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"Lauren Goodger has chatted to Digital Spy about ex Mark Wright, being booted off Dancing on Ice, her frosty relationship with former TOWIE stars and her new tell-all book. Speaking about Mark initially trying to keep her off the reality show, she said: &amp;quot;He didn&amp;#039;t want me to go on it - it was more about him. He wanted to be the celebrity and me be the stay-at-home wife.  &amp;quot;If I wasn&amp;#039;t on it, he wouldn&amp;#039;t be where he is now. The whole show was about our relationship - the dramas, the split-ups, the engagement. What would he have been filming? He wants to be the next James Bond. Could he be? No. Maybe an Essex one.&amp;quot;  In her new book Secrets Of An Essex Girl, Lauren speaks of her friendship with Jade Goody who thought Mark was &amp;#039;an arsehole&amp;#039;. Having fallen pregnant with Mark&amp;#039;s baby and going through a termination, Jade - who married Mark&amp;#039;s best friend Jack Tweed - told her: &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s been shagging other girls.&amp;quot; Lauren told DS: &amp;quot;I was at their wedding. We&amp;#039;d have girly chats about Mark and she&amp;#039;d say he was no good and to get out of it. She went through the same things...&amp;quot;   Recently appearing on Dancing on Ice, Lauren said she was &amp;#039;gutted&amp;#039; to be the second celebrity kicked off the show. She explained: &amp;quot;My fans are a small majority of the show - I&amp;#039;ve got one million Twitter followers, but it wasn&amp;#039;t strong enough to keep me in.&amp;quot; Talking about judge Jason Gardiner who likened her to a &amp;#039;walrus on ice&amp;#039;, she said: &amp;quot;Jason&amp;#039;s comments were harsh. He always says things out of line and I laughed it off, but if I&amp;#039;d taken things seriously it would have been really upsetting - but you&amp;#039;ve just got to take him for what he is. He thinks he&amp;#039;s the Simon Cowell of DOI.&amp;quot; On another frosty relationship with Mark&amp;#039;s ex, TOWIE star Lucy Mecklenburgh, who she recently got in a Twitter spat with, she said: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t care what she&amp;#039;s got to say. She&amp;#039;s probably trying to jump on the bandwagon with it. But it&amp;#039;s my book and my views, and I&amp;#039;m entitled to them.&amp;quot;   Having made friends with Katie Price after meeting in a nightclub, she agrees her own situation is similar to that of Katie and Peter Andre. Lauren said: &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s made out to be the bad one, like me. We&amp;#039;ve got a lot in common. &amp;quot;If she has a wedding in the UK, she&amp;#039;s asked me to be her bridesmaid and I&amp;#039;ve said yes. Kieran&amp;#039;s lovely. It was all very quick but sometimes things are.&amp;quot; Denying any surgery rumours, she said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve not had any lipo and I&amp;#039;ve never had my lips done. I had permanent lip liner, but no surgery.&amp;quot; And on her weight - which is often commented on - she said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not underweight and I&amp;#039;m not overweight. I&amp;#039;m a normal girl. I put pics of myself on Twitter to show people what I look like. I get ready and go out, and feel good about myself regardless of what people say about me.&amp;quot;   Lauren auditioned to be on The X Factor when she was 18 with girlband Ruby Blue which included ex Mark&amp;#039;s sister Jessica. She said of the experience: &amp;quot;I was 18 and we sang Whitney&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Wanna Dance With Somebody&amp;#039;. We got down to the last ten in the groups - one before the Judges&amp;#039; Houses.&amp;quot; Asked if she would sing for DS, she replied: &amp;quot;No! I was a lot more confident then. I wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to get that far now - the competition is a lot better.&amp;quot; Lauren told us that Jessica Wright split the band up and formed her own group. She said: &amp;quot;I was upset at the time, but she moved on. They went back and auditioned but didn&amp;#039;t get through. Jess wanted to try to make it and she did everything to get where she wanted, but what could I do? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d love to be an X Factor judge. It would be the best job ever.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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