TV Choice Awards 2024: Happy Valley has double triumph for its final series as show's Sarah Lancashire is named Best Actress while Emmerdale bags the Best Soap gong

Happy Valley had a double win at the TV Choice Awards on Monday after its final series aired last year. Happy Valley had a double win at the TV Choice Awards on Monday after its final series aired last year, with the show winning Best Drama Series and Sarah Lancashire winning Best Actress Emmerdale's Jeff Hordley, 53, who plays Cain Dingle, scored his first TV Choice Awards as he triumphed in the Best Soap Actor category Emmerdale was named Best Soap, having last won in 2022 The TV Choice Awards 2024 celebrated another great year in TV and the glitzy ceremony saw some of Britain’s biggest celebrity names scoop the coveted trophies, as voted for by the British viewing public. Emmerdale was named Best Soap, having last won in 2022, while cast member Jeff Hordley, 53, who plays Cain Dingle, scored his first TV Choice Awards as he triumphed in the Best Soap Actor category. The Martin Lewis Money Show Live which airs on ITV1 won the Best Lifestyle Show prize, BBC One's Animal Park was named the winner of the Best Daytime Show gong, James Martin’s Saturday Morning which is broadcast on ITV won in the Best Food Show category, and Channel 5's Winter on the Farm and Springtime on the Farm won the Best Factual Show award. Dame Maureen Lipman, 77, who plays Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street, won the Best Soap Actress prize Martin Clunes, 62, won Best Actor for his part in Doc Martin This year's winners were announced at a glittering ceremony – hosted by Tom Allen, with the comedian anchoring the event for the first time Series two Paul Gorton said recreating the success of series two will be a 'big old task' as he attended the awards.