lives together but like I said the husband comes back. She's not in any fit state to go through separating with somebody". Tony and Gabby have a brief relationship before she leaves Hollyoaks village. Reception Pickard was nominated at the 2001 British Soap Awards for "Best Comedy Performance". The following year Pickard was nominated in the "Best Actor" and "Best Comedy Performance" category. In 2002 Pickard was nominated for "Best TV Personality" at the Liverpool Echo Awards. At the 2010 Inside Soap Awards Tony's wedding to Cindy was nominated for "Best Wedding". At the 2013 National Television Awards Pickard was nominated in the category of "Serial Drama Performance". In 2018, Pickard and Fletcher were nominated for “Best Partnership” at the Inside Soap Awards. Tony was listed in "The Top 100 Soap Hunks of All Time" by What's on TV. What's on TV also listed Tony and Mandy at number 9 in "The Top 10 Soap Love Affairs of All Time" before they listed the couple's wedding in "The 50 top weddings of all time". In a 2009 poll by Loaded magazine, Tony was voted eighth in the "Top Soap Bloke of all time". The character was selected as one of the "top 100 British soap characters" by industry experts for a poll to be run by What's on TV, with readers able to vote for their favourite character to discover "Who is Soap's greatest Legend?" In her book Soap Stars, Debbie Foy refers to Tony as having lived through several dramatic episodes. Foy went on to describe Tony as being famous for his "many on-screen relationships, affairs and engagements" but always has plenty of heartache. The Daily Star described Tony as going "through more women than he’s served hot meals in his restaurant Gnosh" before adding that he is a "loser-in-love". They commented that after dumping Cindy "this time he’s only got himself to blame". On the character Sky said: "Tony Hutchinson is our fave character on the show. Probably because he's been on it the whole time since it started in 1995". An Inside Soap critic responded negatively to a plot centring on Tony catering for the college ball saying "Just who do the Hollyoaks writers think they are catering for with a plot like this? Do us a favour and serve up something decent!" The Liverpool Echos Caroline Corcoran reviewed Hollyoaks: Movin' On saying the spinoff provided "an