Former Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley looked the epitome of elegance at Britain's most anticipated TV awards. Catherine, who played Eva Price in the ITV soap, looked a world away from the famous cobbles as she walked the red carpet at the 2023 British Academy Television Awards.
The actress, from Walkden, stunned at the Royal Festival Hall in London in a gorgeous blue floor-length gown with full skirt. Catherine, 39, wore her brunette tresses pulled back and she accessorised with delicate earrings to match her princess-style dress.
The mother-of-two added a small white clutch bag to complete the look. She completed the look with a nude lip, fluttery eyelashes and perfectly-groomed brows.
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The awards look at some of the most-loved shows to have appeared on our small screen. This year is the 69th edition of the annual awards, screened on BBC One at 7pm.
Nominees include fellow former Corrie star Sarah Lancashire, from Oldham, for Leading Actress in the Sky Atlantic show Julia about the life of American television chef Julia Child, who pioneered the cooking-show genre. And Maxine Peake, 48, from Westhoughton, is nominated for her portrayal of Anne Williams and her fight for the truth about her son's death in the 1989 the Hillsborough disaster in ITV's Anne.
Loose Women star Frankie Bridge, 34, also turned heads at the awards in a black high-neck cutaway detail dress, while Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly, 54, was going for gold in a shimmering halter neck dress. Tess is already looking ahead to the next series of the BBC One dance show, which starts in the autumn, as she told fans on her Instagram: "Found these pics from last years Strictly fitting! only 4 months to go… (not that I’m counting)."
Her co-host Claudia Winkleman, 51, gave a nod to her hit BBC gameshow The Traitors by rocking the red carpet in a black jacket with a 'Faithful' slogan. The gripping reality programme is up for Reality and Constructed Factual and Claudia is up for Best Entertainment Performance.
And, looking a far cry from the I'm a Celebrity jungle, Georgia 'Toff' Toffolo posed for the cameras in a romantic red dress with white lace detail and red rose detail. The awards will be hosted by comedy duo Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranaganathan.
Corrie fans have been left disappointed this year that the Salford-based soap has missed out on a nomination this year. Last year Corrie paid a special tribute as the world's longest-running soap picked up a BAFTA TV award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama.
The long-running soap fought off competition from Casualty, Emmerdale and Holby City for the gong and Sally Dynevor, who plays the show's Sally Metcalfe, dedicated the win to Sophie Lancaster and her mother Sylvia, who died in April last year. Sylvia founded the Sophie Lancaster Foundation in memory of her daughter, who was kicked to death in 2007 because she was dressed as a goth.
The soap had the help and support of Sylvia when they portrayed a shocking hate crime on-screen in 2021 with goth Nina Lucas and boyfriend Seb Franklin, played by Mollie Gallagher and Harry Visinoni. The heartbreaking scenes saw the pair set upon and attacked before Seb died from his injuries in hospital.
On stage after accepting the award Sally said: "We weren’t expecting this tonight, we really weren’t, so thank you so much Bafta for this award. Working on this show is just a privilege – and the drama and the comedy go so well on Corrie.
"And one of the most important stories we have told this year was the hate crime story. So we would like to dedicate this to Sophie Lancaster and her mother Sylvia Lancaster."
