4 Mar, 2020 @ 16:47
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TOWIE filming in Spain’s Tenerife cancelled because of coronavirus

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THE filming of TOWIE in Tenerife has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 coronavirus scare, according to media reports.

The cast of The Only Way is Essex were due to fly to the Canary Islands for filming of their annual international special in the coming weeks.

But they have been told to stay at home following an outbreak of the virus on the holiday island, according to The Sun Online.

The show’s producers are said to be ‘in chaos’ trying to come up with an alternative location for the hit programme but are putting the cast’s wellbeing first.

The ITVBe show is filmed abroad at least once a year and has previously been to Tenerife’s Roca Nivaria Gran Hotel in 2015 and 2017.

This is set on Costa Adeje, which is at the centre of an outbreak of the virus.

A British woman who tested positive for COVID-19 was staying at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel.

More than 1,000 guests were quarantined after Italian tourists staying there tested positive for coronavirus last month.

TOWIE has also been shot in Marbella, Sardinia and Thailand.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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