The four-part thriller reached its conclusion on Thursday evening, delivering a surprising finale.<\/p>\n
The series starred Sally Lindsay as Donna and Jill Halfpenny as Lucy, two women whose paths cross in disturbing circumstances.<\/p>\n
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Number One Fan’s ending left some viewers disappointed<\/p>\n
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Lucy fronts her own daytime programme and has developed a successful self-care brand, projecting an image of perfection both on screen and at home with husband Shawn, portrayed by Daniel Adegboyega, and their two children, Jacob and Poppy.<\/p>\n
Her seemingly charmed existence takes an unexpected turn following a daytime robbery attempt, when former military personnel Donna intervenes to protect her.<\/p>\n
The rescue creates an instant connection, with Donna confessing her admiration for the television star.<\/p>\n
As a gesture of thanks, Lucy invites Donna backstage at her morning show, believing this will conclude their brief acquaintance.<\/p>\n
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Number One Fan concluded on Thursday<\/p>\n
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As the story unfolds, viewers discover that Donna’s true motivation is vengeance. <\/p>\n
She seeks retribution for an unforgivable act from Lucy’s past that resulted in the death of Donna’s brother, Ben Hughes.<\/p>\n
The finale takes an unexpected turn as Donna’s meticulously planned revenge scheme reaches its devastating conclusion.<\/p>\n
After kidnapping Lucy and staging her apparent suicide, Donna secures an apology from her, but doesn’t stop there.<\/p>\n
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Donna’s ultimate motives were revealed in Number One Fan’s finale<\/p>\n
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Six months later, Lucy has returned to television, but Donna has secured herself a regular slot called ‘Daily Dose of Donna’ on Lucy’s programme. When Lucy attempts to remove her tormentor, Donna reveals her ultimate leverage.<\/p>\n
Donna’s nephew Luke, who is Ben’s son, had infiltrated Lucy’s family by posing as her son Jacob’s boyfriend Vince.<\/p>\n
He manipulated Jacob into bombing a fuel depot, injuring a security guard, and captured the entire incident on film.<\/p>\n
This evidence ensures Lucy can never escape Donna’s grip. In a rare television ending, the antagonist achieves complete victory, holding permanent power over Lucy and her family.<\/p>\n
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Number One Fan starred Jill Halfpenny and Sally Lindsay <\/p>\n
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Fans appeared to feel short-changed by the series ending, with one asking on X: “Is that it? #NumberOneFan.”<\/p>\n
“Hedging their bets on a second series? #NumberOneFan,” another theorised.<\/p>\n
A third fumed: “This is completely preposterous #NumberOneFan.”<\/p>\n
“What a load of old b******s #NumberOneFan,” someone else complained.<\/p>\n
“#numberonefan omg, and I watched all episodes thinking it must surely get better, will I never learn,” another shared.<\/p>\n
“What a crass ending #NumberOneFan,” another X user wrote, while one more added: “What a load of s****, what kind of ending was that? Only good thing Sally Lindsay.”<\/p>\n
However, there were some satisfied viewers who look forward to a potential second series.<\/p>\n
One penned: “Watched series all in one go was brilliant is there gonna be series 2?”<\/p>\n
“Gotta be a series 2 for #numberonefan. That cannot be the ending,” another posted. (sic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Channel 5 viewers have slammed the ending of Channel 5 drama, Number One Fan, labelling the final episode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[830,21407,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-celebrity","tag-channel-5","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}