James Argent High School in Woodford. Argent began acting and singing in 2002 after winning The Kenny Award at the Kenneth More Theatre in Ilford, east London. Argent dated Lydia Bright on and off from 2007 to 2012 and 2015 to 2016. In August 2014, Argent was reported missing from his home when he failed to show up for a scheduled flight; however, he was found just over 24 hours later and tweeted "Hi I'm so sorry to have worried everyone. I'm fine and safe but again can't apologise enough." In October 2014, Argent was suspended from "The Only Way Is Essex"
Reality television plots and subject matters on reality television are more authentic and more engaging than in scripted dramas, writing that scripted network television "remains dominated by variants on the police procedural... in which a stock group of characters (ethnically, sexually, and generationally diverse) grapples with endless versions of the same dilemma. The episodes have all the ritual predictability of Japanese Noh theater," while reality television is "the liveliest genre on the set right now. It has engaged hot-button cultural issues – class, sex, race – that respectable television... rarely touches." Television critic James Poniewozik wrote that reality shows like "Deadliest Catch"