SOAPSTAR SUPERSTAR

'''Soapstar Superstar''' was a reality singing competition which first aired on British television station ITV in 2006. In the competition, ten soap opera actors perform in front of a celebrity panel, which included Cilla Black, Billy Sammeth and Chris Cowey. The contestants are judged on their singing ability, in a format similar to ''Pop Idol'' and ''The X Factor''. However in this show, the audience decided which song contestants would sing in the next round. The two with the fewest votes were then put up for the public vote, and the one with the fewest votes from that round was eliminated from the competition. However, the eliminated contestant did get the honour of being part of the judging panel for that show and they got to save one contestant and decide which song they got to sing. Series one was presented by Fern Britton and Ben Shephard, with the ITV2 coverage presented by Jayne Middlemiss and Duncan James. The Voice Over was provided by Peter Dickson
The second season began on Friday 5 January 2007. Zoë Ball became the new host on ITV, with the ITV2 show being fronted by Mark Durden-Smith, Sheree Murphy and Rob Deering. Billy Sammeth and Chris Cowey returned as judges. However, Martine McCutcheon and Michael Ball replaced Cilla Black as judges. David Gest was also a guest judge for one episode. This was due to Michael Ball coaching the stars on how to sing songs from musicals. The Vocal Academy based in Manchester supplied the vocal coaching for the stars. The second season coaches were Joe, Jerone & Mandy.
The Show will not return for series 3 as the judges have had enough of the show and think Dancing On Ice has more viewers and there will be less people watching!

Contents

Series 1

Series 2

Trivia

Axed

International versions

External links

Series 1

The actors who took part were:

Place	Actor	Character	Soap
1st	Richard Fleeshman	Craig Harris	''Coronation Street''
2nd	Andy Whyment	Kirk Sutherland	''Coronation Street''
3rd	Lucy Pargeter	Chastity Dingle	''Emmerdale''
4th	Roxanne Pallett	Jo Stiles	''Emmerdale''
5th	Lee Otway	David "Bombhead" Burke	''Hollyoaks''
6th	Wendi Peters	Cilla Battersby-Brown	''Coronation Street''
7th	Shobna Gulati	Sunita Alahan	''Coronation Street''
8th	Nicholas Bailey	Anthony Trueman	''EastEnders''
9th	Michael Greco	Beppe di Marco	''EastEnders''
10th	Sammy Winward	Katie Sugden	''Emmerdale''

Series 2

The actors who took part were:

Place	Actor	Character	Soap
1st	Antony Cotton	Sean Tully	''Coronation Street''
2nd	Hayley Tamaddon	Delilah Dingle	''Emmerdale''
3rd	Mark Furze	Ric Dalby	''Home & Away''
4th	Tupele Dorgu	Kelly Crabtree	''Coronation Street''
5th	Gemma Atkinson	Lisa Hunter	''
6th	Alan Fletcher	Karl Kennedy	''Neighbours''
7th	Leon Lopez		''Hollyoaks: In the City''
8th	Verity Rushworth	Donna Windsor-Dingle	''Emmerdale''
9th	Matthew Wolfenden	David Metcalfe	''Emmerdale''
10th	Jane Danson	Leanne Battersby	''Coronation Street''
11th	Elaine Lordan	Lynne Hobbs	''EastEnders''

Note : Leon Lopez was a replacement for Ben Freeman, who was banned by ITV because he'd been suspended from ''Emmerdale'' as he had a court case abroad, and so he was not in the country.

Trivia

★ Each year the producers also sign up back up soap stars to step in if any of the main soap stars have to pull out for any reason. These celebs have to prepare in the same way that the main ones do until the beginning of the competition. In the run-up to series 2, the back up celebs were ''Hollyoaks: In the City's'' Leon Lopez, ''Hollyoaks's'' Kevin Sacre and ''EastEnders' Carly Hillman with only Lopez being needed.

Axed

On May 25, 2007, ITV confirmed that the show would not be returning for a third series in 2008, citing that it had reached "natural conclusion".^[1]

International versions

The Polish edition of ''Soapstar Superstar'' (in Poland ''Jak Oni Śpiewają'' (How They Sing)) was shown from 3 March until 2 June 2007. It was won by Agnieszka Włodarczyk (Weronika Potoczny from "The Presbytery", in Poland "Plebania").

External links

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