By Dan Bloom for MailOnline The Only Way is Essex star James Argent has apologised for sparking a  police missing person alert when he reportedly went to the 'wrong airport' and vanished for 24 hours. Fears grew for Arg after he failed to turn up for an early-morning flight to Majorca after leaving his family home at 3.30am yesterday in Woodford Green, east London. Scotland Yard issued a public appeal for his whereabouts this morning, 26 hours after he vanished, as fans began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #PrayForArg. But just three hours later he phoned his father, who told MailOnline he may have turned up at Stansted Airport in Essex while his worried agent waited at Gatwick.
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Arg left east London home at 3am on Friday to catch a flight to Majorca
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He never made it to the airport to meet his agent and family were worried
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Now he has contacted his father - who believes he went to wrong airport
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Agent 'waited at Gatwick while Arg went to Stansted', then his phone broke
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His distraught 1.4million Twitter followers even began #PrayForArg hashtag
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