It’s another big win for Neighbours fans. <\/p>
Our epic Soap Champion<\/a> tournament is being dominated by the ever-dedicated Neighbours<\/a> fans so far this week, as the results of the Wildcard<\/a> decider once again prove their unwavering support for their telly favourites.<\/p>\n The seven unlucky losers from Round 2<\/a>\u2018s head-to-heads were entered into the Wildcard poll today \u2013 their last chance to bag a spot in tomorrow\u2019s all-important Quarter-Finals.<\/p>\n Marilyn Chambers, Lola Pearce, Mackenzie Hargreaves, Verity Hutchinson, Kelly Neelan, Felicity Newman and Imran Habeeb were all vying for that one final Quarter-Final place, but only one could emerge victorious.<\/p>\n While the Home and Away<\/a> crowd put on an admirable show of support for Felicity, it was the Ramsay Street brigade who brought it home for Mackenzie in the end.<\/p>\n She nabbed an impressive 43 per cent of the overall votes, while Felicity came in second with 25 per cent.<\/p>\n EastEnders<\/a>\u2018 Lola Pearce was close behind on 24 per cent, while Marilyn Chambers (also of Home and Away) finished on five per cent.<\/p>\n Corrie<\/a>\u2018s Kelly Neelan took just two per cent, Hollyoaks<\/a>\u2018s Verity Hutchinson one per cent and Imran Habeeb (another Corrie character) less than one per cent, with just 14 votes total.<\/p>\n That means your eight quarter-finalists still in the running for the title are:<\/p>\n But the fight to be crowned Soap Champion is far from over.<\/p>\n Neighbours, Home and Away, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks fans should keep a sharp eye on RadioTimes.com<\/a> and our Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> pages tomorrow as we launch the Quarter-Finals of the tournament. Get involved on social media using the hashtag #TVChampion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The remaining eight soap characters in the running to walk away with the title will be split into head-to-heads as they battle for a place in Friday\u2019s Semi-Finals.<\/p>\n The match-ups look like this:<\/p>\n Quarter-Final 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Tane Parata vs Ben Mitchell<\/p>\n Quarter-Final 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Misbah Maalik vs Mike Young<\/p>\n Quarter-Final 3:\u00a0<\/strong>Meena Jutla vs Toadie Rebecchi<\/p>\n Quarter-Final 4:\u00a0<\/strong>Susan Kennedy vs Mackenzie Hargreaves<\/p>\n Voting opens at 10:30am tomorrow and closes at 5pm, so don\u2019t forget to use your unlimited votes to back your favourite all the way to the last second.<\/p> It\u2019s a virtual tug-of-war where the fans have all the power! Fandom against fandom, soap against soap.<\/p>\n The Grand Final of Soap Champion isn\u2019t far off now, with the final two contenders going toe-to-toe in a showdown starting Monday 27th March at 10:30am and closing 24 hours later.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right: you have an extended amount of time to vote for the winner of Soap Champion with voting open for a full day and closing 10:30am on Tuesday 28th March.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for something to watch, check out our <\/strong>TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 12 issues for only \u00a31 with delivery to your home \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>subscribe now<\/strong><\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n It’s another big win for Neighbours fans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31395,"template":"","categories":[1,2,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/soap-champion-wildcard-confirmed-as-neighbours-beats-home-and-away.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It's another big win for Neighbours fans.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/31394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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