Shawn Christian leads DAYS domination of 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

The fourth time was the charm for DAYS' Shawn Christian, who won Best Hunk in the 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards, when winners were announced today.

The DAYS doctor had been nominated for Best Hunk three previous times before finally winning this year and becoming the oldest hunk ever to win the top prize. He also won for Best Butt and Best Hunk Over 40, marking the the second consecutive year that the same person has won both the regular and the Over 40 races in the same year.

The only race lost by Christian was Best Torso, where he finished second to winner Rob Wilson of AMC. Wilson also won a very competitive race for Hunkiest Newcomer. Wilson's wins were the first for AMC since 2005.

Also winning two prizes were Y&R's Marco Dapper, who won Best Pecs and Best Arms; and DAYS' Greg Vaughan, who took Best Face for a record fourth time and whose priest's collar snared him a win as Most Shamefully Clothed.

All other winners claimed a single prize, but they were almost entirely nabbed by DAYS actors. Among the show's overall 10 wins were Nathan Owens for Best Abs, Galen Gering for Best Hair (his 5th win in that category), James Scott for Best Voice (his 7th), Freddie Smith for Best Smile, and Chandler Massey for Best Eyes. Curiously, last year's Best Hunk winner, Eric Martsolf, was shut out this year. Not curiously, DAYS triumphed as Hunkiest Soap for the 8th time.

OLTL alum and two-time Best Hunk winner David A. Gregory won for Most Missed Soap Hunk.

Complete voting results can be viewed at the Soaphunks.net Award archive.

Martsolf, DAYS sweep 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

Eric Martsolf finally took top honors as the winners of the 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards were announced Sunday.

The DAYS stud, who has previous lost the awards' top contest three times, finally won the Best Hunk prize. He also won for Best Arms and Best Hunk Over 40, marking the first time the same person has won both the regular and the Over 40 races in the same year.

Martsolf re-tweeted news of his wins Sunday with his thanks.

It was effectively a sweep for DAYS, a soap that had not had as much success the past few years in these awards. With the recently-sweeping but now-cancelled OLTL out of the way, DAYS managed 12 victories in all. The series won its record-setting seventh Hunkiest Soap trophy, in the most dominant race in awards history.

The only person to win multiple awards outside of DAYS was Y&R's Marco Dapper, whose leading seven nominations going in turned into wins for Hunkiest Newcomer, Best Torso, and Best Butt.

It was a pair of victories each for the DAYS trio of Chandler Massey (Best Pecs and Best Eyes), James Scott (Best Abs and Best Voice), and Freddie Smith (Most Shamefully Clothed and Best Smile).

Other DAYS victors: Greg Vaughan for Best Face and Casey Deidrick for Best Hair.

All-time wins leader Brandon Beemer of B&B won Most Missed Soap Hunk, padding his lead with his 18th Soaphunks.net Awards win.

Complete voting results can be viewed at the Soaphunks.net Award archive.