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Mind your language

Does Joey Essex know what ‘reem’ actually means?

Its history is long — and not entirely pleasant

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

Joey Essex is a celebrity who appeared in the ‘scripted reality’ programme The Only Way is Essex, named not after him but the well-known county. He is 24, born in Southwark, and his main attractions are good looks, cheerfulness and stupidity. He claims never to have learnt to tell the time or to blow his nose.

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