The Lauren 影響! Goodger's return to TOWIE results in show's most watched 開始する,打ち上げる episode in three years

Lauren Goodger's return to The Only Way Is Essex has resulted in the show's biggest 開始する,打ち上げる episode since 2021.

The reality 星/主役にする, 37, is 支援する on the show that first 開始する,打ち上げるd her to fame?almost seven years after her 出口.?

The first episode of series 32 began 公表/放送 on March 24 and Lauren's return attracted 407,000 テレビ視聴者s to the ITVBe show.

Additionally, the new series has been streamed 1.2million times on ITVX as テレビ視聴者s tune in for more romance and 演劇.

By comparison, the first episode of series 31 attracted 300,000 テレビ視聴者s, the first of series 30 was watched by 319,000 テレビ視聴者s and the first of series 29 got 397,000.??

Lauren Goodger's return to The Only Way Is Essex has resulted in the show's biggest launch episode since 2021

Lauren Goodger's return to The Only Way Is Essex has resulted in the show's biggest 開始する,打ち上げる episode since 2021

The reality star, 37, is back on the show that first launched her to fame almost seven years after her exit (pictured with Mark Wright in 2011)

The reality 星/主役にする, 37, is 支援する on the show that first 開始する,打ち上げるd her to fame almost seven years after her 出口 (pictured with 示す Wright in 2011)?

Lauren spoke about how happy she was to be 支援する with the Essex ギャング(団) during an 外見 on This Morning.

'It feels weird because it's so long ago but coming 支援する to the show it feels like I never left,' she told Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond on the ITV show.

'I feel like the same Lauren again, it's really weird.'

In the time Lauren was away from the show, she became a mother to Larose, two, and Lorena who sadly passed away just after birth.?

On the day of Lorena's funeral in August 2022, Lauren's ex-boyfriend Charles Drury was (刑事)被告 of attacking her.?He was 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with 強襲,強姦 and engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour に向かって his ex, which he 否定するd.

Of why she decided to return, she said: 'Becoming a mum, you sort of lose your own 身元, I went through a very traumatic time, sort of lost myself 完全に. I was in a 傷をいやす/和解させるing 過程, which I still am but all I could be was a mum, there was nothing else.

'I wasn't 利益/興味d in work, but now this is a new year and I feel I 設立する who I am again. I'd 完全に lost myself but I've come 支援する home.'???

Last year it was 報告(する)/憶測d that Lauren had been approached to return to The Only Way Is Essex as bosses try and 支持を得ようと努める her 支援する to the show and she 発表するd in December she was coming 支援する.?

The first episode of series 32 began airing on March 24 and Lauren's return attracted 407,000 viewers to the ITVBe show

The first episode of series 32 began 公表/放送 on March 24 and Lauren's return attracted 407,000 テレビ視聴者s to the ITVBe show

Lauren spoke about how happy she was to be back with the Essex gang during an appearance on This Morning, saying it feels like she never left (pictured with Amy Childs)

Lauren spoke about how happy she was to be 支援する with the Essex ギャング(団) during an 外見 on This Morning, 説 it feels like she never left (pictured with Amy Childs)?

On having the cameras に引き続いて their lives, Lauren said, 'It's all we know, really, It's where we started, I was only young, 21/22' (Pictured with 示す Wright, Same Faiers and Kirk Norcross in 2011)

It is an exciting time for Lauren, whose last 外見 on the show was a 簡潔な/要約する return in 2016.

Lauren was part of the 初めの 2010 line-up for the show, which 焦点(を合わせる)d on her long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 関係 with 示す Wright, and left in 2012 after their break up in series six.

示す is now married to actress Michelle Keegan, and the two have been together for over ten years.

She returned 簡潔に in 2015 for The Only Way Is Essexmas and, looking to the 未来, said she wants to '会合,会う up with Amy Childs and go for lunch with the kids!'

Speaking of how her life has changed since her TOWIE days as she is now a mum, she said of her daughter Larose to 承認する!: 'I am 絶対 obsessed with her.

'She's beautiful. When she wakes up in the morning, even if it's 5am, I'm like, 'Baby, kiss Mummy,' and she kisses me. She's so affectionate and so clever.

'She's not in nursery, but we do a lot of playgroups. I don't have a nanny and have no help at all.'