By Sarah Bull
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She'll soon be bowing out of Coronation Street, after playing Sunita Alahan for nine years.
But Shobna Gulati celebrated a fitting farewell to the ITV soap on Tuesday night as she celebrated the show winning the Best Soap prize at the Royal Television Society awards.
The 46-year-old actress shone in a black sequinned minidress as she posed at the event, held at the Grovesnor House Hotel.
A fitting farewell: Shobna Gulati celebrated Coronation Street winning Best Soap at the Royal Television Society Awards in London on Tuesday night
Victory! Corrie beat BBC's EastEnders and Channel 4's Hollyoaks to win the prestigious prize
Shobna teamed her long-sleeved dress by wearing her dark hair in tousled curls, and finished off her look with opaque tights and heels.
The event saw Corrie beat rivals EastEnders and Hollyoaks to take home the prestigious award, with the deciding voters saying of the programme: 'With strong performances and a quality of writing, the stories enjoy constant injections of humour and retain a warmth which is enjoyed by all.'
The awards show recognises excellence across a range of programme making and broadcasting skills and was hosted by comedian Jo Brand.
Shining bright: Shobna looked stunning in a black sequinned minidress with opaque tights and heels for the occasion
Bowing out: Shobna has played Sunita Alahan in the ITV soap for nine years, but will be leaving later this year
Other stars to take home prizes at the prestigious event included Ant and Dec, who was presented with the Entertainment Performance award for their hosting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Celebrating their win, the hilarious duo posed up with their awards outside the hotel - pretending to bite the clear statuettes as they joked around.
Clare Balding won the Presenter award for her critically-acclaimed hosting of the London 2012 Olympics, which also won the Live Event prize.
Getting a standing ovation as she accepted her award, Clare said: 'I'm particularly proud as a sports presenter to be nominated alongside an artist and an arts broadcaster because I think it's easy to think of sports being just about sweaty jockstraps and balls.
'Sport is about so much more than that. It is art, it is history, it is science, it is finance, it is news, it is drama and above all it is entertainment . I'm bloody proud to be a sports presenter.'
They're not edible, you know: Ant and Dec pretended to nibble on their awards after winning Best Entertainment Performance
Joking around: Dec looked particularly thrilled to have won the award for the second year running with his comedy partner
The main acting prizes were snared by Accused II actors Sean Bean and Olivia Colman, who beat the competition to take home awards for the hit BBC drama.
Of Olivia's performance, awards bosses said: 'Riveting and totally convincing…. The truth in her portrayal of a woman whose son has been murdered gave the audience a horrifying glimpse of what it would be like to lose a child in such violent circumstances.'
They added of Sean's portrayal: 'The winner’s performance was fresh and intelligent with real heart, and was both accessible and totally convincing.'
Success: Sean Bean won the Best Actor prize for Accused II, while Clare Balding took home the Best Presenter prize for the London 2012 Olympics
Sean as Simon Gaskell/Tracie Tremarco in Accused II, alongside Stephen Graham as Tony
Meanwhile, Sherlock was also a big winner on the evening, beating Call The Midwife and Line Of Duty to win the Best Drama Series award.
The show also took home the Writer, Drama prize for Steven Moffat.
The Entertainment category was won by Celebrity Juice - beating off competition from Britain's Got Talent and Dynamo: Magician Impossible.
And Jessica Hynes was presented with the prestigious Comedy Performance award for her role in satirical comedy Twenty Twelve.
Dave Gordon, who bowed out as the BBC's head of major sporting events after 40 years following the Olympics, was given a lifetime achievement award.
Winners: Olivia Colman won for Accused II, while Jessica Hynes won for Twenty Twelve
Success on both sides of the pond: Lena Dunham's Girls won the prestigious International prize
RTS PROGRAMME AWARDS 2012, FULL LIST OF WINNERS
ACTOR (FEMALE) - Olivia Colman, Accused II (RSJ Films for BBC One)
ACTOR (MALE) - Sean Bean, Accused II (RSJ Films for BBC One)
ARTS - Lucian Freud: Painted Life (Blakeway for BBC Two)
CHILDREN'S DRAMA - Wolfblood (CBBC Productions for CBBC)
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME - Room On The Broom (Magic Light Pictures for BBC One)
COMEDY PERFORMANCE - Jessica Hynes, Twenty Twelve (Series 2, BBC Productions for BBC Two)
DAYTIME PROGRAMME - Remembrance Week (Fever Media for BBC One)
DOCUMENTARY SERIES - Protecting Our C hildren (BBC Productions for BBC Two)
DRAMA SERIAL - Good Cop (BBC Productions for BBC One)
DRAMA SERIES - Sherlock (Hartswood Films for BBC Wales in co-production with Masterpiece for BBC One)
ENTERTAINMENT - Celebrity Juice (Talkback Production Company for ITV2)
ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE - Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV Studios for ITV)
HISTORY - The Secret History Of Our Streets (Century Films and Halcyons Heart Films for BBC Two)
INTERNATIONAL - Girls (HBO for Sky Atlantic HD)
LIVE EVENT - The London Olympics 2012 (BBC Productions for BBC)
NATIONS AND REGIONS PROGRAMME - The Bank Of Dave, Episode 1 (Finestripe Producti ons for Channel 4)
POPULAR FACTUAL AND FEATURES - Long Lost Family, Series 2 (Wall to Wall Media for ITV)
PRESENTER - Clare Balding, The Olympics (BBC Productions for BBC)
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY - Operation Iceberg (BBC Productions for BBC Two)
SCRIPTED COMEDY - Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of my Life (Baby Cow for Sky Atlantic HD)
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY - 7/7: One Day in London (Minnow Films for BBC Two)
SINGLE DRAMA - The Hollow Crown: Richard II (A Neal Street Productions co-production with NBC Universal and WNET Thirteen for BBC Two)
SOAP AND CONTINUING DRAMA - Coronation Street (ITV Studios for ITV)
WRITER, COMEDY - Writing Team, The Thick of It, Series 4 (BBC P roductions for BBC Two)
WRITER, DRAMA - Steven Moffat, Sherlock (Hartswood Films for BBC Wales in co-production with Masterpiece for BBC One)
JUDGES' AWARD - Danny Boyle
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Dave Gordon
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