-year history. Natalie Cassidy - aka Sonia Jackson - won the best soap actress prize after a year in which viewers saw her become a teenage mum and give up her baby for adoption. Big Brother fought off competition from a burgeoning number of reality TV shows. The winner of the first season, Craig Phillips, was on hand to pick up the award. Bafta-winning host Graham Norton won yet another award for his Channel 4 chat show.
Other winners were The Royle Family, which won the best comedy show titled for the second year and Ant and Dec's ITV Saturday morning show SM:tv Live, which was named best children's show. BBC One's Ground Force picked up a third consecutive award as best lifestyle show. The winners were voted for by readers of TV Quick magazine and the celebrity ceremony was held in aid of the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer. | See also: Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top TV and Radio stories now: Links to more TV and Radio stories are at the foot of the page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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