The Only Way is Essex-Lauren G gets her claws into Mark and Sam

What started as an apology from Mark to Lauren turned into a cat fight between her and Sam.

At Chloe’s 30^th wedding themed part, Mark went over to ‘bridemaid’ Lauren and told her he was sorry she saw him and kissing at the Halloween party. He went on to sat that she can’t say she’s over him and then claim he’s out of order for kissing someone else.

‘Nine months ago you cried and said you wanted to marry me and like that you went off me’, questioned Lauren.

Mark told her it had nothing to do with her anymore.

‘Shut your fucking mouth and listen to me’, said Lauren. ‘Stop shagging about and get over yourself.

‘I forgive you and want to forget you. Get on with it. Get away from me. Never ring me again.’

As Mark walked away Lauren announced to the party her ex was a mug and desperate before turning to Sam and calling her desperate too.

But Sam added fuel to the fire by telling her she was embarrassing herself.

‘Fuck off. You’re meant to be my friend’, said Lauren.

‘Friend?’, questioned Sam.

Earlier Lauren G had told Lauren P and Gemma that Sam has jumped into her grave and is Mark’s sloppy seconds.

The Only Way is Essex-Sam gets the Wright approval

Sam was welcomed into the Wright family on last night’s episode as Mark’s mum Carol in invited her to dinner.

However, while out buying the ingredients for the dinner, Carol bumped into Mark’s ex Lauren at the supermarket. To make things more awkward, she revealed to Lauren that she was cooking a big dinner for Sam with the family. ‘Their dating, their just friends’, she insisted. ‘She’s requested shepherd’s pie.’

‘She’s taking my space’, joked Lauren. ‘You gave enough over the years’, replied Carol. Lauren suggested that if there were any left-overs she would come round the following day to polish them off.

But despite the light-hearted conversation, Lauren was more upset than she let on to Carol, telling friends Lauren P and Gemma that she was hurt as Carol had been more of a mum to her than her own mum. Gemma told her that from Carol’s point of view if Sam makes Mark happy then she will cook her shepherd’s pie.

At the Eright family meal, which Mark confirmed to Sam was a date, he said he wished ‘courting’ was like how it was in the old days as Nanny Pat told them what it was like when she was young. Mark said he felt girls were too ‘loose’ now and he wanted to go back to when couples just held hands. He went on to say that it’s terrible how many girls throw themselves at him and he says no everytime to them-as if?!

Mr Wright also revealed that he felt him and Sam were more than friends.

‘What is it you and me?’ he said to Sam. ‘When I left your house (after skiing) I was like fuck-how do I feel about her, maybe I’m falling for her? I don’t want to be in a serious relationship, but I don’t want you seeing other people and I won’t either. I think we’re more than friends?’ ‘Yes we are’, said Sam.

Also on TOWIE

• Arg considered getting his teeth whitened for Lydia and to look sexy and feel more confident as a singer. He told his dentist at a consultation he wanted a white shade between Hollywood and Brentwood.
• Mark visited Sam and sister Billie after they were attacked in a nightclub. Mark told Sam she was still beautiful even with two black eyes. He also admitted he got nervous around her.
• Harry asked Chloe for relationship advice with his potential new boyfriend who is part German.
• At a salsa class some of the group went to, Gemma told Arg, who was her dancing partner, that if Lydia ever broke up with him to come to her.
• Joey revealed that he likes Cara, however Kirk said he wasn’t interested in Cara, and Joey said he didn’t want to break up team Jerk but going on a date with just Cara.

The Only Way is Essex-Mick ditches Gemma

Gemma was left in tears on last night's episode as Mick took a bottle of champagne over to Lauren’s sister, Nicola, rather than her. Hours earlier Mick had told son Kirk that he had bought the champagne for the lady he fancies, but wouldn’t tell him who it was. Kirk presumed he was talking about Gemma and even gave her his blessing, but did later say to his girlfriend Popey, when he saw Gemma crying, that his dad hadn’t led her on.

Gemma, who has made it very clear to the whole of Essex her feelings for Mick, had a quick cry and told friends Chloe and Maria she was over it. She said that she needed to toughen up as she wears her heart on her sleeve and always gets hurt. She also confessed that she would never speak to Mick again.

But will Gemma be able to get over Mick as quickly as she claims? After telling friends in the past that she wants to marry him and have his babies, and Mick is her dream man, Although it appears Chloe thinks Gemma has had a lucky escape, as she said earlier in the episode that she couldn’t understand why a 29-year-old would want to be with someone so much older?

The Only Way is Essex- Joey's date with Sam is literally the Pitts.

Joey took Sam out on a date to the dump on last night’s episode. The blonde store owner was treated to an adventure, Joey style to learn about his life. Mr Essex arrived at Sam’s house announcing they were going on a bike ride. A surprise choice for a guy whose pride and joy is his hair. Obviously no-one told him bike helmets and good hair don’t mix. Sam, who had spent hours getting ready, wasn’t impressed, particularly after he suggested she swap her heels for trainers.

