Ricky, Lauren, Theresa, Anita and Newt go on a camping trip. Wade joins them and he and Lauren go off alone into the woods. Newt discovers Wade's bag of women's clothes and panics, worrying about Lauren. He tells the others and accidentally calls Lauren his girlfriend. Lauren discovers Newt and Theresa's secret fling and slaps Newt across the face, before declaring that she is now going out with Wade. Lauren sleeps with Wade in Evissa, however he breaks up with her realising she was using him. Newt later tries to reconcile their relationship but Lauren declines because of the pain he had caused her. Lauren started a relationship with Gaz Bennett. Gaz and Lauren begin humiliating Anita for fun. Gaz and Lauren sleep together for the first time and Lauren realises that he was a virgin. The pair started to spend more and more time with Spencer Gray, a man with severe learning difficulties who had inherited a lot of money from Warren Fox. They used him to get him to buy alcohol for them and even swiped his credit card; they then hatched a plan to steal all of Spencer's money and run away together.