The 2025 winners of this year's I Talk Tell Awards have been revealed.
Since launching in 2015, the I Talk Telly Awards, created by founder Elliot Gonzalez, have now seen 2.8m votes registered, celebrating programmes and talent across Comedy, Drama, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Factual and Soaps.
Entirely voted for by the public, there were big wins this year for Coronation Street, The Traitors, Gavin & Stacey and Adolescence.
Coronation Street beat off all the other soaps to win four awards, including Best Soap for the first time since 2021. Following her Best Soap Newcomer win in 2024, Vicky Myers picked up two awards this year, including Best Soap Performance and Best Soap Partnership with Alison King.
New for 2025, the nominations for Soap Icon recognised huge milestone anniversaries for Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, and Neighbours, and it was Corrie original William Roache, who claimed victory, having played Ken Barlow since the show’s first ever episode 65 years ago this month.
Other top wins, include The Traitors which walked away with two awards, including Best Reality TV Show for The Celebrity Traitors and Claudia Winkleman for Best TV Presenter, Gavin & Stacey which won both of the categories it was nominated for, Best Returning Comedy and Best Comedy Partnership for James Corden and Ruth Jones, and Adolescence which won two awards, Best New Drama and Best Breakthrough for Owen Cooper.
Elsewhere, EastEnders walked away with two awards this year, Best Soap Newcomer for Dayo Koleosho and Best Soap Villain for Max Murray.
Those holding on to their 2024 wins, included Waterloo Road which once again was voted Best Returning Drama, Strictly Come Dancing which won Best Competition Show (previously Best Talent Show), Ant & Dec who held on to their Best TV Presenting Partnership win, Gogglebox which continued to win Best Factual Entertainment, and This Morning which won Best Daytime Show for the second year in a row.
Both Lenny Rush and Suranne Jones, who last won an I Talk Telly Award in 2022, picked up another award this year for Best Comedy Performance and Best Dramatic Performance, respectively, for Am I Being Unreasonable? and Hostage.
Other wins included Amandaland for Best New Comedy, The Graham Norton Show for Best Entertainment Show, The Morning Show for Best International Series and Victoria Beckham for Best Documentary.
You can see a full list of this year's winners and watch acceptance videos from Alan Carr, Alison Hammond & Dermot O’Leary, Alison King, Ant & Dec, Graham Norton, Lenny Rush, Suranne Jones, Vicky Myers, William Roache the cast of Corrie, the Malones from Gogglebox, the Strictly judges, the cast of Waterloo Road and more at italktelly.com/awards2025.
Best New Comedy Amandaland
BBC One
Best Returning Comedy
Gavin & Stacey
BBC One
Best Comedy Performance Lenny Rush
Am I Being Unreasonable?
Best Comedy Partnership James Corden & Ruth Jones
Gavin & Stacey
Best New Drama Adolescence
Netflix
Best Returning Drama Waterloo Road
BBC One
Best International Series The Morning Show
Apple TV
Best Dramatic Performance
Suranne Jones
Hostage
Best Entertainment Show The Graham Norton Show
ITV1
Best Reality TV Show The Celebrity Traitors
BBC One
Best Competition Show Strictly Come Dancing
BBC One
Best TV Presenter Claudia Winkleman
The Traitors
Best TV Presenting Partnership Ant & Dec
I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Best Daytime Show This Morning
ITV1
Best Factual Entertainment
Gogglebox
Channel 4
Best Documentary Victoria Beckham
Netflix
Best Breakthrough Owen Cooper
Adolescence
Best Soap Coronation Street
ITV1
Best Soap Newcomer Dayo Koleosho
EastEnders
Best Soap Performance Vicky Myers
Coronation Street
Best Soap Partnership Alison King & Vicky Myers
Coronation Street
Best Soap Villain
Max Murray
EastEnders
I Talk Telly is an entertainment website delivering the latest television news, reviews and interviews and was founded by Elliot Gonzalez on 3rd November 2011.
The I Talk Telly Awards began in 2015 with the number of people voting increasing significantly year on year with 2.8m registered votes to date.
In 2020, the awards received a record high of 500,000 votes as well as mentions across ITV daytime, including Loose Women and This Morning, as well as video acceptance speeches from Ant & Dec, David Tennant and Michael Sheen, James Corden, Ricky Gervais and more with video acceptance speeches in 2021 from Ant & Dec, Joel Dommett, Rosie Jones, Russell T Davies, Stephen Merchant and more.
Eligible programmes for the 2024 awards must have aired between 1st November 2023 and 31st October 2024. With an exception for Best Breakthrough and Best Soap Newcomer, which recognise individuals who have made a significant impact in the last 18 months, between 1st May 2023 and 31st October 2024.
