TOWIE’s Yazmin Oukhellou and James Lock confirm they’re back together and reveal how they’re moving past cheating scandal

The previous time we observed The Only Way Is Essex’s Yazmin Oukhellou and James Lock – aka Lockie – on our screens, they had regrettably gone their independent methods. The pair split in August 2019 after two yrs jointly when Yaz accused Lockie of cheating on her through their holiday to Turkey – a declare he denied.

But quick-forward a yr and all has been forgiven, with the pair confirming they had been back again jointly when they had been pictured kissing in Majorca back again in July. Nonetheless, they acknowledge they are getting issues little by little this time all around and are taking pleasure in relationship solely.

In their very first job interview given that reconciling, Yaz tells new journal, “I experience like the issues that went erroneous in the relationship ahead of, we now know to put correct this time. I appear at that as a test operate – and now this is the serious operate.”

Lockie provides, “We bought to a level previous yr the place we both essential to have some time to think. I went and did my factor and she went and did hers. Whatever happened, happened. It’s all in the past now.”

James Lock and Yazmin Oukhellou have opened up on their romance after getting back together
James Lock and Yazmin Oukhellou have opened up on their romance after having back again jointly

Although they in no way lost speak to with each other, they started out seeing other persons through their yr aside. Yaz briefly dated pal Lauren Goodger’s ex-boyfriend Jake McLean, although Lockie went on to star on Celebs Go Relationship.

But they notify new they are commencing afresh – and it can be crystal clear to see they’re much better than at any time as they join the cherished-up pair at Yaz’s Essex flat for an exclusive shoot.

Below, Yaz, 26, and Lockie, 33, open up up about marriage and infants, what they like the most about each other and filming the new sequence of TOWIE…

We’re glad to see you back again jointly! How did you rekindle your romance?

Yaz: I was on holiday with the ladies in Ibiza and James was absent in Majorca. He assumed the grass was greener but, twelve months later, he realised it was just AstroTurf and he came back again to the serious offer.

Lockie: I bought her a flight around to Majorca and it was just a spontaneous factor. I rang her out of the blue and asked her to come. It was like a love movie!

Yaz: We’re getting it little by little, but issues are likely truly very well and I’m the happiest I have been. Hopefully it proceeds.

Lockie: Things are likely great mainly because we’ve put no labels on it. We’ve stated we are exclusive.

How are issues distinct this time all around?

Yaz: We in no way stopped loving each other and we both missed each other. We both held denying it to every person stating we might in no way get back again jointly and that we did not love each other, but we had been both definitely lying to ourselves and other persons.

Lockie: Before, we moved also immediately and we put also a great deal force on ourselves. We love each other and we are compatible and we do get on truly very well. We’ve both bought the identical ambitions and the identical outlook on everyday living and which is what you want from somebody. If it receives to a level the place these outside influences induce problems once again concerning me and her, then I’m likely to sacrifice the outside influences somewhat than our relationship.

Yaz and Lockie split last year but reunited this summer
Yaz and Lockie split previous yr but reunited this summer season

Yazmin admits she and James never stopped loving each other
Yazmin admits she and James in no way stopped loving each other

What do you mean by outside influences?

Lockie: Really don’t get me erroneous, relatives and near good friends are generally likely to get associated, so which is fantastic. But I mean persons who are not truly our pals. We’re on a Television demonstrate so there are a good deal of persons who experience like they have bought an belief, but their viewpoints are irrelevant. All that matters is me and her and which is what we’ve bought to keep in mind. I think previous time Yaz was a tiny little bit extra wrapped up in what persons assumed and stated. But those persons do not issue.

Yaz: James had been on the demonstrate for a extensive time and it was a new world for me. So for me to be thrust into a little something the place persons have viewpoints on you and your relationship, I did take a good deal to coronary heart.

What do your family members think of you having back again jointly?

Lockie: They’ve all been supportive. They just want us to be pleased and they will not want us to go as a result of the identical headache and heartache we did ahead of.

What is the response been like on social media?

Lockie: It’s been optimistic. I have observed the odd remark, which you generally get, but every person has been championing us and rooting for us to get back again jointly. But the main factor is, we are accomplishing it for us and for our joy.

Have you set any new principles in your relationship?

Yaz: I think we’ve both realised that likely out and partying so a great deal will not truly do the job very well when you happen to be in a relationship.

Lockie: We had been generally at events, generally partying and generally out. But particularly for me, it can be mastering to know when do the job is do the job. And when I’m out with the boys, figuring out when sufficient is sufficient. So just becoming smart.

Yaz: I think becoming mindful of your associate and realising what could upset your associate could not necessarily upset you, so just possessing that respect.

