Destination X fans are completely crashing out after a fan-favourite contestant was shown the coach door before the final.
The penultimate episode of Rob Brydon’s Europe-traversing gameshow with a twist aired on the BBC tonight as the last handful of contestants raced to give their best guess at their location from the clues they had picked up along the way.
After landing in Monaco, with hints like F1 and Grace Kelly peppered along the way, it was unfortunately taxi cab driver Daren Parr, 58, whose guess ultimately fell the furthest away.
The Gavin and Stacey star emotionally delivered to the bus full of contestants: ‘Daren, this is hard, I’m sorry, but I’m afraid for you, this is your final destination.’
That leaves our finalists as Judith, Josh and Saskia with literal kilometres lying between them and the £100,000 jackpot, upon whom he clearly left his mark as they all jumped in for a cuddle, tears in their eyes.
‘Listen, it’s been a privilege, it really has to get to know you all. Jackie P, here I come’ Daren said with a crack in his voice as he left.
And they aren’t the only ones getting emotional, considering how much support he had from the public, who are thrilled he can go back to his wife of 35 years, Jackie P, whom he had hoped to buy a new kitchen with the winnings.
Now that Daren’s gone, it seems most are now rooting for nuclear engineer Judith.
‘Gutted I tell you. Daren was my favourite, at least he can be with Jackie P,’ lady_carrie said on X.
‘I’m so disappointed that Daren hasn’t made it to the final. Such a lovely, down to earth, genuinely nice guy. I would have loved for him to win. I’m now Team Judith for the final,’ MrsP_A added.
‘Oof. That was rough. Daren is a nice man,’ Matthew Rimmer declared.
‘Daren can go home to Jackie P now. I was praying so hard for him to get through,’ Alexi__19 shared.
‘The people’s princess,’ Ellasrhapsody wrote.
‘My heart is broken,’ Shiv Harrison admitted.
Going into the finale, Josh told the BBC he realises he is ‘capable of achieving anything I set my mind to’ with hopes of paying his parents back for the money they spent on him to attend flight school.
Elsewhere, Saskia admitted she never thought she would make it this far and is so ‘proud of the journey I went on’.
Finally, Judith has grand plans for if she wins, sharing: ‘I would definitely love to treat my family, I would love to travel more and go to parts of the world I have never seen. Just being able to set up a future for myself would be amazing.’
The final episode of Destination X airs on Thursday, August 28 at 9pm on BBC One.
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