On Monday night, the final three teams raced in the grand finale of The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition, hoping to win the glory and $100,000 cash prize for their chosen charity.

Stephen and Bernard Curry took out the top spot, followed closely by Rob Mills and Georgie Tunny, with Aesha Scott and Scott Dobson taking third place.

"It was honestly so surreal," Aesha told 10, "I've watched the show since I was 13 and I'd always sit in my lounge, not on the couch but on the carpet right in front of the TV, thinking I'd love to do that one day.

"Every time we had to run and jump onto the Pit Stop mat, it was one of those real 'pinch me' moments that didn't feel real. I just felt grateful the whole time," she continued.

Having starred on Below Deck and competing on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2023, Aesha is no stranger to reality TV, and while Scott has made a few appearances, it was his first time being on camera regularly. But Aesha admits that it wasn't difficult to convince him to take on the race alongside her.

"One of the things that Scott and I are most compatible on is our love for travel adventure," Aesha said. "When I met him, he was living in his van, which was a converted ambulance. We pretty much spent the whole first year of our relationship just cruising around camping.

"Scott taught me to paraglide, he taught me to rock climb, and to go rafting. All these different things. Being thrust into new, adventurous situations was a very fitting thing for us," she said.

As the race went on, Aesha's hunger for the win and her competitive nature began to slip out more and more. Laughing, she admitted that about a year into their relationship, Scott had to sit her down and give her an ultimatum.

"He said, 'Listen, if this is how you're going to behave when we play card games, I'm not going to play with you anymore'. I just get so f**king psycho and, if I lose, I turn into the biggest sulk," she laughed.

"I get really, really passionate about my games, so Scott taught me how to be a bit more gracious, whether I'm winning or losing."

Thinking back to the very first day of the race and sizing up the competition, Aesha admitted that she never believed she and Scott would be one of the final three teams to still be competing.

"Oh my gosh, no way! We were as surprised as anyone that we were there," she laughed. "Not because I thought we weren't capable, Scott and I know that we are very capable all-rounders in terms of the skill sets for life.

"But when we were standing at that start line looking around, you realise that all of the teams are like that! All of the teams were capable, know what they're doing and have some sort of speciality that they're really going to nail," Aesha continued.

"I figured we'd come in sixth or seventh place just because there were so many amazing teams."

Fast forward to the very last day and the final leg of the race, Aesha was "absolutely sh*tting myself" with the pressure.

The finale was as tight a race as could be, with all three teams jostling for the top spot, but no one able to carve out a clear lead over the others. But it all came to a head with the final puzzle, where all three teams ended up bottlenecked. It all came down to this final challenge, and it was anyone's to win.

"We were at that puzzle for hours," Aesha said, quickly adding, "Well, it felt like hours. I don't actually know how long it was."

Testing their powers of observation and memory, the puzzle required teams to place eggs with symbols on them in the right order from the previous legs of the race.

"I knew that Scott had been keeping an eye on the symbols, and within the first ten minutes, we had half of the board firmed up. I was like, 'Oh yeahhh, we got this!' I was feeling pretty confident that we were going to cruise to the finish line first," Aesha said.

But the final third of the puzzle proved to be a different story, and the pair were stumped.

"I kept saying to Scott, if we lose this and we can't do it, I absolutely do not mind because I wasn't contributing to the challenge one bit," she admitted.

The Curry brothers were the last team to arrive at the puzzle, but made swift work of it and were swiftly on to the final pit stop, leaving the other two teams to battle it out for second place.

"We were so happy for them," Aesha said. "Out of everyone, the Curry brothers were our show besties, and we just really admired and respected them.

"If we were going to be beaten by anyone, they’re one of the teams that we would have actually been happy to be beaten by. I mean, we all want to win for our charities, but we just love them so much. We couldn’t feel anything but joy for them," she said.

Aesha and Scott were racing on behalf of Peace of Mind, Australia's leading brain cancer support charity, dedicating their time on the race to her brother Reuben, who passed away from an aggressive brain cancer when he was 24 years old.

"I'm already ten years or so past what my brother managed to live to," Aesha said. "What a blessing every single day is, and how exciting he would have found everything that I've done.

"There were moments when it was really hard or I was really struggling and, it sounds morbid but, I'd think to myself, would you rather be putting something that looks like a ballsack filled with oil and tripe in your mouth or would you rather be dead?

"I just thought, you’ve got absolutely nothing to complain about. Get it done and just enjoy the experience," Aesha said.

Watch full seasons of The Amazing Race Australia on 10.