Fans Have Spoken & Picked Winners for Our 14th Annual Sudzies Viewers’ Choice Awards

Thursday, June 25th, 2020

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Favorite actors have been picked by soap opera fans for 2019 storylines.

Once again, fans have come together to vote for their favorite soap operas and actors in our 14th Annual Sudzies Awards. The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital and Young and the Restless winners were picked by our readers in major categories from the 2020 Daytime Emmy nominations, as well as some extras such as most annoying and most beloved character, who fans would like to see return and more… Voting began on Tuesday June 16 and here is a look at this year’s fan-picked winners…

Outstanding Drama

General Hospital

Outstanding Lead Actor

The Young and the Restless’ Jason Thompson (Billy)

Outstanding Lead Actress

Maura West (Ava)

Outstanding Supporting Actor

General Hospital’s James Patrick Stuart (Valentin)

Outstanding Supporting Actress

Days of our Lives’ Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie)

Outstanding Younger Performer

The Young and the Restless’ Sasha Calle (Lola)

Outstanding Guest Performer

General Hospital’s Michael Knight (Martin)
Close runner up: Days of our Lives’ Chrishell Stause (Jordan Ridgeway)

Most annoying character

Bold and the Beautiful’s Hope Logan
Days of our Lives’ Claire Brady
General Hospital’s Nelle Benson
Young and the Restless’ Lola Rosales & Phyllis Newman (tie)

Most beloved character

Bold and the Beautiful’s Douglas Forrester
Days of our Lives’ Doug Williams
General Hospital’s Sonny Corinthos
Young and the Restless’ Jack Abbott

Biggest villain/villainess

Bold and the Beautiful’s Thomas Forrester
Days of our Lives’ Kristen DiMera & Gabi DiMera (tie)
General Hospital’s Nelle Benson
Young and the Restless’ Victor Newman

Who do you want to return the most

Bold and the Beautiful’s Kimberlin Brown as Sheila Carter
Days of our Lives’ Peter Reckell as Bo Brady
General Hospital’s Billy Miller as Drew Cain
Young and the Restless’ Victoria Rowell as Drucilla Winters

Most exciting couple

Bold and the Beautiful’s Wyatt Spencer and Sally Spectra
Days of our Lives’ Ben Weston and Ciara Brady
General Hospital’s Willow Corinthos and Michael Corinthos
Young and the Restless’ Phyllis Newman and Nick Newman

Most boring couple

Bold and the Beautiful’s Hope Logan Spencer and Liam Spencer
Days of our Lives’ Chad DiMera and Abby DiMera
General Hospital’s Sam McCall and Jason Morgan
Young and the Restless’ Kyle and Lola and Kyle and Summer (very close second)

Hottest character on any soap (male and female)

Bold and the Beautiful’s Steffy Forrester and Bill Spencer
Days of our Lives’ Eli Grant (Xander very close runner up) and Ciara Brady
General Hospital’s Harrison Chase and Sasha Gilmore
Young and the Restless’ Rey Rosales and Sharon Newman

It’s been another fun year, thanks for voting in our annual Sudzies and join us Friday June 26 for all of the Daytime Emmy coverage when the show heads back to television on CBS starting at 8:00 PM.

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Fans Have Spoken & Picked Winners for Our 14th Annual Sudzies Viewers’ Choice Awards

Outstanding Drama

Outstanding Lead Actor

Outstanding Lead Actress

Outstanding Supporting Actor

Outstanding Supporting Actress

Outstanding Younger Performer

Outstanding Guest Performer

Most annoying character

Most beloved character

Biggest villain/villainess

Who do you want to return the most

Most exciting couple

Most boring couple

Hottest character on any soap (male and female)

<p>The 47th Daytime Emmy Awards will be televised on CBS on Friday June 26 at 8:00 PM. This is the first time in five years since they’ve been on TV. Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital and Young and the Restless are nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. </p>

