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Celebrity Coach Trip's Linda and Lesley crowned 'deserving' winners in final

Celebrity Coach Trip stars Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph have been crowned this year's winners.

After a two-year break from screens, the couple went on to win the iconic E4 reality show - and fans were thrilled about it.

The series has seen the likes of singer Chesney Hawkes and socialite Nancy Dell'Olio, Geordie Shore pals Sophie Kasesi and James Tindale, Olympians Adam Gemili and Andrew Pozzi and RuPaul Drag Race UK contestants Ginny Lemon and Sister Sister.

After watching from home throughout the series, viewers took to Twitter to share their opinion when the Loose Women star and Birds of a Feather actress were crowned the winners.

One person wrote: "I knew from the start Lesley and Linda would win."

"Linda and Lesley are deserving winners. I knew they would win," another penned.

However a third fan didn't think Linda and Lesley were winners, as they shared: "Nah Ginny and Sister Sister made celeb coach trip this year. Robbed."

Love Island's Paige Turley and Finn Tapp missed out on making it to the final as they were booted off the show in recent days.

Paige and Finn joined the celebrity coach in Portugal after a holiday in Cyprus and said that a major bonus of the show was being able to appear on it together.

Joining the cast part way through the season meant the couple had to find their footing when friendships had already been made on the coach.

Paige said: “We eased into the group really quickly and everybody was so nice. I think a lot of people had forgotten that you had to vote people off until the time came to it.”

The 24-year-old said there was a degree of “voting tactics”, as the original cast tried to keep each other on the coach, but Finn said this was understandable.

He said: “If you took all the votes to heart, you wouldn't enjoy the experience for what it was.

“We just tried to enjoy the days as best as possible.”

Paige and Finn joined the celebrity coach in Portugal after a holiday in Cyprus (Channel 4)

The nightly voting process on the E4 show was still “brutal”, Paige exclusively told The Mirror.

“You're having such a good time and there's people that you would never necessarily meet, so it just felt really brutal voting somebody off,” she said.

“We got lucky we had such a great coach of people, so we never had any real reasons to vote for anybody. It was like making up excuses every night.”

Finn added: “You would have preferred someone to annoy you so you had a reason to vote them out.”

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