Joey Essex revisits his surprisingly normal first job before fame – in £190k sports car
JOEY Essex is now a multi-millionaire who splits his time between Dubai and the UK.
But before he shot to fame in The Only Way Is Essex, he once lived a much more normal job away from the spotlight.
Joey, 32, joined the hit ITV2 reality programme in 2011 and has been a hit with viewers ever since.
But before he rose to prominence, he used to sling fish at Billingsgate Market in London’s East End.
And it seems that Joey has never forgotten where he came from as he took to Instagram with a strong message for his followers.
He posted a short clip onto his Instagram story where he showed off his new £190k Lamborghini car in front of his old workplace.
The caption read: “Remember your roots.”
Joey splashed the cash on the luxury motor earlier this year before his big move to Dubai.
The former Towie favourite decided to leave Essex after a terrifying break-in at his home.
We revealed in January last year how Joey was left “horrified and shaken” when raiders ransacked his £3million pad while he was out with friends.
Since leaving the Essex based show, he has been in a wide variety of projects.
In 2013, he participated in the first series of Splash! and he later came in fourth place on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here later in the year.
March 2014 saw Joey star in his own one-off ITV documentary called Educating Joey Essex.
Since then he has appeared in many popular reality TV shows such as The Jump in 2015, Celebs Go Dating in 2016, Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2018 and Celebrity Ex On The Beach in 2020.
In 2023, he participated in the fifteenth instalment of Dancing On Ice where he left the series as the runner up.