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Love Island Australia’s Josh declares his love for Anna as they’re crowned winners – beating Adam and Cartier
THE winners of Love Island Australia have not only won the reality series, but also won each other’s hearts.
Anna McEvoy and Josh Packham were announced winners of the second series of Love Island Australia.
Love Island Australia series crowned its winners tonight[/caption]
The series which first aired Down Under in 2019 but just wrapped on ITV2, saw Matthew Zukowski and Cartier Surjan came in second, just missing out on the prize money.
Cynthia Taylu and Aaron Shaw where in third, while Jessie Wynter and Todd Elton clinched fourth place.
The final episode saw the couples meet each other’s family via video call with Matt admitting he thought Cartier’s dad was “scary”.
The couples then stood by a giant floral wall to declare their feelings for each other.
But before that, couples had to reveal how they felt about each other in front of a floral wall[/caption]
The top three couples were, Cynthia and Aaron, Anna and Josh, and Cartier and Matt[/caption]
Some the ousted Islanders came back for the finale including, Blake, Margarita, Adam, Jessie and Todd[/caption]
With Josh telling Anna, “here’s to putting our eggs into each other’s basket and hatching our very own love story”.
Over at the Villa the only former Islanders at the finale are Todd and Jessie, a solo Adam, and Margarita and Blake.
A crowd of people are invited to watch the announcement as voiceover guy, Eoghan McDermott is on display in a purpose built booth inside the Villa.
Host Sophie Monk then plays videos reflecting on each of the couples’ time in the Villa and their growing love stories.
But Anna and Josh were named the winners overall[/caption]
Cynthia and Aaron were announced as the third place getters and before Sophie announced the final winners, she asked Josh how she felt about Anna.
“I do love Anna,” he said as the host revealed, “stop, I’m getting goosebumps”.
A speechless Anna grinned from ear to ear, and then smiled further when they were named winners of Love Island Australia.
“Usually I never stop speaking, but now I’m speechless,” she said breathlessly.
Then a twist came that saw one of them choose $50,000 or love[/caption]
But in an Aussie twist, the pair were given two envelopes and would have to choose between love or money.
One envelope would contain $0 and the other $50,000 (£27,732), with whoever getting the money choosing between ‘love’ and splitting the money with their partner, or keeping it all for themselves.
Anna got the envelope with $0, but Josh managed to get the big bucks and faced a huge decision.
“Josh, that $50,000 is yours,” said Sophie. “Choose money and you can leave with all of it. Choose love, and you will share it with Anna.”
Josh chose love and the pair will be splitting the $50,000 prize money[/caption]
“I’m definitely not the smartest bloke in the world,” began Josh. “But I’m no fool either. I’ll be choosing love every day.”
“Love wins,” Sophie declared as the series came to a close.
Fans were a bit freaked out to see voiceover guy Eoghan McDermott is real life[/caption]
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Love Island Australia fans loved the series and the winners, with many lamenting the fact the series was over.
“Anna and Josh, you DID IT huns!!! A looks,” wrote one Twitter user.
Another added: “My favourites!! Anna and Josh”
And a third said: “Worthy winners, Anna is lovely. Anyone know what happened next?”
