I gather Sam won... in my experience Prison Officers are generally a decent bunch. Now she can get her teeth fixed.

And you really do have the experience JK. Perhaps she can contact you for advice re avoiding a return to the service when and if her new career goes into decline? She has already said she wants to continue to support inmates.

I gave up watching XF some years ago when the blatant manipulation of the results stripped all the enjoyment out of the format for me, but I still take an outside interest...

What seems notable to me in light of the results, is that without exception, all of the judges and presenters in their sealed-at-the-beginning-of-the-series envelopes, picked Sam as the final winner, and the voting stats given out show that the contest from the very first week was only ever between the 2 eventual finalists... on the basis of which, it was hardly worth having the contest at all, when it was all so apparently pre-determined (if you see what I mean...)

Runners up get the best record deals.

Didn't Gary Barlow call it a game a show ?