Mark Wright: The jungle helped me get over Lauren

Mark Wright: The jungle helped me get over Lauren
Mark Wright: The jungle helped me get over Lauren (Image credit: Doug Peters)

Mark Wright has said taking part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! helped him to get over ex Lauren Goodger. The Only Way Is Essex couple had been engaged but had a dramatic split in August. And after roughing it in the Australian jungle on the ITV1 reality show, Mark told The Sun he has moved on. Mark said: "The jungle has helped me get over Lauren. "That is behind me and in the past. She is a special person in my life, but right now I want to be on my own. I am looking forward to the future. "The jungle could have gone one of two ways for me - I could have gone in there and thought, 'I want her back'. But it didn't, it did the opposite and I realised I had made the right decision and I want to move on." The 24-year-old Essex lad insists there is no future for him with Australian model Emily Scott, with whom he flirted in the jungle. He said: "Emily is a lovely person and a very pretty girl, but there is no romantic interest there for me and I am not interested in starting a relationship with her. "When you are in the jungle you have a bit of a friendly flirt, but that is as far as it went. "I am single and want to be on my own. I won't deny she is a good catch but that is not how I feel about her."

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.