Towie legend drops biggest hint yet that she’s returning to ITVBe show – revealing secret meeting with bosses
TOWIE legend Lauren Goodger has dropped the biggest hint yet that she’s making an epic comeback to the ITVBe show – revealing secret meeting with bosses.
The reality star, 37, who shot to fame in 2010 as one of the original cast members of The Only Way Is Essex, said she has something to offer the new cast and would be the agony aunt of Essex.
It’s after reports that her close pals Amy Childs, Junaid Ahmed and Chloe Brockett – saying she feels in a “good place” and is “ready to take on different challenges after a difficult year”.
Lauren said close pals Amy Childs, Junaid Ahmed and Chloe Brockett are desperate to see her return.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Lauren said: “I feel like now I’m starting to come out a bit and going out to events. It’s so weird for me because I want to go back on Towie, Junaid’s [Ahmed] my friend, Chloe Brockett’s my friend, Amy Childs was like ‘Lauren, please come back’.
“You know why I’d do Towie, because I’m not in that busy lifestyle. Towie is my home, it’s easy, it’s good money.
“I’m in Chigwell, I’m in the heart of Essex, that’s where the money is.
“I speak to Junaid, he’s down the road from me. I speak to Amy. I’d never rule it out.”
She then revealed: “I know the producers, I’ve met them,” and added: “I should go back.”
When asked if fans can expect to see Lauren bringing the drama, she said: “No, I’d bring the mum life, the mature. I’d tell them off, like ‘this is what you do in a relationship, this is what you don’t do’.
“I’ve been there, I’ve done it. Like Dan and Amber, it’s like watching me and Mark.”
Meanwhile, Lauren also opened up about the challenges of being a single mum to two-year-old daughter Larose, who she shares with builder ex Charles Drury, 25.
Speaking about being a single mum, Lauren said: “It’s the scariest but amazing thing I’ve ever done.
“But I’m very much hands on, on my own.
“I’m obsessed with her [Larose], she’s so affectionate, she’s so clever, she’s so beautiful.
“She’s two-years-old and knows the whole alphabet, the colours, she says to me and be like ‘mummy, what you doing’. She’s only two and people say that she sounds four. She’s so clever, I just want the best for her, everything I didn’t have, I want her to have.”
The Essex babe said she had a very difficult time last year after her baby daughter Lorena tragically died in July 2022 after she was born with her umbilical cord tied around her neck.
TV favourite Lauren said she struggled to balance her work life after the heartbreak and would stay indoors most nights with Larose.
She said she is not quite ready to jump back into the dating scene but admitted she has high hopes of becoming a “rich housewife” and have more kids.
“I’ve got loads of offers, lovely DMs, lovely messages. But not yet babe. I’ve had footballers, boxers but I can’t say,” she told us at the Magic Mike press night on Tuesday evening.
“I feel like right now, I’ve just come out, I haven’t drunk alcohol in about a month, I’m so boring.
“But I’m in love with my daughter, I worry a lot. I lost a daughter, so for Larose I always want to get home, cook dinner. But that’s why I need to relax now.
“I’m very much in the limelight but I choose not to, perhaps because I stay in the house all the time.
“I’ve been through a lot and people are like ‘I really want to work with Lauren but is she okay? And I’m like ‘I’m okay’, I’m living’.
“Without Larose, I wouldn’t have been okay but she’s kept me functioning.
“I do think I’m coming back. I couldn’t do anything last year, I cancelled a lot of things.”
She added: “I want to get married and have more children and be a housewife but a rich one.
“No one on the radar yet but I will. I’ve had four boyfriends my whole life, I don’t sleep around.
“I’m looking for someone loyal, kind, happy, funny. I actually don’t care about looks no more, I really don’t.
“My friends say ‘get on Raya, get on Raya’, my friend’s added me, so lets see.”