Here's a full list of the nominations for the Baftas:
Leading actress
Billie Piper, I Hate Suzie Too - Sky Atlantic
Imelda Staunton, The Crown - Netflix
Kate Winslet, I Am Ruth - Channel 4
Maxine Peake, Anne - ITV1
Sarah Lancashire, Julia - Sky Atlantic
Vicky McClure, Without Sin - ITVX
Leading actor
Ben Whishaw, This Is Going To Hurt - BBC One
Chaske Spencer, The English - BBC Two
Cillian Murphy, Peaky Blinders - BBC One
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses - Apple TV+
Martin Freeman, The Responder - BBC One
Taron Egerton, Black Bird - Apple TV+
Supporting actress
Adelayo Adedayo, The Responder - BBC One
Anne-Marie Duff, Bad Sisters - Apple TV+
Fiona Shaw, Andor - Disney+
Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy - Netflix
Lesley Manville, Sherwood - BBC One
Saffron Hocking, Top Boy - Netflix
Supporting actor
Adeel Akhtar, Sherwood - BBC One
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses - Apple TV+
Josh Finan, The Responder - BBC One
Salim Daw, The Crown - Netflix
Samuel Bottomley, Somewhere Boy - Channel 4
Will Sharpe, The White Lotus - Sky Atlantic
Entertainment performance
Big Zuu, Big Zuu's Big Eats - Dave
Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors - BBC One
Lee Mack, The 1% Club - ITV1
Mo Gilligan, The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan - Channel 4
Rosie Jones, Rosie Jones' Trip Hazard - Channel 4
Sue Perkins, Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal - Netflix
Male performance in a comedy programme
Daniel Radcliffe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - The Roku Channel
Jon Pointing, Big Boys - Channel 4
Joseph Gilgun, Brassic - Sky Max
Lenny Rush, Am I Being Unreasonable? - BBC One
Matt Berry, What We Do In The Shadows - Disney+
Stephen Merchant, The Outlaws - BBC One
Female performance in a comedy programme
Daisy May Cooper, Am I Being Unreasonable? - BBC One
Diane Morgan, Cunk On Earth - BBC Two
Lucy Beaumont, Meet The Richardsons - Dave
Natasia Demetriou, Ellie & Natasia - BBC Three
Siobhán Mcsweeney, Derry Girls - Channel 4
Taj Atwal, Hullraisers - Channel 4
Drama series
Bad Sisters - Apple TV+
The Responder - BBC One
Sherwood - BBC One
Somewhere Boy - Channel 4
Single drama
I Am Ruth - Channel 4
The House - Netflix
Life and Death in the Warehouse - BBC Three
Mini-series
A Spy Among Friends - ITVX
Mood - BBC Three
The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe - ITV1
This Is Going To Hurt - BBC One
Soap and continuing drama
Casualty - BBC One
EastEnders - BBC One
Emmerdale - ITV1
International
The Bear - Disney+
Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story - Netflix
Wednesday - Netflix
Oussekine - Disney+
Pachinko - Apple TV+
The White Lotus - Sky Atlantic
Entertainment programme
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - ITV1
Later... With Jools Holland: Jools' 30th Birthday Bash - BBC Two
The Masked Singer - ITV1
Strictly Come Dancing - BBC One
Comedy entertainment programme
Friday Night Live - Channel 4
The Graham Norton Show - BBC One
Taskmaster - Channel 4
Would I Lie To You? - BBC One
Scripted comedy
Am I Being Unreasonable? - BBC One
Big Boys - Channel 4
Derry Girls - Channel 4
Ghosts - BBC One
Live event
Concert For Ukraine - ITV1
Platinum Jubilee: Party At The Palace - BBC One
The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II - BBC One
Features
Big Zuu's Big Eats - Dave
Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas - Channel 4
The Martin Lewis Money Show Live - ITV1
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan - BBC Two
Daytime
The Chase - ITV1
The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit - BBC One
Scam Interceptors - BBC One
Current affairs
Afghanistan: No Country For Women (Exposure) - ITV1
Children of the Taliban - Channel 4
The Crossing (Exposure) - ITV1
Mariupol: The People's Story (Panorama) - BBC One
Single documentary
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes - Sky Documentaries
Escape From Kabul Airport - BBC Two
Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story - BBC Two
The Real Mo Farah - BBC One
Factual series
Jeremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime - Channel 4
Libby, Are You Home Yet? - Sky Crime
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi - Netflix
Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing - ITV1
Reality and constructed factual
Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams - BBC One
RuPaul's Drag Race UK - BBC Three
The Traitors - BBC One
We Are Black and British - BBC Two
Specialist factual
Aids: The Unheard Tapes - BBC Two
The Green Planet - BBC One
How To Survive a Dictator With Munya Chawawa - Channel 4
Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone - BBC iPlayer
News coverage
BBC News at Ten: Russia Invades Ukraine - BBC One
Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv - Channel 4
Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview - ITV1
Sport
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games - BBC One
Uefa Women's Euro 2022 - BBC One
Wimbledon 2022 - BBC One
Short-form programme
Always, Asifa - Together TV
Biscuitland - All 4
How To Be a Person - E4
Kingpin Cribs - Channel 4
Writer: Comedy
Jack Rooke, Big Boys - Channel 4
Lisa McGee, Derry Girls - Channel 4
Nancy Harris, The Dry - Britbox
Sharon Horgan/Barunka O'Shaughnessy/Helen Serafinowicz/Holly Walsh, Motherland - BBC One
Writer: Drama
Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt - BBC One
Alice Oseman, Heartstopper - Netflix
Pete Jackson, Somewhere Boy - Channel 4
Tony Schumacher, The Responder - BBC One
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