All About Soap
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All About Soap is a fortnightly UK
magazine
, released on Tuesday. Storylines of the shows it covers are from soap opera
s shown in the United Kingdom
and from Australia
.
Popular soaps featured are EastEnders
, Coronation Street
, Emmerdale
, Hollyoaks
, Neighbours
and Home and Away
.
The magazine launched in 1999 as a sister magazine to Inside Soap
and as a rival to Soaplife
which had taken off just months earlier, the same year.
Out of the three leading soap magazines, it is the only one to have featured a celebrity column written by a soap star. Emmerdale
's Lucy Pargeter
(who plays Chas Dingle
), Verity Rushworth
(Donna Windsor) and Matthew Bose (Paul Lambert
) have all written the celebrity column.
The magazine also launched the All About Soap Bubble Awards.
Its circulation is currently at 113,436, making it the second best-selling soap magazine in the country, and the highest selling fortnightly ahead of Soaplife.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
, released on Tuesday. Storylines of the shows it covers are from soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
s shown in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and from Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Popular soaps featured are EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
, Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
, Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
, Neighbours
Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...
and Home and Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
.
The magazine launched in 1999 as a sister magazine to Inside Soap
Inside Soap
Inside Soap is a weekly UK magazine, released every Tuesday. It covers current and future storylines in soap operas shown in the United Kingdom....
and as a rival to Soaplife
Soaplife
Soaplife is a fortnightly UK magazine, released on Tuesday. Storylines of the shows it covers are from soap operas shown in the United Kingdom and from Australia....
which had taken off just months earlier, the same year.
Out of the three leading soap magazines, it is the only one to have featured a celebrity column written by a soap star. Emmerdale
Emmerdale
Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
's Lucy Pargeter
Lucy Pargeter
Lucy Kate Pargeter is an English actress. She is best known for playing Helen Raven in Crossroads and Chastity Dingle in Emmerdale.-Early years:Lucy trained at the Central Junior Television Workshop...
(who plays Chas Dingle
Chas Dingle
Chastity "Chas" Dingle is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale, played by Lucy Pargeter.-Storylines:...
), Verity Rushworth
Verity Rushworth
Verity Rushworth is an English actress who is best known for her role as Donna Windsor-Dingle in the ITV1 soap Emmerdale, having taken over the role from Sophie Jeffery in 1998.- Life and career :...
(Donna Windsor) and Matthew Bose (Paul Lambert
Paul Lambert (Emmerdale)
Paul Lambert is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Mathew Bose. Paul appeared between 2004 and 2009. He arrives as the son of existing characters Val Lambert and Rodney Blackstock and in 2008 Paul, who is openly gay, enters into a civil partnership with Jonny...
) have all written the celebrity column.
The magazine also launched the All About Soap Bubble Awards.
Its circulation is currently at 113,436, making it the second best-selling soap magazine in the country, and the highest selling fortnightly ahead of Soaplife.