Gwen and Leshawna

The Gwen-LeShawna Friendship article is about the friendship between Gwen and LeShawna.

Overview
LeShawna is arguably Gwen's closest female friend on the show, to the point of being called 'best friends', as the two often teamed up during the challenges and both were strongly opposed to Heather's cheating. The female duo were also seen together often in their spare time. LeShawna constantly stood by Gwen, no matter the issue. In return, Gwen and LeShawna's friendship blossomed. 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). The two remained close in Total Drama Action, though their friendship became strained after Gwen hit Harold in the head with a shovel. After this, though LeShawna sensed something was also happening behind the scenes, she fell back on the fact that hitting Harold was a strange act, it wasn't like Gwen, and she "was wrong". Her vote led to Gwen's elimination in The Chefshank Redemption. This occurred after her messy breakup with Trent, fueling the tension. Both girls returned for Total Drama World Tour, but since the two were placed on different teams and LeShawna was eliminated early in the show, they hardly interacted.

Not So Happy Campers - Part 2
They both agree that Heather is acting ridiculous, and later the two can be seen sitting next to each other in the main lodge.

Dodgebrawl
When Gwen hits Courtney in the head with a dodgeball as revenge for flinging oatmeal at her face that morning, LeShawna laughs at Courtney and says, "You messed with the wrong white girl!"

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

Basic Straining
When everyone's eating the stolen food, Gwen and LeShawna are seen talking to each other. Later, when Courtney runs outside to puke, Gwen and LeShawna laugh together at her.

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. Gwen and LeShawna prank Heather by locking her out of the cabin and smiling together.

X-Treme Torture
Gwen high-fived LeShawna after she kissed Harold, like friends do. 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 camp.

Search and Do Not Destroy
LeShawna comforted Gwen as she cried over Heather and Trent kissing. after learning what happened, an enraged LeShawna avenged 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. She apologized to Gwen upon realizing they had been misled into voting off Trent when Heather won invincibility. Everyone looked sad when Trent had to go. Gwen, especially, was crying over his premature departure. LeShawna gave Heather a sewage shower after the Campfire Ceremony for revenge.

Hide and Be Sneaky
LeShawna took another revenge against Heather 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's just plain mean. Unfortunately, along with the other campers, Gwen and LeShawna were shocked to see Bridgette being eliminated instead of Duncan.

Camp Castaways
Gwen is sulking, because Chris tricked the eliminated contestants into voting LeShawna off. Heather taunts her for this, and Gwen responds by rattling the loose step that she was painting her nails on. This leads to further arguement.

The Very Last Episode, Really!
Gwen stated that LeShawna was one of the five sane people on the island (the others being Owen, Cody, Bridgette, and DJ). LeShawna sided with Gwen even when Owen announced his party. In this episode, LeShawna exibits 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 event tries to have Eva cheer for Gwen with her other supporters. 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 poolside with LeShawna and Trent, when she admits that the best thing about the series for her was meeting them, to which they both agreed. Gwen and LeShawna laughed with Trent at Heather twice in this episode. First, they laughed at the smiley face LeShawna drew on the back of Heather's head. Second, they laughed when they saw Heather's head stuck in a beaver hole. 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 retriving 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. This proves how close they truly are. LeShawna quietly suggested picking Heather over Izzy in their team and Gwen reluctantly agrees. This was to ensure that they could keep an eye on Heather so that she could not cheat her way through the competition again; (LeShawna: "[whispering to Gwen] Keep your enemies closer.") Gwen truly trusts LeShawna's judgement in this case.

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 that Heather, meaning she still deeply trusted Gwen. Unfortunately, Heather's suspicions would be proven true later on, and Gwen was eliminated for that.

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
Gwen says that LeShawna is a great friend to her during her interview.

Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special
When Katie and Sadie interrupt Gwen's video blog, Gwen laments on LeShawna bailing on her. This indicates that LeShawna was invited to be on the video blog, but just couldn't make it. She was likely busy with Tyler on one of their many reality shows.

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

Riot On Set
After Gwen picks LeShawna for the Screaming Gaffers and Trent picks Justin for the Killer Grips, Gwen says to Trent, "Oh, pick all the good-looking people," which visibly insults LeShawna.

The Chefshank Redemption
Although Gwen and LeShawna are best friends, LeShawna is one of the people who voted Gwen off in this episode, along with Heather, Harold, and Gwen herself, as she disapproved of Gwen knocking Harold on the head with a shovel. This is the first time LeShawna had a negative attitude towards Gwen. Also, when it was learned that the Killer Grips won, LeShawna glared at Gwen for her mistake. She also calls her "Puke-breath."

The Aftermath: II
On the "That's Gonna Leave a Mark" segment, LeShawna hits Gwen in the head with a spoon after Gwen hit Harold over the head with a shovel.

Trivia

 * Harold has claimed to be attracted to both of them at least once.
 * Harold is also attracted to their worst enemy.
 * Both of them have a friendship with Bridgette, Owen, DJ, Trent, Katie, and Sadie, and dislike Heather and Courtney.
 * Coincidentally, Gwen temporarily had a friendship with Courtney, and LeShawna had a temporary friendship with Heather, but both seem to be broken up now.
 * Both of them were in a relationship, but broke up with the boy in their respective relationships.
 * Both LeShawna and Gwen were the first contestants to use the confessional in at least one season; Gwen in Total Drama Island and LeShawna in Total Drama World Tour.
 * Gwen made it farther than LeShawna in two seasons, but LeShawna made it farther than Gwen in one season.
 * Both of them have competed in the first three seasons and have been on the same team two times in a row.
 * Total Drama World Tour is the first season where Gwen and LeShawna are placed on different teams.
 * Both have been eliminated in the seventh episode of a season; Gwen in Total Drama Action and LeShawna in Total Drama World Tour.
 * They are the only two campers from Total Drama Island's final five that didn't win a season in the United States or Canada.
 * However, Gwen has won in an alternate ending of Total Drama Island that aired in some countries.