TOWIE cast: Amy Childs is 'doing Essex proud'

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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TOWIE cast: Amy Childs is 'doing Essex proud'
TOWIE cast: Amy Childs is 'doing Essex proud' (Image credit: NICKY JOHNSTON)

Amy Childs' The Only Way Is Essex co-stars have put their weight behind her to win Celebrity Big Brother, despite losing her to the rival reality show. The glamorous beautician threw in the TOWIE towel before entering the Big Brother house, but her cousin Harry Derbidge and fellow cast members Sam Faiers and Lauren Pope are rooting for Amy to triumph in the Channel 5 show. Harry, 17, revealed: "She is doing amazingly, I'm so proud of her. I think she's going to win it... she will win it!" Sam, 20, added: "Amy's doing really well, she's doing really good. I think she'll be brilliant, hopefully she'll win and do the Essex posse proud." But the glamour model admitted she'd feel the absence of her pal in the next series of TOWIE. "The show must go on, but we will miss her," she said. Co-star Lauren Pope said she'd take some persuading to enter the Big Brother house. "I'd have to think very long and hard about it".

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.