Lauren Goodger and Mark Wright split a while back now but even though they’re not a couple anymore it seems she still thinks they’re paired up in one way or another.
Lauren has told mates they have a really tight bond and are living sort of parallel lives – even though they’ve been apart for five years.
The two of them had an on-off relationship that lasted a decade but they finally called it a day once and for all – after a brief engagement – in 2012.
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Mark is now married to his TV love Michelle Keegan, 29, while Lauren is smitten as a kitten to her jail-bird hottie Joey Morrisson.
But Lauren’s friends say she is telling everyone that she a lot of similarities to her ex Mark.
For one: he’s living alone most of the time because Michelle is often away filming her BBC show Our Girl.
In Lauren’s case, it’s hard to spend quality time with Joey considering the fact he’s in the slammer.
That’s enough to tell Lauren that she and Mark are kindred spirits.
“She’s telling friends how they’re both in long-distant relationships,” the source says.
It might be a bit of a stretch to be honest Lauren and Mark isn’t massively impressed either.
“Mark couldn’t believe his ears,” the source told The Sun.
“He thinks Lauren lives in her own little world sometimes and pointed out there’s a big difference between her man being banged up and his wife working in a different country”.
Whether all this is entirely true remains to be seen as Lauren says that a lot of gossip around her isn’t true.
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But if she is still thinking about her ex, maybe it’s best for Lauren to stay focused on her new – though maybe less eligible – man.
He’s is serving jail time for serious crimes – and the pair are rumoured to be planning to wed upon his release, even though they are yet to I’ve together.