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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Feb 16, 2005—In the issue on stands February 15 (Cover Date: February 22), Soap Opera Digest Magazine, America’s favorite soap magazine for almost 30 years, announces the winners of the 19th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards.

The Soap Opera Digest Awards are the only major soap awards where fans alone determine the winners. The editors selected nominees in 16 categories: Outstanding Lead actor/ actress, Outstanding Supporting Actor/ Actress, Outstanding Younger Lead Actor /Actress, Outstanding Male/ Female Newcomer, Favorite Couple, Favorite Villainess/ Villain, Favorite Return, Favorite New Couple, Favorite Triangle, Favorite Teen and Favorite Show

For the 10th time, fans chose ABC’s General Hospital as their Favorite Show.

Maurice Benard and Tamara Braun (ABC’s General Hospital) swept the Outstanding Lead Actor/ Actress category while Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn (NBC’s Days of Our Lives) nabbed the Favorite Couple category. The Outstanding Supporting category was split between Rick Hearst (ABC’s General Hospital) and Alison Sweeney (NBC’s Days of Our Lives). Ms. Sweeney was the only actor to win in two categories (Supporting Actress and Favorite New Couple). The Outstanding Younger Lead category went to ABC-TV (General Hospital’s Scott Clifton) and (All My Children’s Eden Riegel).

Other Winners Include:
Outstanding Male Newcomer
Justin BrueningA
All My Children

Outstanding Female Newcomer
Adrianne Leon
General Hospital

Outstanding Villain
Ted King
General Hospital

Outstanding Villainess
Jane Elliott
General Hospital

Favorite Return
Judi Evans
Days of Our Lives

Favorite New Couple
“Sami & Lucas”
Days of Our Lives

Favorite Teen
Kristen Alderson
One Life To Live

Favorite Triangle
“Natalie/John/ Evangeline
One Life To Live

Published continuously since 1975, Soap Opera Digest is the #1 weekly source of celebrity news and program information for all 42.5 hours of original weekly television programming. Read by over 1 million fans each week, The Soap Opera Digest Awards are exclusive to the magazine as are the local Mall tours that travel the country annually. Its editors regularly contribute their expertise to newspapers, television shows, radio broadcasts and other general interest magazines.

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