James says the reaction to their reunion has been mostly positive
James says the response to their reunion has been primarily optimistic

Yaz and Lockie have set new rules in their relationship
Yaz and Lockie have set new principles in their relationship

Yaz, you accused Lockie of cheating after he partied with a group of women in a lodge place in Turkey. How have you rebuilt the believe in in your relationship?

Yaz: I’m not there nonetheless. It’s nonetheless early days and I know it appears unusual and definitely we broke up around a little something I did not believe in him on, but I believe in him extra now than I did ahead of. I think which is mainly because I have carried out a good deal of self-healing. But I experience like I will in no way believe in any person totally 100 for every cent and I will not think you at any time must.

Lockie: That is not good!

Yaz: I will not think you must, while. Due to the fact then I experience like you happen to be leaving place for your coronary heart to get damaged.

Lockie, do you believe in Yaz 100 for every cent?

Lockie: Yeah I do. If you will not have believe in, what do you have?

You both dated other persons through your crack-up. How do you experience about that?

Lockie: She was talking to other persons and seeing other persons, and so was I. We both had a chat about that and we’ve both approved it. We’ve wiped the slate cleanse and moved on.

Yaz: We in no way stopped talking to each other. When you’ve got damaged up with somebody, you happen to be supposed to not talk to each other, but me and James spoke to each other all the time even while we had been seeing other persons.

Yaz, you dated your pal Lauren Goodger’s ex-boyfriend Jake McLean. Do you experience undesirable about betraying your friendship?

Yaz: What is actually happened in the past is in the past – and I’m searching to the long term. I have grown as a man or woman and I will not want any form of negativity in my everyday living. As much as I’m concerned, there is no challenge and I have moved on. I’m truly pleased with James. I would like her the finest for the long term.

Yaz admits she can't trust Lockie just yet
Yaz admits she are not able to believe in Lockie just nonetheless

James sweetly called Yazmin the best looking girl in the world
James sweetly named Yazmin the finest searching girl in the world

What do you think it is that delivers you both back again jointly?

Yaz: Anyone says it, but we are like magnets. Even when we were not jointly on the demonstrate, we might generally come across a way to be following to each other. I will not know what it is, it can be just what we have. For me, it can be James’ aura. He is magnetic and which is what drew me to him in the commencing. And he’s extremely handsome.

Lockie: Thank you extremely a great deal, Yaz. That is form of you to say. You do like me after all! Obviously, Yazmin is stunning. She’s the finest-searching girl in Essex, in England and in the world. She’s the fantastic girl for me. She’s bought two sides to her mainly because she’s also a businesswoman like Karren Brady. She’s like Hovis – she’s the finest of both worlds.

Yaz: You have just likened me to bread!

Lockie: Anyone loves Hovis! Possibly I must use an additional comparison, but it can be coming from a superior area. What I’m striving to say is, she’s a relatives girl who would appear after her husband and relatives, and then there is the brains which is likely to make me hundreds of money!

Yaz: Generally, I’m the guy and the girl in the relationship.

The pair have no plans to move in together just yet
The pair have no ideas to shift in jointly just nonetheless

Do you use the trousers, Yaz?

Yaz: Surely!

Lockie: We’re equivalent.

Yaz: Yeah, we are extremely equivalent. But James does pay attention to me. James is extremely distinct to me in the feeling he can drop target and drop track on things, but I can steer him in the correct direction. But my mind also goes into overdrive and I get anxiety and he delivers me back again down
and stops me around-contemplating and stressing about things. So we do stability each other out.

Lockie: Yeah, I agree. A pleased spouse is a pleased everyday living!

Do you have any ideas to shift in jointly?

Yaz: I only bought my flat in May, so we are not preparing on relocating in jointly just nonetheless. He’ll come to mine or I am going to go to his and we have a pair of days off, so we miss each other once again, which is good. We’re relocating little by little, so watch this house.

Lockie: I have formally bought my possess drawer at hers. She put my title on it!

Notify us about your flat, Yaz…

Yaz: It’s bought two bedrooms and two bathrooms, but I produced one particular of the rooms into a stroll-in wardrobe – which is surely my favorite place mainly because baggage and footwear are my responsible pleasures. It’s a extremely girly flat. I have bought the greys with the blush pink mixed as a result of. I’m obsessed with interiors.

Quite good! Is Lockie superior all around the flat?

Yaz: No!

Lockie: I’m extremely cleanse. I make your mattress.

Yaz: He places the quilt on the erroneous way all around! But it can be a superior energy, I take pleasure in it. He is having greater.

Do you see marriage in your long term?

Yaz: We’re not hurrying just about anything but I wouldn’t have bought back again with James if I did not see a long term with him. I will not at any time appear to squander
my time, so yeah, I would be lying if I stated I will not see that with him but it can be extremely early days so we are getting it little by little.

