Australia's 'most identical' twins revealed as Perth sisters win Nine's lookalike series
The winners of Nine's Australia's Most Identical reality series have been crowned.
Twin sisters Yvette and Linda, 58, from Perth, have been named as the most convincing lookalikes from an initial 100 contestants.
'The winners of Australia's Most Identical are... our WA teachers Yvette and Linda,' host Scott Cam revealed at the end of Wednesday's episode.
The two were awarded a trophy and shared their delight at being named Australia's most identical twins.
'I think all of us are very identical, we are all very special and we are all amazing for research,' the sisters said.
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The winners of Nine's Australia's Most Identical reality series have been crowned. Twin sisters Yvette and Linda, 58 (pictured), from Perth, have been named as the most convincing lookalikes from an initial 100 contestants
'All the eight finalists were amazing. We all need to cut this trophy into eight pieces and give everyone a piece.
'The friendships we formed have been amazing and it's so nice to be around people who are twins.
'We are very lucky to be twins, very lucky.'
The sisters had earlier appeared on the Today show where they revealed that they had once dated the same man.
'Well, only once but we didn't actually...' Yvette said.
'Linda went out with a guy and then I moved into a house somewhere and he knocked on my door.
'I hadn't seen him in ages and he goes, "Do you wanna go out?" and I'm like, "oh you're creepy."'
Linda chimed in: 'I only just found this out recently, she just told me. You didn't tell me then!'
'It was only 10 years ago' Yvette joked with a laugh.
They have also previously detailed Yvette's battle with both breast and bowel cancer from which she is in remission.
I knew that death could happen but I never ever thought of leaving Linda on her own' she said.
'That would've killed me'.
The sisters cherish being twins and and say it's like "winning the lottery".
'We see each other every day. That is my biggest gift!' Yvette said.
Nine's Australia's Most Identical was the biggest entertainment show in prime time ratings this week.
The quirky reality series, hosted by Scott Cam and Dr Jana Pittman, and which tries to identify Australia's 'most identical' identical twins scored an impressive national average of 731,000 viewers.
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