''All About Soap'' was a fortnightly UK

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founded in October 1999. It was released on Tuesdays. Storylines of the shows it covers are from soap operas shown in the United Kingdom and from

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, including ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Emmerdale'', ''

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'', '' Hollyoaks'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

History and profile

The magazine launched in 1999 as a sister magazine to ''

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'' and as a rival to '' Soaplife'' which had taken off just months earlier, the same year. Out of the three leading soap magazines, it is the only one to have featured a celebrity column written by a soap star. Emmerdale's Lucy Pargeter (who plays Chas Dingle), Verity Rushworth ( Donna Windsor) and

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( Paul Lambert) have all written the celebrity column. The magazine also launched the All About Soap Bubble Awards. The magazine had a circulation of 68,487 copies in June 2013. Its circulation was 64,376 copies in February 2014. The magazine's circulation was 34,678 copies in the six months from June to December 2015.Full 2015 UK magazines ABC circulation breakdown: 60 out of 442 titles grow sales
/ref> After seventeen years, the magazine ceased publication in December 2016.

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