Losing X Factor contestants are always at pains to stress what good friends they are with those remaining in the competition and how they are routing for them to do well.
Viewers may suspect that beneath the friendly hugs they are all secretly wishing the others would simply disappear, but it seems that Ruth Lorenzo and Alexandra Burke have overcome the odds to build a real friendship.
Holding hands the girls were pictured laughing and joking at Heathrow airport as they prepared to board a plane to Mauritius today.
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