The Only Way Is Essex Season 37 Episode 10: Finale Recap

The TOWIE Series 37 finale is built around an artifact nobody has on screen. Somewhere, weeks ago, on a cast trip to the Dominican Republic, somebody made a group chat. Inside that group chat, Harry Derbidge was described as “weird,” or possibly worse. Then Saffron Lempriere told someone what was in the chat. Then Amber Turner was accused of telling Harry. Then Amy Childs reportedly told Harry not to trust Elma Pazar for the last three to six months. By the time Will Childs has cued up his Love Town soul night for the finale, nobody on screen agrees on what the original group chat actually said, who relayed which bit to whom, or which of those relays counts as the betrayal. The hour that follows is everybody arguing about a piece of paper nobody can produce.

(The following is a recap of TOWIE Series 37, Episode 10, the series finale, with full spoilers.)

What happens in TOWIE Series 37 Episode 10?

The cast spends most of the episode in pre-fight positioning ahead of Wills’ soul night, a Love Town event Will Childs is hosting at a venue in Chelmsford. Elma debates whether to go to a dinner party at Ella Rae Wise’s that night, given that Joe Blackman and Junaid Ahmed will be there. Dan Edgar tells a friend that he and his partner have soft-floated moving in together at the end of Bear’s school year. Saffron does some flirty footwork with the building-site lads ahead of the night out. Then the soul night opens, the music kicks in, and the rest of the hour is one extended confrontation in three or four overlapping rounds, fanning out across the room.

The headline beats: Saffron approaches Amber at the music night and accuses her of relaying a group chat to Harry. Harry confronts Elma directly about whether she called him “weird” in the chat. Elma calls Amy out for repeatedly telling Harry not to trust her. Saffron, in front of everyone, eventually admits that she “relayed it wrong.” Harry, exhausted, says, “This ain’t working, is it?” Junaid, watching from a few feet away, sums up the whole episode in one off-camera line: “Oh, my God, this is mad.”

Reality TV in 2026 splits roughly into two camps: the high-concept format show, where the rules of engagement are clear and the cash is on the table (something like NBC’s The Wall US, where contestants drop oversized balls down a giant pegboard for prize money), and the soft-format show like TOWIE, where the rules of engagement are whether or not Amy told Harry not to trust Elma, and the only prize on offer is whether ITVBe renews you for series 38. The finale leans hard into the second mode.

What is Wills’ Love Town soul night, and why is everyone there?

Will Childs hosts a recurring soul night called Love Town, and this finale uses it as the structural device to force everybody into the same room. The pre-event scenes show Saffron and Wills out in Chelmsford trying to flyer the night, doing a 1980s-themed sales pitch (“It’s classic ’80s. It’s right up your street”) to passing strangers. The pitch lands enough people that the venue is full by the time the cast walks in. Wills opens the show by yelling “Go crazy for Wills!” into the mic, then launches into a cover of “Would I Lie To You?” by Charles & Eddie. The choice is on the nose. The whole episode is people accusing each other of lying.

The music night is the kind of setpiece TOWIE has been running for fifteen years. Get the cast into the same room, hand somebody a microphone, light a candle, let the unresolved arguments rotate into focus one at a time. Wills is unusually good at this particular subgenre of TOWIE event because he gets the audience genuinely warm before the fight breaks out. One cast member says it on camera: “Wills’ night’s always the best.” The endorsement is earned.

What is the Dominican group chat, and why does it sit at the centre of the finale?

The Dominican group chat is the artifact at the centre of the episode, and the show keeps making the same joke at its expense: nobody can quote it. Elma’s version is that she had a group chat from a recent trip to the Dominican Republic in which Harry was discussed, mostly in passing, with the word “weird” appearing somewhere. Saffron’s version, which she relayed to Harry, was that the chat was “specifically about Harry” and that Elma had called him weird. Amy’s version, allegedly relayed to Harry over the past three to six months, was that Elma was not to be trusted. Amber’s version is that she said almost nothing, or that what she did say was about Joe and Junaid doing shots at a bar with Harry, not the chat itself.

Five people, four versions, one missing source document. Worth noting because this is the actual story of the finale, and the show only half-acknowledges it. Every time someone says “where has this come from?” the camera cuts away before anyone can answer. The group chat does the work of a McGuffin in a thriller. Whatever was in it triggered everything, but the contents themselves are now beside the point. The damage is downstream.

Elma’s central complaint, delivered to Harry across the soul-night dance floor, is the cleanest statement of the problem: “I just feel like you knew way too much about that group chat.” That is the entire grievance. Not that there was a group chat. Not even that Harry was called weird. Just that the wrong version of it has been pinging around the cast for months. Lock it in.

Why does Saffron finally admit she “relayed it wrong”?

Mid-confrontation, with Harry and Elma circling each other on the edge of the dance floor and Amy listening in, Saffron interrupts to deliver a line that is genuinely unusual for this show: “So I’ve relayed it wrong. I’m so sorry, guys. It’s my fault.”

That admission lands harder than it sounds on paper. TOWIE characters do not generally take blame on camera. The format is built around the idea that the wrong was done to them. Saffron stepping forward at the climax of the finale and conceding the original telephone error is the closest thing to a resolution the episode has. It does not actually solve anything, because everybody is too far down the road by then, but it does flip the moral compass slightly. The grievance against Elma was based on a relay that the relayer now admits was wrong.

Whether the show is going to honour this in Series 38 or whether everyone forgets she said it within a week is a separate question. The line is in the record now.

What is the closing scene of TOWIE Series 37 Episode 10?

The closing scene is Harry, Elma, Saffron, and Amy stranded in the same square metre of dance floor, talking past each other with Junaid and Becks watching from a few feet away. Harry says, “This ain’t working, is it?” Junaid, off to the side, drops the line of the episode under his breath: “Oh, my God, this is mad.”

Nothing closes. Nobody apologises in a way that the other party accepts. The soul night carries on around them, the music swells, and the credits roll over the cast still standing in the same spots, looking like they are about to start the argument over from the top. Roll credits.

That is the right ending for a series finale that wants you to come back for Series 38. Nothing is solved. Everything is set up. The Dominican group chat is still in evidence.

What’s your read: is Saffron’s “I relayed it wrong” admission actually going to count in Series 38, or is the Dominican group chat going to get re-quoted in episode 1? Drop your take in the comments.