James Argent ‘secretly dating mystery girl he met at boxing gym’ after Gemma Collins split & Lydia Bright romance rumour
JAMES Argent has reportedly found love again – a year after splitting from Gemma Collins.
The TV star has been losing weight and has taken up boxing, with sources saying he met his new flame at the gym.
The Towie favourite, who has remained close with his ex Lydia Bright and her parents, is said to be broody after seeing his mates settle down and he now wants to start a family of his own.
A source told New! magazine: “His break-up with Lydia (Bright) hit him hard.
“But now that his recovery is back on track and he’s happy with his weight loss, he’s finally in a good place to start looking for someone to settle down with.
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“He wants what Mark (Wright) and Michelle (Keegan) have, and what Mark’s brother Josh has.”
Arg, who began piling on the pounds in lockdown after kicking his cocaine and booze addiction, says doctors told him he was “on death row”.
He told The Sun in November that it took his mum Patricia breaking down in tears in his bedroom for him to finally seek help.
He said: “Bingeing made me tired and lethargic so I’d make plans every day to meet friends, do a job or achieve something.
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“But after I binged, I was so exhausted I’d end up just staying in bed and not leaving the house.
“Then one afternoon my mum found me in bed and started crying.
“She said, ‘I don’t recognise my son any more.’
“That was a big wake-up call. Also, I reached the heaviest I’ve ever been in the height of the pandemic and doctors said I was dicing with death because I’ve got bad asthma and was morbidly obese, which was the worst possible combination if I was to catch Covid.
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“I could have been a goner, so I just knew I had to do something.”
Arg had a major stomach op in April to limit his food consumption.
After a successful spell in rehab in Thailand at the beginning of 2020, he replaced the drink and drugs with junk food.