Lee Ryan has admitted that he thinks ex-TOWIE member Joey Essex fakes being stupid, saying that the reality star is nowhere near as unintelligent as he comes across on television and he simply puts on an act for the sake of entertainment.
Lee Ryan with his Blue bandmates Simon Webbe, Duncan James and Antony Costa
Speaking about him and his fellow Blue bandmates being tricked by television producers on their ITV series Blue Go Mad In Ibiza, he said to BANG Showbiz: "I think if we did go into that show thinking we were going to come off trying to be cool [we'd have been upset] ... It's the entertainment game.
"You meet people like Joey Essex, he plays it so well. That guy's not stupid, he plays it like he's stupid because it's entertaining and people go, 'No, he is stupid'. And it's like, 'He isn't, he's far from it'."
He did go on to admit however that he thinks most people in the entertainment industry take themselves too seriously, adding: "At the end of the day we're in the entertainment industry and the one thing that I think sometimes has been a bit lost from this industry from when we first started out is that some people really don't want to let their guard down and don't want to play the fool."
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