A BEST friend duo took home the cash prize after a tense Race Across The World final last night (Weds) - but they’ve admitted they’ll be lucky if much of it lasts the summer. Alfie and Owen, who became the show’s youngest ever winners after travelling 15,000km across Eastern Asia, lifted the trophy after a sprint finish across Lombok’s sands. And bagging themselves the £20,000 cash prize, the pair have plans to splash some of their cash heading off again on trips around the globe.
Owen said: “I’ll take my parents away and do something nice for them, and treat my brothers.” Alfie joked: “I’m going to the Caribbean ! And then I need to go and live somewhere. “I’m sadly going to have to be responsible with it.
.. if it makes it through the summer.
” The pair beat mother and daughter duo Eugenie and Isabel who came in second eight minutes behind, ahead of siblings Betty and James, and husband and wife Stephen and Viv. It proved an emotional series for the best friends, who early on in the competition left viewers 'broken' as Alfie broke down over the death of his mother, who died when he was five years old. In the fourth episode, as the teams crossed into Southeast Asia, through Vietnam and Cambodia , Alfie revealed his heart-wrenching story watching the floating lanterns of Hoi An.
Speaking of his mum's stage four breast cancer, and how she was given six weeks to live, he lit up a lantern in her memory. He opened up: "It was her number one aim, she said, '.
