Lauren Goodger’s sex tape – TOWIE star left ‘gutted, embarrassed and cheap’

Last week, heat was approached by someone selling a clip purporting to be of TOWIE's Lauren Goodger performing a sex act on a man. By the time we could verify the footage, rumours of Lauren's sex tape had already hit the internet and were swirling fast.

Her tweet last week said it all. "I'd rather be alone than with fakes, gossip, hate and evil," she posted amidst all the tweets about her Lauren's Way self-tanning products.

While the sex tape hasn't officially hit the internet yet, Lauren's ex-boyfriend Jake McClean – who is thought to be the man in the video, although there is no suggestion he is the one trying to sell it – has gone into hiding, deleting his Twitter account and staying out of the public eye. Which unfortunately leaves Lauren to take all the flak, despite her not even knowing that she was being filmed at the time.

"Lauren is gutted and incredibly embarrassed," one of her friends told heat. "She found out a week ago that something was trying to sell the video. It was an intimate moment that she shared with a boyfriend, so it's massively embarrassing."

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