Celebrity Big Brother voting figures reveal Coleen Nolan triumphed over Jedward with a narrow lead of just three per cent as tight race went down to the wire
The other contestants didn't even come near to the top two as the full numbers were revealed by show bosses
THE FIGURES are in – and it has been revealed that only Jedward came close to topping Coleen Nolan in the Celebrity Big Brother finale.
Fans expressed their shock when Loose Women star Coleen was announced the winner of the Channel 5 reality show on Friday night - after it was assumed Irish twins Jedward had it in the bag
But it appears despite the outrage, people who called up to place their votes were firmly on Team Coleen – and she walked away with over a third of the entire votes.
Jedward was the only other housemate(s) that came near her- pulling in just under 30% of the vote and leaving the other four finalists to scrape the final third between them.
At the time of his eviction, Calum Best had only managed to bag himself a little over 1% of the vote count before he got an early boot on Tuesday night’s show.
The revelation comes after viewers cried ‘fix’ after they branded bubbly Coleen too ‘boring’ to come out as champion.
Coleen burst into tears when Emma Willis announced her name over the Irish twins.
During a chat with host Emma, she said: "Don’t make me cry I’ve done so much crying on this show. I’m traumatised.
"I’ve never won anything in my life on my own ever.
"If I put my hand on my heart I didn’t deserve to win it as I have been boring."
The voting figures breakdown
Coleen Nolan: 32.65%
Jedward: 29.91%
Kim Woodburn: 14.52%
James Cosmo: 10.33%
Nicola McLean: 6.94%
Bianca Gascoigne: 4.36%
Calum Best: 1.3%
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She later admitted she was convinced that Jedward would be the winners right up until her name was announced.
Many fans were also shocked by the outcome as Jedward had been bookies’ favourites as well.
They flocked to Twitter to express their disappointment, insisting Coleen was not interesting enough to deserve the title.
One wrote: "Can't believe I've sat and watched #cbb for three weeks for COLEEN NOLAN to win... biggest fix."
Another added: "@bbuk fix so disappointing what did Coleen Nolan bring to the house nothing!!!!"
A third tweeted: "Another celebrity big brother another fix boring Coleen Nolan did not get the most votes..."
Even the house’s divisive housemate Kim Woodburn admitted her disappointment that Jedward lost out – and referred to Coleen as ‘Fag Ash Lil’ in a conversation following her eviction.
Kim stated: "I will say this now - How that woman won Celebrity Big Brother when Jedward were sitting there, I have no idea!
"Public, I don't know how you let that boring, Fag Ash Lil' - with that I know now to be a rotten mouth about her about me - win. She shouldn't have won. It should have been Jedward.”
She later added she would’ve preferred her house nemesis Nicola McLean to have taken the crown instead.
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