Reception
Ian was voted one of the top five television characters "we most love to hate" in a Channel 4 poll in 2001. In 2009, Ian Beale came ninth in a poll by British men's magazine Loaded for 'Top Soap Bloke'. Woodyatt has received a number of award nominations for his portrayal of Ian, including a best actor nomination at the British Soap Awards in 2010 and a nomination for best performance in a serial drama in the 2012 National Television Awards.
Author Dorothy Hobson has stated that Ian Beale is a "major creation" capturing the personification of political attitudes taken up during Margaret Thatcher's premiership as Prime Minister in the 1980s. She suggests that Ian Beale is a "major representation of a young man" of that era, and that his sensitive portrayal by Adam Woodyatt is "perhaps unrecognised". Roz Paterson of the Daily Record branded Ian "eminently unlovable" and stated that Melanie proposing to him represented a growing trend in women proposing. Holy Soap said that Ian's most memorable moment was "His attempted murder in the Square". In 2009, Virgin Media called Ian "the most boring and selfish man in Walford" and felt that he deserved to lose his wife, Jane.
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