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Every relationship has its ups and downs, but none more so than Linda's - because she's married to a 70-tonne rollercoaster called Bruce.

Linda, 56, first fell in love with 70ft tall Bruce 26 years ago when she worked at the carnival where the ride was based.

But only recently rekindled the romance after previous relationships with a locomotive and an aeroplane.

She is a self-proclaimed 'objectum sexual' which means she has romantic feelings for inanimate objects.

Linda, from America, is just one of the stars of the new series of My Strange Addiction which airs on channel TLC.

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"Some women like tall men, some women like men with a colorful personality, he's got all of that," she says in the show.

"To me, Bruce is just amazing when he stands up and is spread out."

The pair enjoy candlelit dinners and Linda often spends the night sleeping in the ride.

She's joined by a couple of Brits with unusual habits - including 29-year-old Londoner Patrice who has been addicted to chewing bricks for the past 12 years.

Her addiction is so powerful she once chewed a two-foot hole in the wall of her bedroom and ate part of her grandmother's home in secret.

"I started eating brick in my late teens," she explained in the show.

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"I got the idea to do it from my grandma who told me that my auntie and uncle, when they were kids, used to dig the wall and taste it."

She says living in London makes her addiction worse.

"London is full of brick,' she says. "The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the roads. Brick is everywhere. I'm having this constant reminder of brick, brick, brick."

Also featured is 29-year-old Carolyn from Liverpool who has spent £26,000 making herself look more like Pamela Anderson and has dubbed herself 'the Scouse Pammie'.

There's also Evelyn, who drinks air freshener and sprays it in her mouth up to 50 times a day.