Lauren Goodger is slammed by social media users

TOWIE star Lauren Goodger has been slammed by social media users after she announced that she would refuse to have the Covid vaccine and claimed the virus was ‘just like a cold’.

The reality star, 34, confirmed that she would not take the groundbreaking vaccine, which could save millions of lives once rolled out across the UK, and admitted she ‘doesn’t believe’ in the mandatory face masks.

It comes just a day after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson plunged the country into a third lockdown in a desperate attempt to control the new mutant coronavirus.

Following Lauren’s comments, social media users slammed the reality star, who has been open about her use of filler and botox, for making the claims.

One user wrote: ‘Doesn’t like taking medicines but yet she’s happy to fill her face with botox and fillers?!?’ 

While another commented: ‘Lauren Goodger won’t get a jab but you’re clearly not scared of a cannula’   

And another added: ‘God bless Lauren Goodger for giving up her time to give people the vaccine.’

Explaining her reason for refusing the medically-endorsed vaccine, Lauren previously said: ‘I am more scared of the vaccine than I am of the virus. I will start imagining that I am dying. I am terrified. I don’t like taking medicine. I don’t like taking antibiotics.’

Lauren, who has been open about her use of filler and botox, admitted: ‘OK, I do do aesthetics and even now I am still nervous of that – I am like that in general’, reports the Daily Star.

‘Even with a facial I want to know what is in it. That is my anxiety over the years.’

Lauren added: ‘I just feel that it hasn’t been around long enough and we don’t know enough about it.

‘I think I have had Covid and if I was to get ill I would treat it how I would treat it. I didn’t die from it. It is like getting it a cold. I wouldn’t get the flu jab either.

‘I don’t want to inject myself with something I don’t know the longterm effects.

‘I have heard all the different things that are in it and I think I have had Covid already and I have coped with it.’   

Lauren insisted that she believed everyone should do what they felt was right, and said: ‘I am not going to say you should not have it. Each to their own. Good luck. That is my personal opinion though.

‘At the end of the day I am not going to talk about it as I know what I know. You can catch a cold, you can catch anything.’

The reality personality then went on to discuss her opinion on masks, which were introduced to try and halt the spread of coronavirus.

Face masks are mandatory in indoor public spaces including shops as well as on transport, unless exempt on medical grounds. 

She said: ‘I don’t believe in masks – I am not going to get into the subject.

‘When I have a mask on and I walk I can’t wear one as I get into a panic.  

‘I do have an exempt card but I don’t use it as it is a bit muggy.’

Lauren flew to Corfu late last year, shortly before London and the South East were plunged into Tier 4 restrictions, to promote her tanning brand.

Now back home, Lauren has been holed up at her Essex home with her toyboy boyfriend Charles Drury, 23. 

Lauren rose to fame on The Only Way Is Essex while in a 12-year relationship with ex-boyfriend Mark Wright, and has since dated jailbirds Jake McLean and Joey Morrison.