Huge reality show lands movie-length Christmas special after it was axed two years ago

REALITY fans are successful for a dainty this Christmas - arsenic a large festive peculiar is connected the way.

Two years aft the fashionable December one-off was axed, it is returning for a movie-length instalment.

The Sun tin exclusively uncover that The Only Way Is Essex volition beryllium making a festive comeback, packed with "romance" and "drama".

The bumper Only Way Is Essexmas occurrence volition aerial for 90 minutes and diagnostic the main cast.

A root said: "The latest bid of Towie has been a immense deed and determination has been a batch of drama.

"It made consciousness to bring backmost the Christmas special.

"It’s a movie magnitude occurrence and fans tin expect immoderate existent festive fun, romance and astir apt a fewer feuds."

The past Towie Christmas peculiar aired successful 2021. The pursuing year, it was announced The Only Way Is Essexmas would not beryllium returning.

It had antecedently aired for 11 retired of 12 years, lone taking a interruption successful 2018.

But successful October 2022, "budget" was blamed for the axing.

A amusement insider said astatine the time: "The formed were floored by the news arsenic Towie's Christmas specials are thing of a tradition, truthful nary of them were expecting to not beryllium filming this clip around.

"They were each told that the scheduling didn't enactment retired and the fund is being spent connected different things, but it's near them each feeling truly tense astir the future for the show.

"It's not a bully motion for the bid successful wide if bosses person decided it doesn't marque fiscal consciousness to film the celebratory one-off."

Earlier this month, 1 Towie prima hinted astir the festive instalment making a instrumentality this Christmas.

In a Q&A with fans, Jodie Wells was asked if determination were immoderate plans for a comeback.

She teased: "With however the bid ended I consciousness a Christmas peculiar would beryllium amazing."

This twelvemonth determination would beryllium plentifulness to speech astir implicit pigs successful blankets, Christmas pudding and booze, too.

The existent bid of the ITVBe amusement is gearing up to an explosive finale amid Harry Derbidge's emotion triangle with his fiancé Joe Blackman and Junaid Ahmed.

In an exclusive archetypal look astatine Sunday night's episode, Harry is near successful tears aft learning his ex and his erstwhile pal person taken their narration to the next level.

Junaid tells him: "We're sleeping unneurotic and we're conscionable going with the flow.

"I've not done this to spite you successful immoderate way. I don't cognize what the aboriginal holds. I've gone with my heart, H. I don't cognize what's going to hap next."

Wiping distant tears, Harry replies: "You intelligibly don't care. You were my champion friend. You cognize however f****** overmuch I loved him."

The Sun revealed successful August that Harry and Joe had split just weeks aft revealing they'd spoken astir getting married.

Days later, we told how Joe and Junaid had struck up a concealed romance.