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Gemma Collins reveals ‘real reason’ Joey Essex’s relationship with Love Island’s Samantha WON’T work out
The GC has spoken out about her ex-Towie co-star's villa romance
GEMMA Collins has claimed she knows why Joey Essex's relationship with Love Island star Samantha WON'T work out.
The 43-year-old spoke out about her former Towie co-star who is looking for love in the villa this summer.
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Despite being coupled up with scouser Samantha, Joey appears to be hesitant about rushing into anything - and Gemma thinks she's worked out the 'real' reason.
Speaking to The Sun at the book launch of Steve Bennett's Fibre First Diet, Gemma said: "Love will happen for Joey. I know this is going to sound really cliche, but in order to find that love, you do have to love yourself.
"It happened for me when I was so good in my own skin, I'd worked up to where I wanted to work to.
"I was so independent, I didn't need no one and that is when love come for me out of the blue.
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"But even if you don't find love and even If you want to go through this life without a partner, that's OK, too.
"We're all conditioned to think that finding someone is going to make us happy.
"The real answer to that is you've got to be happy with yourself and once you master that, then love will come in or you will be fine in life."
Gemma - who is engaged to be married to her other half Rami Hawash in 2026 - added: "I love Ramy.
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"Ramy loves me, but if Ramy walks out of my life tomorrow or I walk out of his, we still exist as humans."
Joey, 33, says he's finally ready to marry and have children.
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It's after he started going to therapy to deal with the death of his mother, who took her own life when he was just ten years old.
In his heartbreaking BBC Three documentary Joey realised the grief is killing his dream of starting a family and finding true love.
Breaking down in tears, he said at the time: “My mum loved me, but she left me. I just think to myself: If she loved me that much, why would she leave me?
“I’ve had loads of relationships but I always end up pushing them away.
“Imagine if I was with someone and I had kids with them and I really did love that person and then she left me. I wouldn’t know what to do. I’m already thinking we’re gonna break up before we’re together. I’m pushing it away."
Since shooting to fame on ITVBe’s The Only Way Is Essex in 2011, Joey has been romantically linked to pop star Rita Ora, Towie's Sam Faiers, model Lorena Medina and reality favourite Stephanie Pratt.
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