While Hollywood starlets have chosen white as their colour du jour when stepping onto the red carpet, the Brit girls have remained faithful to the LBD (the L standing for both long and little here).

A huge number of actresses turned up in black dresses for the 2010 British Soap Awards on Saturday and this didn’t vary from soap to soap with starlets from Hollyoaks, Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale all opting for the trusty black dress.

We’ve put together a gallery of the best and worst black frocks of the night.

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