The Games FINAL: Love Island’s Wes Nelson and singer Chelcee Grimes crowned WINNERS

Chelcee Grimes and Wes Nelson had been topped the winners of The Games throughout the tense dwell ultimate held on the Crystal Palace athletics monitor on Friday night time.

The songstress, 30, and the Love Island star, 24, got here prime of the ladies’s and males’s leaderboards after racking up wins over the week with a sequence of sporting challenges on the monitor, within the pool and across the velodrome – whereas Wes was the general winner with 45 whole factors. 

During the ultimate the women and men took to the monitor to each compete within the 100m sprinting race, with Chelcee beating off stiff competitors from Olivia Attwood, Phoenix Brown, Christine McGuinness, Rebecca Sarker, and Lucrezia Millarini to cross the road first. 

Meanwhile within the males’s race Wes was streaks forward of his opponents Ryan Thomas, Kevin Clifton, Max George, Josh Herdman, Colson Smith as he sprinted to victory. 

Talking after her win Chelcee mentioned: ‘I did a Usain Bolt signal on the finish! I wish to say an enormous thanks to all the ladies and we have now been by a lot, we had been all simply racing individually and wow it is simply been wonderful.’ 

Meanwhile talking after his win Wes mentioned: ‘I’m completely buzzing. For me it has been extra than simply successful. This has been so good for my psychological well being, simply being in and round sport once more. I did not realise how a lot I missed it however this was the wake-up name I wanted and 100%, I’m going to stick with it.’

‘But for me, really, the largest journey and the largest transformation has been Colson, he deserves this trophy. He has been an absolute credit score to this entire competitors and has been an inspiration to all of us. All the fellows have been completely unbelievable, we have made buddies for all times.’

Overall within the girls’s Phoenix got here second whereas Rebecca got here third and within the males’s Ryan got here second whereas Josh completed third general.

Presenter Holly Willoughby mentioned on the finish of the present: ‘I’m made up for Chelcee, for the ladies, for getting the gold. All of them have been wonderful.’

Her co-host Freddie Filntoff added: ‘Wes has been such a very good athlete, he is received so many occasions. He’s a deserving winner.’

Earlier within the night time the ladies’s pace climbing ultimate noticed Chelcee battle it out in opposition to Phoenix, with Phoenix narrowly successful within the tense race.

She mentioned after the occasion: ‘That was a lot enjoyable, you had been such a very good competitor Chelcee.’ 

Lucrezia struggled within the pace climbing after growing a worry of heights attributable to an accident when she was youthful.

She defined in a VT: ‘I used to be on vacation in Greece and I leant again on a balcony and fell to the bottom. 

‘I used to be airlifted to Athens and it was essentially the most terrifying expertise of my life. So I’ll have a difficulty with the climbing to have the ability to belief the rope and lean again with my weight on it.’

Meanwhile within the males’s pace climbing occasion Wes continued his successful streak, beating Josh Herdman to the title in a really tight race.

During the ultimate the ladies additionally competed within the weight lifting occasion, with Rebecca Sarker successful even after being given a foul in her first spherical. 

Clearly thrilled she mentioned after the occasion: ‘I’m astounded, I did know I may do it, I’m small however I’m mighty!’

The Games has been on nightly this week till Friday when the ultimate came about, with the 12 contestants battling it out in a sequence of challenges.

It comes after weeks of gruelling coaching, which noticed the celebrities be put by their paces within the intense preparation.  

Hosted dwell by Holly Willoughby and Freddie Flintoff, The Games additionally featured former skilled soccer participant and presenter Chris Kamara as commentator. 

Through the sporting challenges, celebrities racked up factors on the medals desk as they went head-to-head to achieve the highest. 

As the chief board took form with every night time, the sequence culminated in an exhilarating ultimate showdown wherein one male champion and one feminine champion had been topped.