[1] Filming for the series commenced in June 2022 and was set to begin months prior, but due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television, it was postponed.
[3] Liam ‘Gatsby’ Blackwell quit TOWIE at the end of this series to pursue a career in Real Estate in Los Angeles and be closer to his Mother.
Elma Pazar, Hannah Voyan, Junaid Ahmed and Mia Sully were cast on The Only Way Is Essex for the series.
[4] Nine of the cast members who had appeared in the Dominican Republic episodes were thrown off their flight back to the UK and met by police officers, since they had refused to wear masks and were vaping on board.
An insider for the series said that the involved cast members were set to receive "short shrift from ITV bosses".