He’s has a £1.6million Essex mansion with a pool, and drives a Lamborghini - now Joey Essex wants someone to share it with, , according to his best mate James ‘Diags’ Bennewith. Dubbed “reality royalty”, the 33-year-old is worth £8million following stints on I’m A Celeb, Celebrity SAS, TOWIE and several dating shows, but is desperate to find The One and start a family “He wants to settle down,” Diags tells the Mirror .
“Our mates are getting married and having kids. He is in that headspace now. He’s like: ‘I’ve got all this stuff, I’ve got my house, but I’ve got no-one to share it with.
I wake up in this house on my own.’ He wants a family - he wants kids. Going on Love Island is him putting that out into the Universe - it’s manifesting.
” Viewers saw Joey speak candidly about losing his mum at the age of 10 to suicide, as he chatted with M&S worker Jess White. “If you lose your mum at a really young age, it’s a big part of your life,” says Diags - Joey’s friend since primary school. “You learn a lot from your mum - emotional insight, how to deal with certain things and he didn’t have that.
“Obviously his dad did an amazing job, but not having a mum there, it’s taken Joey a lot longer to be emotionally intelligent. I’ve known him growing up through that and there were times where he just did not speak about it. It was just unspoken.
Out of respect, nobody spoke about it, nobody brought it up, and I think that suppressed a l.
