Gwen and Leshawna

This article focuses on the interactions between Gwen and Leshawna.

Overview
Leshawna is arguably Gwen's closest friend on the show, to the point of being called "best friends," as the two often team up during the challenges and both are strongly opposed to Heather and her tactics. The duo are also seen together often in their spare time. Leshawna constantly stands by Gwen and vice versa, no matter what the issue is. They are usually referred to as the two closest female friends on Total Drama Island with a mutual friendship (unlike Heather and Lindsay, who were also always seen together, yet had a one-sided friendship on Lindsay's side). Later in the season, Bridgette joined their friendship, although it wasn't as strong as the friendship Gwen and Leshawna had with each other.

The two remain close in Total Drama Action, though their friendship becomes strained after Gwen hits Harold in the head with a shovel. After this, Leshawna senses that something is also happening behind the scenes. She falls back on the fact that hitting Harold was a strange act, as it wasn't like Gwen, and she realizes something "was wrong." Her vote, along with Harold's, Heather's, and Gwen's own vote, led to Gwen's elimination in The Chefshank Redemption. Even further than this, Leshawna's relationships with most other people (possibly including Gwen), was strained after she lied to all of her teammates shortly after Gwen's elimination just to get a spa reward, and they later found out about her deception.

Both girls return for Total Drama World Tour, but since the two are placed on different teams and Leshawna is eliminated fairly early in the show, the two do not interact with each other throughout the whole season.

Dodgebrawl
When Gwen hits Courtney in the head with a dodgeball as revenge for flinging oatmeal in her face that morning, Leshawna laughs at Courtney and tells her that she "messed with the wrong white girl."

Who Can You Trust?
Gwen and Leshawna work well together in the blind toboggan race and win the challenge on a technicality. Leshawna praises Gwen when they win the challenge, and they high-five each other.

Basic Straining
As everyone eats the stolen food brought to them by Courtney and Duncan, Gwen and Leshawna are seen talking to each other. Later, when Courtney runs outside to puke, Gwen and Leshawna glance at each other and begin laughing at her misfortune.

X-Treme Torture
Gwen high-fived Leshawna after she kissed Harold. She was touched that the poems were wrote from Harold to Leshawna and thought it was sweet that he kissed her goodbye before he left the island.

Brunch of Disgustingness
In this episode, Bridgette moves into the girls cabin and she must choose between Heather and Lindsay or Leshawna and Gwen, hinting that Leshawna and Gwen are good friends, or at least share a dislike of Heather. Gwen and Leshawna prank Heather by locking her out of the cabin and smiling together.

Search and Do Not Destroy
Leshawna comforted Gwen as she cried over seeing Heather and Trent kissing. After learning what happened, an enraged Leshawna attempted to avenge Gwen by trying her best to eliminate Heather. First, Leshawna furiously formed a temporary alliance with almost everyone to vote off either Heather or Trent, believing that Trent had willingly kissed Heather and cheated on Gwen. She was extremely pleased when Trent was eliminated, but, upon learning that it was a trick and Trent was innocent, she apologized to Gwen. Everyone looked sad when Trent had to go. Gwen, especially, was crying over his departure. Leshawna messed with the plumbing in the communal bathrooms so that Heather had a sewage shower after the Campfire Ceremony for revenge.

Hide and Be Sneaky
Leshawna took revenge against Heather for her actions against Gwen by shredding her clothes. In a flashback, Leshawna defended Gwen by smacking Heather when Heather purposely turned on the sink's hot water to make Gwen's shower cold. After the challenge ends, Bridgette, Leshawna, and Gwen agreed to vote off Duncan due to them finding out about his guys' alliance, and agreeing that he is mean. Unfortunately, along with the other campers, Gwen and Leshawna were shocked to see Bridgette being eliminated instead of Duncan.

Hook, Line, and Screamer
When Leshawna is missing, Gwen shows concern for her. Leshawna, along with everyone else, warns Gwen that the real psycho killer is with her.

Wawanakwa Gone Wild!
When Gwen wins the reward, Leshawna, along with Geoff, stare angrily at her. Gwen states that they are just jealous.

Camp Castaways
Gwen is seen sulking, due to Leshawna being voted off in the previous episode.

The Very Last Episode, Really!
Gwen stated that Leshawna was one of the five people that she considered sane on the island (the others being Owen, Cody, Bridgette, and DJ). Leshawna sided with Gwen and didn't switch teams even when Owen announced his yacht party. During this episode, Leshawna exhibits her undying support for Gwen by cheering loudly and continually cheering her on during the race. She attempts several times to keep her focused and encouraged throughout the entire race. In fact, she even tries to have Eva cheer for Gwen with her other supporters (to no avail). Leshawna follows Gwen close behind nearly the whole time. She, along with Eva and Cody, happily smiles when Gwen was almost winning, and is unconsoled when Owen wins at the final meters.

Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island
In this episode, Gwen is sitting by the poolside with Leshawna and Trent. Here she admits that the best thing about the series for her was meeting them, to which they both agree. The three of them did not argue once over splitting their winnings if they got the $1,000,000 and formed a team together throughout the whole challenge to retrieve the case before the other contestants could. Even though they did not succeed in retrieving the case, both girls, along with Trent, made it to Total Drama Action.

Riot On Set
When Gwen is picking teams, Leshawna is the first girl she picks. Leshawna cheers and gleefully proclaims that "the girls are back in town!" meaning herself and Gwen. They then high-five with huge grins. Leshawna quietly suggested picking Heather over her team to ensure that they could keep an eye on Heather so that she could not cheat her way through the competition again. Gwen truly trusts Leshawna's judgment in this case, and chooses Heather.

3:10 to Crazytown
When Gwen fell down from the diving board, Leshawna shoved Trent out of the way and helped Gwen up.

The Chefshank Redemption
Leshawna was completely unconvinced of Heather's suspicions that Gwen was selling out the Gaffers to the Killer Grips, and stated that she trusted anyone more then Heather, implying that she still trusted Gwen.

Aside from that, Leshawna and Gwen did not get along very much in the episode. Leshawna noticeably disapproved of Gwen knocking Harold out, as well as breaking the shovel that they needed to get to the finish line in the process. Also, when it was learned that the Killer Grips won, Leshawna glared at Gwen for her mistake. She also calls her "puke-breath." Leshawna later votes Gwen out of the competition. Leshawna did not seem in the least bit sympathetic towards Gwen after her elimination.

One Flu Over the Cuckoos
By this point, Leshawna has learned of Gwen's underhanded deal with the Killer Grips. However, despite having voted her off in the previous episode, Leshawna clearly regrets Gwen's elimination, as it makes her and her team more vulnerable to Heather, prompting her to propose a new anti-Heather alliance.

The Aftermath: II
During the "That's Gonna Leave a Mark" segment, it is shown that Leshawna hits Gwen in the head with a spoon after Gwen hit Harold over the head with a shovel. When interviewed, Gwen harbors no hard feelings for Leshawna and states that she is a great friend.

Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special
Leshawna was supposed to help Gwen in her blog show, but was unable to, most likely due to being on other reality shows with Tyler.

Trivia

 * Both have been on the "Screaming" team for two seasons.
 * Both have a major conflict with Heather.
 * Both have been the first contestant to use the confessional for a season; Gwen was the first contestant to use the Total Drama Island confessional, and Leshawna was the first contestant to use the Total Drama World Tour confessional.
 * Both were eliminated on the seventh episode of a season.
 * In those seasons, both were also the fifth person to be eliminated.