This should be a good cure for your post-Christmas doldrums. Emmett J. Scanlan has followed in the footsteps of Sacha Harding and stripped down naked for Gay Times magazine.

The actor, who plays bad boy Brendan Brady on British soap opera Hollyoaks, also revealed that his openly gay costar Kieron Richardson enjoys his facial hair more than he’d like to admit: “He keeps saying in interviews that it’s terrible to kiss the stache or whatever and that it hurts and stuff like that and then he’ll come over and whisper ‘I have to say something, I can’t tell them that it’s good can I?’ I’ll tell you something right now, he got excited one time…”

Forget X-Factor, Strictly and everything else: last week over 360 fans voted for their favourite Stendan kiss and here are the results…*dramatic pause*

Winner of the fan favourite kiss was:

“That was goodbye,” kiss in the SU bar stairwell. Hearts were broken, tears were shared, Mitzeee’s eyes boggled and 23.72% of you voted for it as a favourite kiss!

Second place:

Kiss against the wall in the episode where Brendan says “I love you,” one of the most recent kisses and the second most popular with 22.19% of the vote. A love declaration, Ste leading the kiss and throwing Brendan against the wall - what’s not to love?!

Third place:

Red shirt cellar kiss came third in the vote, for Brendan’s technique of prowling like a predator, catching Ste by surprise and being the master of seduction. We like and it received 7.84% of the vote.

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There are times when it feels necessary to be shallow in life: Brendan blackhole and imprisonment? Stendan drought? Now is one of those times when we must revel in the shallow things in life. It was suggested to me to run a fan favourite kiss vote and being someone who just can’t say no to anything Stendan-shaped I had to comply. So here it is.

To make it slightly easier, you can pick three favourites. If you select more than three an error message will come up! (Yes I’m a hard task master!) Results posted in Sunday’s news summary. Happy voting.

No your vote won’t change the world but got a favourite kiss?! VOTE!