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The Only Way is Essex

October 2023

  • Georgia Harrison

    The G2 interview
    ‘I stood up and fought back’: how revenge porn survivor Georgia Harrison got her abuser jailed

    The reality star’s life was almost destroyed when an ex secretly filmed them having sex and posted it online. He went to prison – and she waived her right to anonymity to help the many women similarly affected

September 2023

  • The birth of reality TV … Big Brother.

    How Big Brother changed TV for ever: ‘There was a massive idea at its core – watch and judge’

    The show that kicked off the reality TV boom is coming back – but should it? The creators and stars of the original series consider the impact of a cultural disruptor

July 2023

  • Josh Wright (left) and Mark in 1995

    Flashback
    Mark and Josh Wright look back: ‘We still wear budgie smugglers. Our wives laugh at us for it’

    Mark Wright and his brother Josh on Towie, football and family bonds

December 2022

  • Yomi Adegoke

    Reality checked
    ‘There is nothing on TV more disorientating’: the brilliant weirdness of the reality TV Christmas special

    Yomi Adegoke
    From festive insults to ropey charity singalongs – all clearly shot at the wrong time of year – seasonal specials from the likes of Towie are a comical joy. Hopefully their days aren’t numbered …

January 2022

  • Towie being filmed in Brentwood in 2019.

    Out with Towie as Essex tries to shed its brash image

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Give me the cheeky, rackety Essex I love over a snobby rebrand any day

    Gaby Hinsliff

June 2021

  • Joey Essex visits the house where he grew up in Joey Essex: Grief and Me.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Joey Essex on coping with his mum’s death

    The Towie star reveals an unseen side to himself, as he explores the effects that his mother’s suicide had on him. Plus: Theo Paphitis returns to Dragons’ Den. Here’s what to watch this evening

January 2021

  • Norcross, whose son was also a cast member, left The Only Way Is Essex in 2013.

    Mick Norcross, former The Only Way Is Essex star, dies aged 57

    Current and former Towie stars pay tribute as police say death is not being treated as suspicious

December 2020

  • Gemma Collins,

    'Essex girl' removed from dictionary following campaign

    Expression deemed offensive by campaign group Essex Girls Liberation Front

October 2020

  • This is Essex video - Tabila Tejpar, racing driver

    Essex stars help tourist board challenge stereotype

  • Yomi Adegoke

    Reality checked
    The only way is out of Essex: is it time for Towie to bow out?

    Yomi Adegoke

February 2020

  • ‘I had to develop a thick skin’: Gemma Collins on Towie, trolls and life as a tabloid underdog

    'People think I bathe in asses' milk': how Towie's Gemma Collins became a podcast hit

    She went from selling cars to starring on reality TV – and now fronts a smash-hit podcast. But 10 years in the tabloid line of fire hasn’t been easy

November 2019

  • Close-up of Gemma Collins's heavily made-up, grinning face and very blonde hair

    Sunday with Gemma Collins: ‘I probably haven’t made my own bed for 10 years’

    The Towie star on hot milk, perfect spuds and a clean duvet cover

July 2019

  • A green man on a pedestrian road crossing in Basildon, Essex

    The Audio Long Read
    The invention of Essex: how a county became a caricature – podcast

    From Loadsamoney and ‘Basildon man’ to Towie and Brexit – Essex has long been held up as both the authentic England and the crudest, stupidest symbol of Englishness

August 2018

  • 'Evil Monkeys' TV Show, Series 1, Episode 1, UK - 02 Aug 2018<br>Editorial Use Only. No merchandising Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (9772035f) The Monkeys. 'Evil Monkeys' TV Show, Series 1, Episode 1, UK - 02 Aug 2018 Evil Monkeys, is a British ITV game show in which contestants are trapped by apes on a Japanese island and forced into a number of challenges. The apes are looking to understand what makes humans tick. Three celebrities take part in the tasks. One of them cannot see, one cannot hear, and one cannot talk.

    Evil Monkeys: will ITV2's bananas new show be the next Love Island?

    How best to follow up the most popular series of the summer? With a reality game show where simians electrocute Towie stars, of course

September 2017

  • Gemma Collins

    Saturday interview
    Towie’s Gemma Collins: ‘I felt more beautiful before I went on TV. I get so much criticism now’

  • Celebrity Big Brother 2016<br>Channel 5 undated handout photo of Megan McKenna, one of the contestants in this year's Celebrity Big Brother. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday January 5, 2016. See PA story SHOWBIZ Brother. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Ford/Channel 5/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Pass notes
    How reality star Megan McKenna knocked Taylor Swift off the top of the charts

April 2017

  • Beech trees in autumn, Epping Forest: ‘Most of Ashon’s yomps through the woods are failures.’

    Strange Labyrinth by Will Ashon review – summoning the spirits of Epping Forest

    A cast of highwaymen, psychics and joggers populates Will Ashon’s glorious foray into the London woodland

October 2016

  • Gemma Collins

    Lost in showbiz
    The only way is up: the rise of Gemma Collins

    The Towie star has explained the news to Sky’s Kay Burley. Just think what else she could do on TV …

August 2016

  • Whitney Port, Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Audrina Patridge in The Hills

    The Hills 10 years on: a post-truth show that changed reality TV for ever

    With its aspirational glitz and structured storylines, the Hollywood -based show cemented the template for Towie, Made in Chelsea and Keeping Up with the Kardashians – and ensured that we could never completely trust reality TV again
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