Soap stars tune up for TV singing contest
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."
