Corrie's Craig is about to get the girl (VIDEO)

Coronation Street actor Craig Gazey won best comedy performance at the British Soap Awards and revealed he's about to get a love interest - Tina McIntyre. The actor plays loveable young buffoon Graeme Proctor and won the National TV Award for best newcomer in January. But he excitedly revealed that he's about to get a girlfriend, Tina, played by the soap awards' sexiest female winner Michelle Keegan. Earlier, on the red carpet he told whatsontv.co.uk: "Graeme finds romance after two long years of trying and he does rather well for himself. She's in FHM's top 30... "It's Michelle Keegan, so he does really well. It's a delicate love story. He's really looking after her, with no intentions but her welfare. From there something blossoms..." Watch Craig Gazey at the British Soap Awards

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.