Earlier while getting ready, Sam had told sister Billie her ideal date would be a trip to the theatre in a chauffeur driven car. Joey clearly had other ideas and took her on a points of interest tour, where they visited the local dump. And they say romance is dead? He said that he wanted to share the dump with her as he spent lots of time there as a child collecting materials to make tree-houses.

‘You didn’t do that?’, he said sounding surprised? Sam replied, ‘I went on adventures but not to the tip!’

For the second part of their date, Joey lead Sam to the woods for a picnic of squashed home-made ham and cheese sandwiches, salt and vinegar crisps and Thomas the Tank Engine strawberry yoghurt's, despite Chloe’s warning to stay away from a Thomas the Tank Engine theme. Fortunately he served champagne rather than orange squash.

When he asked her if she was enjoying the date, Sam said, ‘It’s different. I liked the effort you put into the picnic but not the tip.’

‘Am I a better kisser than Mark’, he asked? Sam admitted he was as his kiss had meaning.

While Joey and Sam were out on their date, the other girls- Amy, Maria, Chloe, Jess and Popey, got together for a botox party, the ultimate Essex must-have. But the conversation got heated as Lauren ridiculed Mark’s plans to open a model agency. Jess, who gave her new boobs their first proper outing, defended her brother and told Lauren they should have their own careers, particularly after they get married as they will need the money.

The Only Way is Essex- Arg seeks relationship advice from player Mark- what a mistake.

 James tried to win back Lydia last night after she told him their relationship is over for good.

Arg turned up at her house with a bunch of flowers, only to be turned away by Lyd’s mother Debbie, who told him ‘Lydia doesn’t want to see you. You’re too late.’ ‘It’s never too late if you love someone’, replied James, bless him. So he waited outside the family home for Lydia to return only to suffer another knock back when she told she’s already made her decision and he needs to go away and do some maturing. ‘I can’t be with someone like you anymore’, she said. ‘I’ll prove you wrong’, replied James.

In desperation, he even turned to Mark for relationship advice, who, earlier in the day visited his ex Sam to question her about her kiss with Joey in the pool at Harry’s party. ‘Why, are you jealous’, she said. ‘No, it was like a porn film’, he claimed and asked her for an explanation. ‘It doesn’t need an explanation as I’m single and not waiting around for you anymore’, she said. Meanwhile, Lauren decided to get professional photos done for Mark to hang in his bedroom, after he revealed to her plans to open a glamour model agency. Lauren told him there was no way she would let it happen, and the only girl in his bedroom would be her. Mark was horrified at the thought of having a life-size photo of Lauren in his flat, aka the bachelor pad.

To get their minds off things, Mark and James went to BMW Gemma’s pub quiz. James hoped that Lydia would come and even bought her a drink, but she was out with the girls, ‘Single and ready to mingle’.

‘Some people would say I’ve had a lucky escape from the mother-in-law from hell’ said James. We can’t agree with you more Arg. ‘Forget about Lydia for tonight’, Nanny Pat told him, as she and Lauren joined the boys for the quiz, taking the name Nanny Pat’s Sausage Plaits.

Other teams included, The Hairy Growlers- Harry, Sam and Amy, The Ream Team, with Joey, Chloe and Maria. Chloe told Joey earlier that they had a good chance of winning as Maria has lots of GCSE’s, whilst Joey revealed that he buys trainers a size too small that hurt his feet so the trainers don’t crease, clever?

Bit it was Amy’s team who really struggled with even the simplest questions, such as What class at school would you use a Bunsen burner? And Where’s the longest pier in Essex? ‘Is it the Isle of Wight’, said Amy, these questions are really hard.'

No surprise then that Nanny Pat’s team came in first, followed by the Ream team and the Hairy Growlers.

The Only Way is Essex- the girls put their knowledge of geography to the test.

The girls proved the Essex stereotype to be true last night on the first episode of the new series on ITV2.

Beauty therapist Amy and new character, former playboy bunny Chloe, seemed torn when trying to decide where abouts Kent is in London? Lydia, James’ (Arg) girlfriend, painted her pig- Mr Darcy’s trotters to match her nails, and Sam and her sister opened their new boutique names after women’s privates- Minnie’s.

Unfortunately the boys weren’t much better, with James calling an extractor fan a ‘retractor’, apparently a selling point of the flat he tried to convince Lydia to move into with him, in the same block as best friend Mark, that and modern cupboards, how could a girl resist?

 Spoilt Kirk also shown his true colours, going to the bank of dad for money to buy a new car. Wanting a motor just like his dad’s, his idol, Kirk test drove a BMW and even put in a good word for his father with the saleswoman Gemma, whose description of her ideal man matched his dad perfectly, according to Kirk.

However it seems Mark may be on the verge of turning over a new leaf, after taking wise Nanny Pat’s advice to date only one girl, not three. Meeting at the local swimming pool, Nanny Pat, who donned a multi-colour floral swimming cap, warned Mark off his player lifestyle. And it appeared to work, as Mark told Sam at Sugarhut, after the opening of her boutique, that the pair of them are over as he wants to settle down with Lauren. But will he change his mind as Chloe’s cousin Joey, a mini me, makes a move on his ex Lucy?