This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning, every welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday the 26th of October, but it all kicked off yesterday.

And the reason it kicked off, and they started dragging out some really sad, sad Essex representations.

It was after two women decided that they didn't like what Collins

dictionary had said about Essex girls, which was a sweeping generalisation. But then, of course,

all the papers have leapt onto the bandwagon today, and they've started doing Essex girl jokes,

of which you will have heard quite a number on the programme this morning. However, the most

embarrassing out of all of them was poor old Gemma Collins, who they dragged

up from somewhere.

I mean, quite clearly I can state now categorically, as I did earlier on, that there is no

chance that Gemma is doing a fitness DVD for Christmas.

She appears to have gained weight, certainly not lost weight, so there's no chance there.

But her description of dictionaries was sort of prompted by, yeah, but no, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but.

In fact, she kind of stereotyped to self, poor cow. Not her fault, not her fault. You know, dumb, dumb, and then there's Gemma Collins.

It sort of goes down the line, I'm afraid. All very

embarrassing, all very worrying. And he sort of thinks yourself, you know, why did they bother?

Of course, I mean, the other thing is Fern McCann has leapt onto the bandwagon. I mean, anybody

more like the stereotypical, you'd be hard pushed to find. However, over in Brentwood, Amy Childs, displaying a hint of a bump.

Amy has gone out with a photographer to have a picture taken because this is a set-up picture. You know it's a set-up picture, because we know that she wanders around with her curlers in.

So she's announced she's expecting her first child with a jailbird. Yes, well done to Bradley Wright. Such a common name in Essex, isn't it? He served five months in prison for handling stolen goods. She said she didn't think she could get pregnant. They met in a pub, as a surprise. Two years ago, but their relationship came to a halt when he went to prison.

Obviously, she decided not to support him.

What is it about these sort of people in Essex who want to go out with jailbirds?

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