When it comes to taking selfies, if it’s a particularly embarrassing one, at least the person that took the photo can control who sees it right? Well, not if your TOWIE’s Arg…for he seemed to forget the naked selfie rule – if you share it, be prepared to air it.
So when the whole wide world saw a naked shot that he originally sent to ex-girlfriend Gemma Collins, he was a little surprised to say the least – after all, it was for HER EYES ONLY!
Ahead of tonight’s official launch of his autobiography Living it Arg: Tales, Tantrums and TOWIE, he says: “The photo was taken a year-and-a-half ago and it was sent to Gemma. It was just a little treat for her – well I’d like to think it was a treat for her at the time.
I’m pretty sure she would have enjoyed it. I don’t know what I was thinking at the time, I was a chubby kid, usually people that take them selfies have six packs and work out but I must have felt confident in myself.
I suppose I thought I was sexy, maybe not everyone else.” The leaked photo above shows Arg awkwardly leaning against a bathroom wall, looking into a mirror – with his willy for the whole world to see...including his mum! [but we've censored it with a head shot of his best mate Mark Wright]
**He tells us: “God knows what I was thinking about leaning against the wall, there were probably a few different angles and testers – I’d like to think I picked the best one of the lot.”**
He says he was cross when he first discovered it had been leaked all over the internet but admits he can’t do anything about it now.
“It seemed at the time like a publicity stunt but I swear on my life that I never leaked it” he says “The thought wouldn’t have crossed my head – I wouldn’t have the guts or the nerve to do that. It was definitely… I’m not accusing Gemma for it…but I know that it was somewhere on her phone and she admitted to sending it to a few friends.”
And Arg was determined to get to the bottom of how the pic was leaked.
He tells us: “I confronted Gemma about it, she just came up with an excuse ‘oh my ex-boyfriend must have done it out of spite’ then she says ‘oh maybe I did send it to a few of my friends’ and we’re all like ‘come on Gemma we all know’- it was definitely from her. I think it’s annoying because it came out the day before my autobiography so everyone’s going to think it’s a publicity stunt, it wasn’t, but I can’t prove it.”
And if like us, you were wondering if he was working on a 2015 nude calendar, Arg tells us: “I don’t think so. I think that’s enough. People don’t need to see any more.”