The Only Way is Essexmas

The Essex gang were back for an hour long Christmas special; The Only Way is Essexmas. The programme featured lots of  festive fun with a Christmas lights competition between the Wright’s and the Bloor’s, along with the usual Essex drama which featured a showdown between Lucy Mecklenburgh and Mario Falcone’s short time fling Pascal. There was also a heated argument between best friends Gemma and Bobby and an emotional farewell to Lucy Mecklenburgh as she shared her final moments on the show with her ex Mario.

The friendly rivalry continued between Elliot Wright and Lewis Bloor as their families took part in a Christmas lights competition to see who had the best lights in the village. Both families had an extravagant presentation of their Xmas lights, whilst all the Essex gang gathered around to see the show. The Bloor’s became the clear winners with their beautiful Narnia themed Christmas lights, while the Wrights also had a great display of lights. 

The Bloor’s Narnia themed lights.

The Wrights Christmas lights. 

The Xmas special programme also saw a silly tiff between Gemma and Bobby as Gemma was angry that Bobby went with Chloe and Lauren Pope to help out at a care home and pamper the elderly women.

Gemma said to bobby that he didn’t do the right thing by going with the girls that didn’t like his best friend, but bobby defended himself by saying that he went to please the elderly women it had nothing to do with who he went with. As ever Gemma was being a Grinch on Christmas!

The most emotional and shocking scene on The Only Way is Essexmas was Mario and Lucy’s encounter. As I mentioned in my Towie final blog post I was very much looking forward to Mario and Lucy getting back together in the Christmas special, however this dream was crushed by their twitter argument.

In the Xmas special, at the Wrights house during the lights competition, Mario and Lucy went to the back of the house to speak about their feelings and where they stand. Mario again tried to get Lucy back and explained that the ball was in her court but she said that she needed to get away from Essex and the Essex gang to focus on herself and to get over Mario. They shared a farewell kiss and hug before Lucy walked away from Mario and the rest of the Essex crew, but not before giving it all one final glance back. So emosh! 😦 

Once the programme finished Mario tweeted that it was a “huge shame” to see Lucy leave Towie.  Lucy also tweeted to her fans and followers thanking them for supporting her throughout the show, and said she was “proud” to be part of such a successful show.