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Gemma Jones

The Big Quiz winners crowned as Coronation Street and Emmerdale stars face off

Stephen Mulhern hosted the annual epic quiz show between ITV’s two biggest soaps tonight.

Coronation Street and Emmerdale stars went head-to-head in a battle to find out who knew the most about their show, led by captains Jack P Shepherd who plays Corrie's David Platt and Mark Charnock who plays Emmerdale's Marlon.

Jack and Mark have been team captains on The Big Quiz for several years now.

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Joining Jack were more of the cobbles cast Tanisha Gorey, who plays Asha Alahan, and Jane Danson, who plays Leanne Battersby.

Teaming up with Mark were the farm’s finest Emile John, who plays Ethan Anderson, and Sally Dexter, who plays Faith Dingle.

The Big Quiz first premiered in 2011 with a competition between Emmerdale and Coronation Street.

Due to its success ITV have had special episodes which have featured the casts of shows including TOWIE and Benidorm.

Then Emmerdale and Corrie stars returned for a rematch in 2016 and have continued to face-off each Christmas since.

With Emmerdale winning last year's quiz, which soap would come out victorious this year?

Fans of the soaps were excited for the Big Quiz as they took to Twitter to express their excitement.

Shona said: "Me watching next to nothing for Corrie and Emmerdale this year but still being a dedicated watcher of the big soap quiz."

Declan said: "Great episode of #Corrie Vs #Emmerdale I love the big soap quiz."

Anne said: "Looking forward to this. Will #Corrie win tonight?"

Lyndsey said: "#TheBigSoapQuiz wonder how many questions I can get right. #Corrie vs #Emmerdale."

The show featured multiple rounds, where contestants were shown clips from both soaps from years ago and more recent and the soap stars had to correctly answer questions based on the snippets of video.

At one point the two teams were head-to-head as it seemed they were equally well clued up on their soap knowledge with equal scores.

But in the final round, where the team captains had to describe parts of their soap and have their teammates guess it correctly, Coronation Street leapt into the lead.

They finished on 22 points whereas Emmerdale wasn't far behind with 20 points.

Coronation Street were crowned this year's Big Quiz winners as Emmerdale's Twitter account posted: "Well played @itvcorrie we'll get you next year!"

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