Lauren Goodger shows off her legs as she goes on a night out with her pals following split with Joey Morrisson
LAUREN Goodger is enjoying the single life again following her split from her jailbird lover Joey Morrisson.
The former Towie star put on her sexiest black dress for a night out on the tiles with her pals on Sunday.
The Sun Online exclusively revealed Lauren had called it quits with Joey, who’s been behind bars since 2008 for serious drugs related offences, on Friday.
A source close to Lauren told The Sun Online: “Lauren has told all her mates she is single - she said she has finished with Joey and that the relationship is over.
“It didn’t really come as a shock to anyone because people know it wasn't exactly the perfect relationship for her to be in - in fact, we're completely relieved it's all over.
“She was really letting her hair down and it was nice to see her back to her usual self.”
Most of her close knit group of friends have been fiercely against her getting close with the bad boy who will be locked up at HMP Highpoint South until next year.
Romantic Lauren has dedicated over a year of her life to visiting Joey in jail and spoken openly about her dream of having his baby and getting married next year when the con is released from prison, despite what her friends told her.
She appeared to have put her heartache behind her on Sunday night however and looked happier than ever when she hit the town with her mates.
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Grinning for the cameras, the 30-year-old showed off her long legs in a fitted black dress.
Throughout the evening Lauren posted pictures of herself and her friends to her Instagram account.
One snap showed her dancing seductively on the side of a sofa in a nightclub while her mates filmed her.
Unsurprisingly, Lauren has been keen to avoid publicly acknowledging the split as she comes to terms with it herself.
Instead she has been hitting out with memes and cryptic messages, as pals admit she now “feels a little silly” for getting so swept away by a man who she has never even been on a date with.
Lauren's concerned pal added how she had been so conscious of presenting herself as the perfect girlfriend to “controlling” bad boy Joey in Instagram pictures she had forgotten who she was.
They explained: “Lauren is the life and soul of the party - she loves going out and seeing her mates but she'd stopped doing it altogether.
“She was just going to the gym and keeping herself to herself but now she's getting her mojo back. She keeps saying 'LG is back.'”
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