Lucy Mecklenburgh (born 24 August 1991) is an English television personality and model known for her appearances in the
ITV2
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a ...
reality series ''
The Only Way Is Essex'' from 2010 to 2013. She later appeared in ''
Tumble'' and ''
Tour de Celeb''.
Career
''The Only Way Is Essex''
Mecklenburgh rose to fame as one of the cast members in the
ITV2
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a ...
reality series ''
The Only Way is Essex''. She remained on the series for three years, leaving after the
tenth series.
Other work
In 2014 Mecklenburgh appeared on Ladies of London (season 1, episode 7) modelling Caprice's line, By Caprice.
In 2015 Mecklenburgh released a clothing range with
PrettyLittleThing and modelled in their advertising campaign. She also put her name to a collection for
Ellesse sportswear. She opened her own shop, called Lucy's Boutique, and began a fitness business named Results With Lucy. In 2013, she was announced as a regular columnist for
New! magazine. She is signed to
Select modelling agency
Established in London in 1977, by founders Tandy Anderson and sisters Clare and Chrissie Castagnetti, Select Model Management is a global network of model and talent agencies.
Company
In their early days, Select was one of the first modelling ag ...
.
In 2014, Mecklenburgh also took part in the
BBC One talent show ''
Tumble'' with professional partner,
Billy George. In 2015, her debut book, ''Be Body Beautiful'', was published by
Penguin
Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
. In 2016, she did a modelling campaign for
Barry M.
Personal life
Between 2010 and 2012, Mecklenburgh dated and was engaged to
Mario Falcone, but this relationship ended in 2012. In 2017, she started dating actor
Ryan Thomas, after they met participating in ''
Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls'' together. They have been engaged since June 2019.
She gave birth to her first child, a boy on 7 March 2020 with fiancé Ryan. She gave birth to her second child, a girl, on 29 May 2022. Ryan has a daughter Scarlett from a previous relationship with his former co-star actress
Tina O'Brien.
References
External links
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Living people
1992 births
English businesspeople
People from Brentwood, Essex
English television personalities
Participants in British reality television series