FRANKIE Essex is best known for her rise to fame on reality show Towie. While on the programme, she starred alongside her fellow celebrity brother Joey Essex who has now entered Love Island as a bombshell . 2 Frankie is Joey Essex's sister Who is Frankie Essex? Frankie Essex is the sister of Love Island's Joey Essex .
She first appeared on Towie in 2011 before waving goodbye to the show in 2013. The duo starred alongside their cousins Chloe , Frankie , Demi and Charlie Sims but they're also no longer on the series. At the age of just 13 Frankie's mum tragically killed herself.
Frankie and Joey were raised by their father Donny following the tragedy. When did Frankie Essex join Towie? Frankie has been in and out of The Only Way is Essex so many times you would think she was doing the hokey cokey. Frankie joined Towie as a background character in series two in 2011.
She was quickly promoted to a main character and shared many storylines with her brother Joey. Joey Essex talks about the heartbreak of losing his mother For much of her time on the show Frankie was dating John Lyons, who didn't feature, so she rarely had a romantic storyline. Although Little Chris did make a failed attempt to ask her out in series five.
She also had a run in with club-promoter Jamie Reed who claimed to have had sex with her in a one-night-stand. But the distasteful comments didn't go unpunished as Joey leapt to Frankie's defence and the series ended with Frankie throwing a drink at a red-faced Jami.
