Denise Welch wins Celebrity Big Brother 2012

OHMYGOSSIP — Denise Welch has been crowned Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother 2012 champion. The Loose Women star burst into tears upon hearing the result, and hugged runner-up Frankie Cocozza. After being reminded by Marcus Bentley to leave the house, an emotional Welch was faced with a chorus of cheers as she met Brian Dowling.

“Honest to God, I don’t think I’ve ever been as lost for words,” she told Dowling. “I didn’t know what to do – I didn’t know whether to celebrate or get my t*ts out.

“I can’t even talk, oh my God. Because I was the last one in, I thought it was a joke and I’d been forgotten about and I wasn’t going in.”

After struggling for breath, Welch added: “I’m not going to be modest – it feels bloody brilliant!”

Excusing her behaviour in the infamous Pantsgate incident, Welch said: “Because I bottled everything up, a few sherries later it came out but there were a few things hurting me.”

Of her turbulent relationship with Michael Madsen, she went on: “Till the day I die, I will not understand that man. Some of the best laughs I had in that house was with Michael when we were talking.”

With the camera cutting to Madsen’s deadpan expression in the audience, Welch added: “It’s made me learn that not everyone’s going to like it. I’m a pathetic people pleaser. If we’d not been together in a house, we would’ve met and maybe had a laugh.”

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Former X Factor star Cocozza received a positive reaction as he left the house, and was in good spirits in his interview with Dowling.

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