With more than 3 million votes cast in the final, Sam Heughan, who plays Jamie Fraser on Starz’s time-travel romantic saga Outlander, has won our fourth annual Anglo Fan Favorites men’s tournament, defeating fellow Scotsman David Tennant 61 percent to 39 percent in a hard-fought battle by both fandoms. Heughan, in costume in Scotland, recorded […]
The 2014 Anglo Fan Favorites Tournament is just around the corner, kicking off on Saturday, November 1. If you’re on pins and needles wondering who’s going to make up the list of 32 contenders, we have compiled the complete list, in one place, for your perusing pleasure. Surely you have your favorite, but did he make the cut? Check […]
It’s one of our most frequently asked questions: when’s Anglo Fan Favorites coming back? The wait is almost over: the tournament returns November 1. If you’re unfamiliar, here’s how it works: we pit beloved British celebrities, in tournaments of 32 men and 32 women, against each other, and each week, you’ll vote for the winners […]
She was genuinely moved by the level of support she had received.
Nope, it wasn’t even close. British actress Alex Kingston, Doctor Who‘s River Song and formerly ER‘s Elizabeth Corday, has won 2013’s Anglo Fan Favorites women’s title, defeating Downton Abbey‘s Dame Maggie Smith by an overwhelming 77 percent to 23 percent score. It is the most lopsided victory we’ve ever witnessed in a Fan Favorites final. […]
VOTE IN THE FINALS! The big news: after a men’s final populated by former winners, there will be a brand-new champion in this year’s Anglo Fan Favorites women’s tournament. Two first-time finalists will vie for the ultimate title – Woman of 2013. In one corner, we have the wild card-turned-frontrunner Alex Kingston, who plays River […]
VOTE IN THE SEMIFINALS! Helena Bonham Carter. Katie McGrath. Dame Maggie Smith. Oh how familiar those names have become to Anglo Fan Favorites followers. Bonham Carter was our inaugural winner, back in 2011, and runner-up last year. McGrath dethroned HBC in 2012, and Dame Maggie has not budged from her imperious perch, winning third place […]
VOTE IN THE QUARTERFINALS! The titans have started to tumble: last week’s Round 2 saw 2011 runner-up JK Rowling and “Greatest Woman of Doctor Who“ Billie Piper both eliminated. Some of the usual suspects remain, of course, with our two previous champs Helena Bonham Carter and Katie McGrath still alive and fighting. But as numbers […]
VOTE IN ROUND 2! Kate Winslet, Dame Helen Mirren, and the entire female cast of Sherlock were shown no mercy in Round 1 the Anglo Fan Favorites women’s tournament and have been eliminated. We move on to the Round of 16 , which, as usual, is heavy on Doctor Who and Harry Potter alumni. (Don’t […]
VOTE IN ROUND 1! We end it just to do it all over again: after whittling down 32 Anglophile fan favorites to one supreme champion in our men’s tournament — congrats again, Tom Hiddleston — we now celebrate those fierce goddesses of the British Isles who set the Internet ablaze. This year’s group of talented […]
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