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Anyone who’s been watching the latest series of TOWIE will know that Chloe Brockett is the source of most of the drama – and that includes the scenes she isn’t even in!

Unsurprisingly, her summer fling with James “Lockie” Lock, 34, has left her castmates reeling, with everyone keen
to tell the 20-year-old brunette what they think of her.

But like the trooper she is, Chloe is taking all the flak on the chin and backing herself at every turn. At the time of interviewing her, we’ve seen her get it in the neck from Liam “Gatsby” Blackwell, be interrogated by Saffron Lempriere and witnessed Lockie telling his mates that it “was never going to be serious” between them. Charming!

Here, Chloe, who has previously dated Love Island star Jack Fincham, 30, tells us that she thinks Lockie and his ex Yazmin Oukhellou will end up back together, how she loves being the centre of attention and why she doesn’t know what Pete Wicks’s problem is…

Hi, Chloe. How does it feel to be in the middle of all the drama?

I feel like since I first started on TOWIE I’ve constantly been in the middle of the drama. It’s quite nice because even when I’m not in the scenes, I’m still the centre of them!

How did you feel when you saw Lockie tell Chloe [Sims] and James “Diags” Bennewith that his mind wasn’t totally in it when you were together?

It wasn’t the greatest comment he could have made but he was probably trying to save face with his friends and his ex-girlfriend, who I’m sure he’ll get back with. At the end of the day, it was just sex and you don’t really need your mind for sex. He hasn’t got much of a brain anyway.

Why do you think him and Yaz will get back together?

They’re quite well suited, aren’t they? I don’t know anyone else who would put up with either of them.

Some of the new series was filmed away from Essex in Dorset’s Sandbanks. How was that?

It was intense. When you’re in Essex you can go home and be with family, and it’s back to normal life. But in Sandbanks it was 24/7 TOWIE.

Saffron gave you a bit of a grilling about Lockie at the party with Amy Childs, didn’t she?

She’s always got her shovel out, hasn’t she? I felt like it was pretty pointless to ask those questions because we’re not friends and we’re not going to be. I feel like she was trying her best to befriend me again. And the answer’s no from me! I found it very strange that she had these questions about Lockie. Maybe she wants to get with him herself!?

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Are you still good friends with Amy?

Yeah. If the questions had been coming from Amy, I’d have been a lot more open. But it was coming from Saffron, which is why I was so stand-offish. It’s none of Saffron’s business!

Your row with Gatsby when you confronted him for saying that Lockie was “cringed out” by you was pretty dramatic…

Gatsby has turned really bitter lately and I can’t work out why. He seems to feel like everyone is against him. I really don’t think that he would have been as rude if it was me with a group of people walking over!

He keeps saying he’s heard things about you through the grapevine…

That grapevine works both ways and I’ve heard a few things about him that people will see in upcoming episodes.

Ooh, can you give us any hints at all?

All I’m saying is everything isn’t as rosy as it seems.

At the end of the first episode we saw you call Lockie and tell him that you needed to have a chat. What happened?

We met up to talk it out, as the conversations we had privately were different to the ones he was having with other people. He was like, “I would never let anyone speak about you. You and I have a lovely relationship and friendship.” Then to everyone else, he was saying it was a mistake. A mistake is once, not twice! But sleeping with Lockie definitely wasn’t my finest moment either. We cleared the air but moving forward, is Lockie going to be someone I speak to? Probably not. What have me and a 34-year-old got in common anyway? Not much!

You said you’ve met up away fromTOWIEas friends and that there’s no awkwardness…

It’s easy to go with the opinions of the cast as their general opinions of me aren’t very nice, so I’d imagine Lockie got swept away with it. I know Pete’s been horrible about me, which is bizarre behaviour considering I’ve never commented about Pete at all.

Pete doesn’t seem like your biggest fan…

I don’t know why, really. I’ve never said anything about Pete before.

Lockie’s ex Yaz is coming back to the show too. Will it be handbags at dawn?

There was a lot of talk that she’d come back and confront me but she actually didn’t. I haven’t heard from her at all. We’re still blocked from each other. She’s been busy in Dubai and has a new relationship.

How did you react to the recent cast cull?

Obviously Joey [Turner] left off his own back but I was really shocked about Courtney [Green] and Chloe [Meadows] being fired. TOWIE has been a massive part of their lives for six years. But they weren’t completely gutted. They’ve both got businesses and they’re both successful away from the show anyway. They were just sad because they loved spending time with us.

The Only Way Is Essex airs on Sundays at 9pm on ITVBe and 7am on ITV Hub

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