Where's the fake tan, sequins and short skirts? TOWIE's Sam, Lauren and Lydia have a rural makeover

We are used to seeing them with copious layers of fake tan, sequins and shorts skirts teetering around Essex in high heels. 

But the girls of The Only Way Is Essex have been given a rural makeover turning them into horse-riding, jodhpur wearing country bumpkins. 

And the makeover, as part of a shoot for the Evening Standard magazine, is quite astonishing as Sam Faiers, Lauren Goodger and Lydia Bright strut across the page.

Ladies of the estate: Sam Faiers Lauren Goodger and Lydia Bright get a rural makeover

The girls are dressed the smart tweed jackets cream jodhpurs white shirts and black and brown boots. 

While Sam sports a pair of thick-rimmed glasses Lauren is seen with a riding hat perched precariously on her head. 

And it isn’t just the girls who have been getting in on the makeover too. 
Sugar Hut manager Kirk Norcross is seen taking in a spot of shooting and poses in his tweed trousers topless. 

Big shot: Kirk Norcorss also got in on the ES Magazine shoot and posed topless in his tweed trousers with a shotgun

Although his body art in incongruous with the abundant country pile estate he looks self-assured as he stands with his shotgun in his hand. 

Mark Wright was also keen to get his kit off and is seen sitting on his heels next to a pond covered in lily pads. 

His shaved chest appears as smooth as the still waters behind him and he has apart from the trousers and boots he wears only a flatcap on his head. 

Poser: Mark also stripped off to show off his toned torso and his brooding stare

In the accompanying interview Mark opens up about breaking up with Lauren and says he still fancies her and loves her he said: ‘The romance is still full there but we just can’t get on. We’ve got to call it a day.’

Meanwhile Lauren said: ‘I was bored. He was always in Marbella or Ibiza or on PAs and I was always on my own. I bought a dog for bloody company.’

And it seems that the Miss Goodger is looking for someone to distract her as she added: ‘I’ll go on dates. I a guy wants to talk to me then that’s fine.’