Soap stars tune up for TV singing contest

Hayley Tamaddon (Delilah Dingle in Emmerdale) is excited about singing for her supper
11 April 2012
The Weekender

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for exclusive competitions, offers and theatre ticket deals

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.

Telly favourites tuned up today ahead of the start of this year's series of Soapstar Superstar.

The singing showdown, starting Friday, will include Gemma Atkinson, who plays Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks In The City, and Jane Danson - Coronation Street's Leanne Battersby.

Eleven of Britain's top telly stars will go head-to-head, live in front of a studio audience, to win the right to go through to the next night, up until the final next week.

Completing the line-up of contestants are Antony Cotton (Sean Tully, Coronation Street); Tupele Dorgu (Kelly Crabtree, Coronation Street); Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy, Neighbours); Mark Furze (Eric 'Ric' Dalby, Home and Away); Elaine Lordan (Lynne Hobbs, EastEnders); Verity Rushworth (Donna Windsor-Dingle, Emmerdale); Hayley Tamaddon (Delilah Dingle, Emmerdale); Matthew Wolfenden (David Metcalfe, Emmerdale) and Hollyoaks in the City heart-throb Leon Lopez.

Contestants will have just 24 hours, to learn their songs before singing live, then TV viewers get the chance to vote on their favourite performers, also judged by a panel of experts including Michael Ball and ex-Eastenders' songbird Martine McCutcheon.

Show presenter Zoe Ball said: "I nearly wet my pants when I was asked to host it this time.

I can't wait to get all the inside gossip at the show and see who's the prima donna, who's the saucy one, who's the trouble-causer."

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in