Live on Sunday night’s final episode of Castaway on BBC One, Scotsman Jonathan Shearer was voted the ultimate Castaway by viewers of the series.

He receives a month long, tailor-made trip around New Zealand for himself and a companion.

For the last two weeks of the series, viewers have been able to vote for which Castaway they felt had made the most of the experience.

Those with the fewest votes were Cast Off leaving just four – Francie, Little Al, Jonathan, Catherine – in the final show.

In the last moments, it came down to just Jonathan and Francie but the Scotsman pipped her to the post in the end.

From the outset of the series, Jonathan was a controversial character; he seemed to revel in causing disruption and discord. He always spoke his mind, disagreed with others regularly and generally provoked his fellow castaways.

Eventually he was booted out of the communal sleeping hut, literally Cast Out, so moved into the potting shed and created his own little home, resulting in much more harmony for both himself and the others!

Although argumentative, Jon also had a much kinder side. At times he gave away some of his own food rations and lent warm clothing for the treacherous fishing trips.

By the end, most of the group had a real fondness for him but, for one or two, he pushed them too far and forgiveness is not likely.

He has a one-year-old son back in Scotland whom he only met for the first time just three weeks before leaving for Castaway.

During his 12 weeks on the island, though, Jon finally, as he says, “learnt how to be a father”, which is perhaps why most viewers voted him as “the person who had made the most of the Castaway experience”.

Commenting on the how he feels about taking part, Jon told presenter Danny Wallace: “I want to live like this forever, I want to be self-sufficient… although not with 14 people crowding around me, shouting at me, hounding me out of my sleeping hut!”

When asked about what he expects once he gets home he replied, smiling: “I almost feel like I’m going to be Cast-away again. There’s another adventure, but this time not just for three months, for the rest of my life with my son.”