The Only Way Is Essex star’s Lydia Bright and James Argent aren’t doing a great job at proving they are over each other as they move on from the abusive phone calls to tit for tat photo ops, to prove how happy they are with their new partners.

Considering that Lydia has kept her new relationship with co-star Tom Kilbey relatively quiet, and that Arg has been telling anyone who will listen that he and co-star Gemma Collins are just good friends as he is embarrassed to be with a larger woman, both ex’s looked more than comfortable being photographed with their new respective halves, on the same night – coincidence?

In this new game of who can look the happiest, The Daily Mail Newspaper has published pictures of Arg and Gemma out on a romantic dinner date, whilst Lydia gushed as she had her picture taken with Cara’s brother, Tom, as they  left the same the Mayfair hotel, where Arg and Gemma were also feeding the paps plenty of PDA’s to write about!

In the paper out today, Arg can be seen grinning like a Cheshire cat as his new girlfriend (who used to be a guilty secret friend with benefits), Gemma drove them to the swanky hotel last night.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the road the same photographer papped an equally open Lydia and Tom as they walked in to the same hotel, moments later (you would have the thought the photographer might have given them the heads up, but what would be the fun in that?), who looked shy at first but then soon seemed to warm up to the camera, posing for the photographer in a very romantic way (maybe they did get the heads up then!)

Both couple have recently returned from filming the summer special of TOWIE, The Only Way Is Marbs, which was shown last night on ITV2, which also saw new couple Jessica Wright and Ricky Rayment making their relationship official, a notion they continued last night also.

Ricky and Jessica,who also used her recent holiday to film her first ever music video, were  out enjoying a romantic meal in Woodford, Essex,where they were seen kissing and looking dreamily into one another’s eyes, before gentleman Ricky, escorted the brunette beauty home.

Watch Lydia dismissing rumours that she and Arg were planning to get married two months ago in the clip below: