Iyabode Ololade Remilekun "Lola" Odusoga (previously Wallinkoski; born 30 June 1977 in

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) is a Finnish

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who won the

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contest in 1996. In 1997, she won the crown of

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. On 17 June 1996 at the

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competition in

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, she was second-runner up. Her mother is

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and her father is

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. She is also an actress, known for Vares: Tango of Darkness (2012), Hilander-TV (2010) and 3 asiaa: Petri Nygård (2013). Odusoga married Jarkko Wallinkoski on 12 August 2005. They have two children together: a daughter(born 2004) and a son (born 2006). After the couple divorced in 2015, she changed her last name back to her maiden name.

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