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Michelle Keegan is tipped to win her sixth Sexiest Female award at the British Soap Awards.

The ‘Coronation Street’ beauty may be bowing out of the ITV soap later this year but she looks set to walk away with a record-setting sixth win in the sexiest category at the annual TV awards ceremony in May.

Michelle is nominated for the gong alongside ‘Corrie’ co-star Georgia May Foote, ‘EastEnders’ star Jacqueline Jossa and ‘Hollyoaks’ actress Jorgie Porter.

‘EastEnders’ newcomer Danny Dyer leads the race to be crowned Sexiest Male along with ‘Hollyoaks’ heartthrob Ashley Taylor Dawson and ‘Corrie’ actor Marc Baylis.

Julie Hesmondhalgh is heavily tipped to be crowned Best Actress at the awards ceremony after exiting ‘Corrie’ in January in a heart-wrenching storyline which saw her character, Hayley Cropper, take her own life after suffering from cancer.

‘EastEnders’ returnee Lacey Turner is also in the Best Actress mix along with ‘Emmerdale’ stars Lucy Pargeter and Charley Webb.

The British Soap Awards has unveiled its long list of nominees for categories voted by the public, with first round voting now under way. The voting will end on April 22, with the short list then being unveiled.



The British Soap Awards 2014 long list:



Best British Soap

‘Coronation Street’

‘Doctors’

‘EastEnders’

‘Emmerdale’

‘Hollyoaks’



Best Actor

David Neilson (Roy Cropper, ‘Coronation Street’)

Ben Price (Nick Tilsley, ‘Coronation Street’)

Chris Gascoyne (Peter Barlow, ‘Coronation Street’)

Ian Kelsey (Howard Bellamy, ‘Doctors’)

Ian Midlane (Al Haskey, ‘Doctors’)

Owen Brenman (Heston Carter, ‘Doctors’)

Nitin Ganatra (Masood Ahmed, ‘EastEnders’)

Adam Woodyatt (Ian Beale, ‘EastEnders’)

Danny Dyer (Mick Carter, ‘EastEnders’)

Jeff Hordley (Cain Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)

Dominic Power (Cameron Murray, ‘Emmerdale’)

Jason Merrells (Declan Macey, ‘Emmerdale’)

Jeremy Sheffield (Patrick Blake, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Kieron Richardson (Ste Hay, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Nick Pickard (Tony Hutchinson, ‘Hollyoaks’)



Best Actress

Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley Cropper, ‘Coronation Street’)

Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre, ‘Coronation Street’)

Alison King (Carla Barlow, ‘Coronation Street’)

Jan Pearson (Karen Hollins, ‘Doctors’)

Dido Miles (Emma Reid, ‘Doctors’)

Lorna Laidlaw (Mrs Tembe, ‘Doctors’)

Lacey Turner (Stacey Branning, ‘EastEnders’)

Diane Parish (Denise Fox, ‘EastEnders’)

Lindsey Coulson (Carol Jackson, ‘EastEnders’)

Charley Webb (Debbie Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)

Lucy Pargeter (Chas Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)

Charlie Hardwick (Val Pollard, ‘Emmerdale’)

Jessica Fox (Nancy Osborne, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Stephanie Davis (Sinead Roscoe, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Nikki Sanderson (Maxine Minniver, ‘Hollyoaks’)



Sexiest Male

Marc Baylis (Rob Donovan, ‘Coronation Street’)

Chris Gascoyne (Peter Barlow, ‘Coronation Street’)

Ryan Thomas (Jason Grimshaw, ‘Coronation Street’)

Matthew Chambers (Daniel Granger, ‘Doctors’)

Simon Rivers (Kevin Tyler, ‘Doctors’)

Nathan Wright (Chris Reid, ‘Doctors’)

Danny Dyer (Mick Carter, ‘EastEnders’)

Khali Best (Dexter Hartman, ‘EastEnders’)

Ben Hardy (Peter Beale, ‘EastEnders’)

Anthony Quinlan (Pete Barton, ‘Emmerdale’)

Matthew Wolfenden (David Metcalfe, ‘Emmerdale’)

Michael Parr (Ross Barton, ‘Emmerdale’)

Danny Mac (Dodger Savage, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Ayden Callaghan (Joe Roscoe, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Ashley Taylor Dawson (Darren Osborne, ‘Hollyoaks’)



Sexiest Female

Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre, ‘Coronation Street’)

Catherine Tyldesley (Eva Price, ‘Coronation Street’)

Georgia May Foote (Katy Armstrong, ‘Coronation Street’)

Dido Miles (Emma Reid, ‘Doctors’)

Elisabeth Dermot Walsh (Zara Carmichael, ‘Doctors’)

Danielle Henry (Mandy Marquez, ‘Doctors’)

Jacqueline Jossa (Lauren Branning, ‘EastEnders’)

Danielle Harold (Lola Pearce, ‘EastEnders’)

Shona McGarty (Whitney Dean, ‘EastEnders’)

Fiona Wade (Priya Sharma, ‘Emmerdale’)

Natalie Anderson (Alicia Metcalfe, ‘Emmerdale’)

Charley Webb (Debbie Dingle, ‘Emmerdale’)

Jorgie Porter (Theresa McQueen, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Jennifer Metcalfe (Mercedes Browning, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Gemma Merna (Carmel Valentine, ‘Hollyoaks’)



Villain of the Year

Chris Gascoyne (Peter Barlow, ‘Coronation Street’)

Connor McIntyre (Pat Phelan, ‘Coronation Street’)

Jack P Shepherd (David Platt, ‘Coronation Street’)

Elisabeth Dermot Walsh (Zara Carmichael, ‘Doctors’)

Neil Haigh (Gus Harper, ‘Doctors’)

Mark Cameron (Tom, ‘Doctors’)

Daniel Coonan (Carl White, ‘EastEnders’)

Cornell S John (Sam James, ‘EastEnders’)

Charlie Brooks (Janine Butcher, ‘EastEnders’)

Michael Parr (Ross Barton, ‘Emmerdale’)

Emma Atkins (Charity Sharma, ‘Emmerdale’)

Dominic Power (Cameron Murray, ‘Emmerdale’)

Greg Wood (Trevor Royle, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Jesse Birdsall (Fraser Black, ‘Hollyoaks’)

Anna Passey (Sienna Blake, ‘Hollyoaks’)

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