Lockie: View this house!

Do you at any time hint at a marriage proposal, Yaz?

Yaz: Nicely, I did try a ring on ahead of when we had been jointly in Dubai. But when I tried out it on I did not realise it was £80,000.

Lockie: She will not come low-cost!

Do you both want children?

Yaz: A million for every cent, sure.

Lockie: Certainly, of program – one particular working day. We want a pair of tiny Lockies managing all around the world, will not we?

Yaz: Wish me luck for that working day!

Yazmin wants up to 10 children
Yazmin wants up to 10 children

How a lot of young children do you want?

Yaz: It depends how abundant we are. If we get truly abundant, I want 10. It will be like Less expensive By The Dozen!

Lockie: Er, 10 young children?! I will never be modifying the nappies…

Yaz: A pleased spouse is a pleased everyday living!

Let us talk TOWIE. What can we be expecting from you this sequence?

Yaz: I think you are going to see a distinct side to me and James, which is the rationale why we fell in love with each other in the very first area. We’ve made a decision to take it slow, but ideally towards the end of the sequence, he must be asking me to be his girlfriend!

Ooh! How have you located filming so much?

Lockie: It’s definitely peculiar situations we are in with the full Covid factor, but I’m just glad to be back again at do the job. It’s superior to be back again filming.

Yaz: For after in my everyday living, it can be been truly optimistic and truly pretty. I’m thrilled for viewers to see a new side of me and James they most likely haven’t observed ahead of. It was generally us arguing but I experience like now, you get to see the serious side. Not that it was not serious ahead of, but it was just focused on the destructive side of our relationship somewhat than the optimistic side.

Had been you cautious about putting your relationship back again on digital camera?

Yaz: Oh, 100 for every cent. When you do what we do, there is generally that worry about putting your relationship back again out there. But it is what we signed up for and it can be all that we know as a pair, so it can be not a little something new which is becoming thrown at us.

Can you believe the demonstrate is celebrating its 10th anniversary?

Yaz: No! I are not able to believe it can be been that extensive. I keep in mind observing it when I was at college. It’s psychological.

Lockie: It’s ridiculous. For it to previous that extensive just demonstrates how great it is.

James isn't fussed that his ex Danielle Armstrong is returning to TOWIE
James just isn’t fussed that his ex Danielle Armstrong is returning to TOWIE

What is actually your favorite memory from your time on TOWIE?

Lockie: Just about anything I do with Yaz is the emphasize of my working day. But also all the enjoyable things with the boys and all the Marbella journeys we’ve had.

Yaz: It’s most likely not superior mainly because it was when me and James were not jointly, but my favorite memory is the line I did when I walked absent from him and I went, ‘Yeah, I’m essentially in love with somebody else and that man or woman is me.’ His experience dropped mainly because he truly assumed I was likely to say I was in love with somebody else.

And your least favorite?

Yaz: Surely our crack-up. That is bought to be the worst factor I have at any time gone as a result of. It’s really hard sufficient breaking up with somebody at the rear of shut doors, but for the community to see it and have an belief on it – that was complicated.

Lockie: I wouldn’t say I have undesirable recollections as such, it can be just issues you regret in the feeling of the way I have taken care of issues around the yrs. Like arguments I have had with a variety of cast associates. Now I’m a little bit more mature and wiser, I would have dealt with those scenarios in different ways. But we are all nonetheless superior good friends, there is no animosity with any past cast associates. People in Essex fall out all the time, but we get around it.

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Which outdated faces had been you most thrilled about seeing back again?

Yaz: I will not truly know the outdated cast associates, so I’m not also fussed.

Lockie: I have bought a good deal of time for Joey Essex.

Lockie, your ex Danielle Armstrong has produced a return. How do you experience about that?

Lockie: Me and Danielle had been such a extensive time in the past. We had our time jointly and it was what it was. There is certainly no animosity concerning me and her. She’s gone her way and I have gone mine. We will not blend in the identical circles.

Yaz: It’s so extensive in the past. They broke up 4 yrs in the past. I get on with her if I see her out. There is certainly no undesirable blood. I’m pleased for her. She’s moved on and she’s had a infant and has carried out truly very well. Superior luck to her. We’ve bought no troubles.

Reasonable sufficient! Aside from TOWIE, what other do the job projects are you occupied with?

Yaz: I have bought my wellness retreat in Marrakesh, which sad to say we haven’t been in a position to launch nonetheless because of to Covid. But through Covid we did wellness sessions on the net. We’ve also both just introduced our possess investing academy, which teaches persons how to trade
and it sets you up with a extensive-lasting profession.

TOWIE airs Sundays and Wednesdays at 9pm on ITVBe