Lauren Goodger SLAMS claims she is plotting revenge on Lucy Mecklenburgh for dating ex Mark Wright by flirting with Ryan Thomas on I’m A Celeb

LAUREN Goodger has slammed claims she is plotting revenge on Lucy Mecklenburgh for dating ex Mark Wright by flirting with Ryan Thomas on I'm A Celebrity.

The reality star faced accusations she was planning to get her own back on her former Towie co-star, but has now branded the claims "absolute rubbish".

Lucy and Mark got together in 2011 after Lauren broke up with the TV hunk – and she was left furious over the love affair.

A new report this week suggested Lauren planned to go down Down Under and make a play for Lucy’s new man, Ryan, who’s also rumoured to be joining the I'm A Celeb line-up later this month.

A source told Closer magazine: "Lauren's never got over Lucy's 'affair', as she called it, with Mark, and has held a grudge ever since.

"As soon as she saw Ryan was rumoured to join her in the jungle, she saw it as an opportunity to give Lucy a taste of her own medicine."

"She's got no serious plans to steal Ryan, but she would like Lucy to realise how humiliating it felt for her when she was linked to Mark.”

But a representative for Lauren - who’s single again after splitting from boyfriend Joey Morrison in the summer – has denied the claims.

They told the : "This is absolute rubbish and no truth in any of it!"

Lucy’s romance with former Coronation Street star Ryan seems to get be getting serious – she’s reportedly met his nine-year-old daughter Scarlett from his relationship with Tina O’Brien.

Mark - who's now married to actress Michelle Keegan and working in Los Angeles on US TV show Extra - has previously revealed he split from Lauren after she was seen kissing another man in a nightclub.