{"id":363535,"date":"2025-08-22T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363535\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:28:00","slug":"bbc-destination-x-winner-sealed-after-horrible-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363535\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Destination X winner &#8216;sealed&#8217; after &#8216;horrible&#8217; elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of BBC&#8217;s Destination X believe they&#8217;ve worked out who is set to win the series, following another brutal elimination<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Screenshot-2025-08-21-221434.jpg\" alt=\"Destination X contestants Daren, Josh and Judith\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Destination X contestants Daren, Josh and Judith             (Image: BBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/tv\/bbc-destination-x-shares-major-32294071?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_mobile\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Destination X<\/a> had <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/tv\/destinationx-bbc-fans-complaint-twist-32317767\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">TV viewers<\/a> on the edge of their seats once again on Thursday (21 August), as another contestant lost their spot on the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/bbc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Claire became the latest contestant to be eliminated, having failed to correctly guess the location as Pisa, Italy. She narrowly missed out on a spot in the semi-final, leaving <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/tv\/destination-bbc-darren-tears-wife-32279735?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_mobile\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Daren<\/a>, Judith, Josh and Saskia as the remaining contestants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I was well wrong, no wonder I&#8217;m here! This game is so hard. Thinking back to the clues, I still can&#8217;t see anything that would match anything to do with this,&#8221; Claire said after she exited the bus to see the Tower of Pisa infront of her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Reflecting on her Destination X journey, she added: &#8220;But, what an experience. What a brilliant experience! I&#8217;ve learnt a lot about myself, met some fabulous people, who will be friends forever. It&#8217;s an experience I&#8217;m always going to draw upon. I was convinced I was going to win!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Screenshot-2025-08-21-221337.jpg\" alt=\"Claire on Destination X\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Claire was eliminated during Thursday&#8217;s episode of Destination X             (Image: BBC)READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/tv\/bbc-strictly-come-dancing-fans-32326358\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"32326358\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans make same observation as Lewis Cope confirmed for 2025 series<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/tv\/prime-videos-female-led-period-32325377\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"32325377\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prime Video&#8217;s female led period drama from horror director reworks classic character<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fans at home were left gutted by Claire&#8217;s elimination and with the final drawing closer, many began predicting who is going to be crowned the winner of the BBC series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;NOOOOO this elimination is so horrible I\u2019ve had ENOUGH,&#8221; one fan complained on X, with a second saying: &#8220;That&#8217;s a shame, I liked Claire. Darren must win now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;#DestinationX has been class. Edge of the seat stuff. Come on Daren,&#8221; a third wrote. Another added: &#8220;Is Daren actually gonna win this on a wing and a prayer???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dozens of fans appeared to agree that Daren would be a worthy winner, with another saying: &#8220;daren for the win!!!!!! #DestinationX,&#8221; and somebody else commenting: &#8220;Judith or Daren to win, otherwise we&#8217;re rioting. #DestinationX.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Screenshot-2025-08-21-221730.jpg\" alt=\"Daren on Destination X\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Daren is a firm favourite with TV viewers         (Image: BBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Daren revealed he&#8217;d managed to stay in the game by pure luck, having made a random guess about the location after being left puzzled by the clues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I&#8217;m feeling very lucky to survive the elimination. Come on, you cabbies!&#8221; he said, following his co-star Claire&#8217;s exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He proceeded to explain to Josh, Saskia and Judith how he&#8217;d been given a clue and shared it with Claire, leaving both Josh and Saskia disappointed. Josh admitted his alliance with Daren was now over, after he picked Claire over him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Destination X continues on Wednesday on BBC One at 9pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of BBC&#8217;s Destination X believe they&#8217;ve worked out who is set to win the series, following another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[192,748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070063906788401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}