JOEY Essex comes face-to-face with his ex girlfriend Grace Jackson as she enters the villa as a new bombshell. In a preview clip at the end of Thursday's episode, Joey was given the shock of his life when the model walked into the villa . The ex-Towie star, 33, could be seen gasping when he recognised the blonde beauty from a distance.
He then whispered to fellow Islander Sean: "I used to see that girl." Grace's arrival is surely going to ruffle feathers with Joey's new love interest Samantha Kenny. Grace is said to have dated Joey for six weeks earlier this year but it ended badly when he abruptly called a halt to it.
Grace is heading into the villa to get answers out of him. And it comes after Joey admitted tonight that he's not "closed off" to getting to know new bombshells, despite him and Samantha growing closer over the last two weeks and enjoying first date this evening. Before entering the villa, Grace revealed the real reason she's signing up for the ITV2 dating show.
She said: "In my day and age, you don’t meet people on face value, it’s all off Instagram,Twitter and dating apps. Everything’s online! "I’m excited to get to know someone on face value, and be somewhere where you’re forced to have a conversation and be a bit more open. "This is something that would push me out of my comfort zone, I don’t really date a lot.
I get myself in situationships with people I know that I shouldn’t give my time to." Grace said she'll win over a fella with her "down.