<p>Bold and the Beautiful’s Thorsten Kaye is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor. He’s played the role of Ridge Forrester since 2012. Kaye was once Patrick Thornhart on One Life to Live, Dr. Ian Thornhart on Port Charles, and Zach Slater on All My Children.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Thaao Penghlis is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role as Andre DiMera. He’s played dual roles on the NBC soap, Andre and Tony DiMera, since 1981.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Steve Burton is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor. He plays Jason Morgan on the ABC soap and has since 1991.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Jon Lindstrom is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor for appearing as twins Dr. Kevin Collins and Ryan Chamberlain. He’s played the dual role since 1992.</p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Jason Thompson is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor. He has played Billy Abbott since 2016. Thompson was once Dr. Patrick Drake on General Hospital.</p>

<p>Bold and the Beautiful’s Katherine Kelly Lang is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress for Brooke Logan. She created the role in 1987. </p>

<p>Bold and the Beautiful’s Heather Tom is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress. She’s played Katie Logan since 2007. She used to portray Victoria Newman on Young and the Restless from 1990-2003.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Adrienne Zucker is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress for Nicole Walker. She’s appeared in the role since 1998.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Finola Hughes is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress for Anna Devane. She’s been with the ABC soap as twins Anna and Alex Devane since 1985.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Maura West is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress. She’s played Ava Jerome since 2013 and first came to Port Charles under the name Denise DeMuccio. Do you remember her as Carly Snyder on As the World Turns?</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Wally Kurth is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Justin Kiriakis. He’s played the role on the NBC soap since 1987 and also plays Ned Quartermaine on ABC’s General Hospital.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Chandler Massey is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He’s played the role of Will Horton since 2010.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Paul Telfer is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Xander Kiriakis. The actor created the role in 2015.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s James Patrick Stuart is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Valentin Cassadine. He took over the role in 2016.</p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Mark Grossman is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Adam Newman. He replaced Justin Hartley in May 2019. </p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Bryton James is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor for Devon Hamilton Winters. The actor created the role in 2004. </p>

<p>Bold and the Beautiful’s Annika Noelle is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Hope Logan. She’s the latest actress to have played the role since 2018.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Susan Seaforth Hayes is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Julie Williams. She’s been with the NBC soap opera since 1968. </p>

<p>General Hospital’s Tamara Braun is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Dr. Kim Nero. She created the role in 2017, but before that played Carly Corinthos on the ABC soap.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Rebecca Budig is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Hayden Barnes. She created the role in 2014.</p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Christel Khalil is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Lily Winters. She’s played the role since 2002 and is now recurring.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Olivia Rose Keegan is nominated for Outstanding Younger Performer for Claire Brady. She’s appeared in the role since 2015. She left the role for a while and is returning this summer.</p>

<p>Days of our Lives’ Thia Megia is nominated for Outstanding Younger Performer. She created the role of Haley Chen in 2018. The character was killed off in 2019 but as always in soaps we never say never to a return.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Katelyn MacMullen is nominated for Outstanding Younger Performer as Willow Tait. She created the ABC soap role in 2018.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Eden McCoy is nominated for Outstanding Younger Performer. She took over the role as an aged Josslyn Jacks in 2015. She’s Carly and Jax’s daughter.</p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Sasha Calle is nominated for Outstanding Younger Performer for Lola Rosales. She created the CBS soap role in 2018.</p>

<p>General Hospital’s Michael E. Knight is nominated for Outstanding Guest Performer. He created the role of Martin Gray in September 2019 as Nelle Benson’s attorney. You’ll remember Knight from All My Children as Tad Martin.</p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Elissa Kapneck is nominated for Outstanding Guest Performer. She appeared as Sasha, a mother of an abandoned baby found on the Newman Ranch, in December 2019.</p>

<p>Young and the Restless’ Jeffrey Vincent Parise is nominated for Outstanding Guest Performer. He arrived in Genoa City in November 2019 as Simon Black and confronted Chelsea about the money her dead husband Calvin owed him. Remember him from General Hospital? He used to play Carlos Rivera.</p>

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