TOWIE’s Saffron Lempriere has surprisingly revealed she’d love her former BFF Gemma Collins to return to the show two years after they fell out. However, the reason Saffron wants her frenemy back on the show is pretty savage.
Saffron has said she wants to bring the GC back to the show that made her a household name so they can have a “standoff” – and, frankly, we’d love to see it happen.
It seems the former friends haven’t crossed paths since their fallout, as Saffron admitted she’s been waiting to have it out with Gemma.
When we caught up with Saffron and some of her co-stars to spill their TOWIE secrets recently, we asked which former cast members they want to film with and Saff said, “Oh my god, I’d bring Gemma back so I could have the standoff I’ve been waiting for.”
“Wow. That’s ballsy, that is,” her pal Jordan Brook added, and we agree.
Right, which TOWIE producer do we have to speak to to make this happen?
Saffron and Jordan, as well as Junaid Ahmed and Roman Hackett, also sat down to watch some of the show’s most iconic moments of all time and, of course, you can't think of TOWIE's most iconic moments without thinking of Gemma. The biggest diva in Essex has certainly taken centre stage for some of the ITVBe show's best bits.
So, when Gemma popped up in the clips Saffron was watching, it’s only natural there would be some tension in the air.
Now, let’s cast your minds back to 2012 special The Only Way is Marbs when Gemma, furious that James ‘Arg’ Argent had told the world – well, Essex and all the ITV viewers – about their bedroom antics and confronted him around the pool while the rest of the cast looked on in awe.
"You’ve been going around discussing what happened between us, yeah?”, Gemma told him, before dropping the iconic one-liner (and her pink sarong), "Take a good look at this, you ain't ever gonna get this candy.”
Watching it, Saffron said, “He got the candy, though.”
To be fair, after that Gemma and Arg did have an on-again-off-again thing for the next ten years. So, to be honest, Saf, we know what you mean.
Junaid, on the other hand, was all for it. He said, “I actually love her, she’s iconic.”
WATCH: Saffron spills the tea on Gemma Collins, Mark Wright and more as TOWIE cast react to show's most iconic moments
Saffron has previously opened up about falling out with Gemma, who she once referred to as a "sister". She kept the reasons for their argument schtum, but since lockdown, the two haven’t been on speaking terms.
“Me and Gemma no longer talk. I wish her all the best and that’s it really," she said at the time.
This isn't the first time Saffron has thrown some shade Gemma's way as she addressed their fallout last year on Instagram while answering fans’ assumptions about her.
When one fan sent in the assumption, “You’ve always been friends with Gemma Collins x,” Saffron replied, “Eight years was enough 🤣.”
Ooh, the shade of it all.
When another of her followers made the assumption that she and Gemma weren’t friends anymore, Saffron added, “True. I’ve been asked this about 30 times. No big deal.”
But she didn’t stop spilling the tea there as Saffron later hinted at the real reason she and Gemma had fallen out.
One follower sent in the assumption, “Gemma was the cause of your friendship ending? She seems to lose friends a lot,” to which Saffron responded with a selfie of herself with a sticker saying, “Facts.”
CHECK OUT: Gemma Collins' most diva moments of all time
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1 of 12When Gemma paraded through the Big Brother garden with a Shetland pony
When the Celebrity Big Brother stars were asked what one-off luxury they would like to be treated to in the isolated house, what did Gemma ask for? Contact with her family? Nope. A pamper treatment? Not quite... No, the GC asked for none other than a Shetland pony - which she proceeded to dance with around the garden. While stroking the pony, Gemma exclaimed "I want pink ones with glitter in their hair".
2 of 12When Matt Evers saved Gemma's precious blow-dry from the rain
Matt Evers protects Gemma Collin's fabulous blow-dry whilst leaving himself to become soaked in the rain on the Dancing on Ice red carpet.
3 of 12When Gemma slipped during her Dancing on Ice routine
The 2019 series of Dancing on Ice is the gift that keeps on giving and poor old Gemma had viewers glued to their screens when she tripped over her foot and skidded across the ice. Ouch. The TOWIE queen soon picked herself up and styled through her ice-skating miss-hap. Jason Gardiner reportedly suggested that Gemma's fall was karma for her diva tantrum the week before.
4 of 12When Gemma's entourage fixed her dress on the NTAs red carpet
Can you even call yourself a diva if you don't enlist a personal helper on the red carpet? The GC had her entourage to hand, ready to smooth out any creases in her glamorous dress.
5 of 12When she spent 72 hours in the jungle
Gemma famously lasted just 72 hours in the I'm a Celebrity jungle, but she still managed to make the nation laugh with her outrageous behaviour. The TOWIE star even insisted "People that murdered get treated better than this, and thats the truth. Even a murderer gets fed three times a day."
6 of 12Gemma's infamous candy scene
Ah, the early days of Gemma and Arg's relationship. The GC was filmed in a Marbella special, when she famously told on/off boyfriend Arg "Don't ever disrespect a girl like that again. Take a good look at this, you ain't ever gonna get this candy.", before dropping her throw and strutting away in a black swimsuit.
7 of 12Gemma's friendship with Kim K's BFF
Gemma made pals with no other than Kim K's best-friend, Jonathan Cheban in Big Brother, where she told him "By the time you're finished with me, I'm gonna be a Gem-dashian." The stars have been friends ever since and Jonathan even flies over to the UK to visit Gemma, where the pair go on fancy shopping trips to Harrods together.
8 of 12When she was a total diva in an interview
Anyone else still cringe when they remember that painfully awkward chat between Gemma and an interviewer who hadn't read her book? The GC had a major diva-meltdown when she found out the journalist hadn't seen a copy before holding the interview, thus ending the call, "Darling, don't worry, we're going to get the book publishers to send everyone doing an interview the book. Thank you, bye!"
9 of 12When Gemma went into full GC mode on Jason Gardiner
Dancing on Ice has been full of feisty celeb dramas. Gemma didn't hold back after Jason Gardiner accused of her being lazy. The TOWIE star furiously shouted "Boring!" before yelling, "Don't sell stories on me." Poor Matt Evers couldn't even hide how awkward he felt...
10 of 12When she dumped her date live on Loose Women
Ah, poor Laurence Hearn - the charming man that attempted to win over Gemma, only to be dumped live on Loose Women weeks later. OUCH.
11 of 12Basically, her entire time in the CBB house
Other hilarious moments from Gemma's stint in the Big Brother house included yelling at producers, "I don't need the money! I've got money!". She also got upset when Big Brother failed to provide professional blow-dries: "This is very expensive hair and its all frazzled, because you've only got straighteners in here, you haven't got heated rollers. So, you can pay for me to have a new set of extensions. Straighteners are what weirdos use on their hair."
12 of 12And when she fell down the trap door at the Teen Choice Awards
Talking of Gemma's tumbles - how could anyone forget her iconic fall down the trap door at the BBC1 Radio Teen Choice Awards?