ALL HAIL THE SOAP QUEENS

Celebrating these TV icons…

Please raise a glass of bubbly (soap pun, you guys) to the women who’ve spent their lives entertaining us from inside our TV screens. From Eastenders and Coronation Street, to our unabashed obsession with the Australian offerings, we’ve loved every minute spent watching soap operas.

This month, the iconic Pam St Clement turns 80 – and we also pay tribute to the wonderful June Brown, who we lost earlier this year – which means it’s high time we celebrated this most British of obsessions. Here, we bring you the biggest icons of the soap world, and remember the trials and tribulations that made them...