Her stylish wardrobe won her plaudits when she appeared on ITV reality show The Only Way Is Essex.
And now Jess Wright has so impressed bosses at fashion chain New Look that she has struck a deal to have her own clothing collection with them.
The star, mother of four-year-old Presley, will unveil her ‘payday edit’ tomorrow, which includes two denim ensembles, handbags and sunglasses.
Jess, 40, says of her new project: ‘I’ve teamed up with @newlook to put together my own Payday Picks, bringing together all the pieces I’m loving at the moment and the pieces I think are worth treating yourself to when payday rolls around.
‘From easy everyday looks to items that instantly make an outfit a little more special, I’ve picked my favorites and I’m obsessed with this edit!’
Friends say Jess is ‘thrilled’ with the deal which she will share with her 1.4 million Instagram followers as it is the latest lucrative job she has landed following her appearance on ITV’s Cooking With the Stars last year.
Jess Wright has impressed the bosses of fashion chain New Look so much that she has signed a deal to have her own clothing collection with them
The star, mother of four-year-old Presley, will unveil her ‘payday edit’ tomorrow, which includes two denim ensembles, handbags and sunglasses.
Jess has been open in the past about how much the success of her younger brother Mark – a DJ on Heart FM and married to actress Michelle Keegan – has affected her.
The star, who has two other siblings, Josh, 35, a former footballer turned manager, and influencer Natalya, 24, said: ‘I’m quite driven by my family. Everyone is very ambitious and Mark is clearly very successful. Joshua is successful in what he does. Natalya is killing it with her stuff.
‘So you always think, “God, am I doing enough?” I’m really hard on myself. I always think I’m not doing a good enough job.’
‘I wake up in the morning and think about my career. This industry is tough, TV is very hard to come by these days. There are new characters coming into the industry all the time. I have to remind myself that I’ve been in the public eye for fifteen years and I’m still working.”
In March, Jess apologized after facing backlash over comments she made about bikinis on her podcast.
She, her mother Carol, 65, and sister Natalya were attacked after a conversation on Wright At Home about women’s swimwear, in which they called string bikinis ‘unsexy’.
Listeners branded Jess, who has herself been pictured on social media wearing thong bikinis, a ‘hypocrite’ after she claimed her husband Will ‘hates’ the look before her mum Carol said her husband, Mark Sr, finds them ‘unsexy’.
It’s been a tough summer for Jess after son Presley was rushed to hospital.
In August 2024, he was diagnosed with a congenital bicuspid aortic valve condition.
She previously explained to her followers that the condition – which affects around one percent of the population – means the heart valve has only two leaflets instead of the usual three.
But Jess admitted she has PTSD after dealing with his health problems and is hesitant to have another child, despite wanting to give Presley a sibling.
On an episode of her podcast, fans asked her if she was thinking about having more babies.
‘I would really like a brother or sister for Presley. “I’m just too scared,” she said.
‘I would really like a brother or sister for Presley. Yeah, I just think I’m too scared right now and it took us four years to get out of the trenches.”
She continued, “I think it’s particularly difficult with his health. He’s had a lot of health problems, and I think that’s what scared us.
Jess, 40, says of her new project: ‘I’ve teamed up with @newlook to put together my own Payday Picks, bringing together all the pieces I’m loving right now with the pieces I think are worth treating yourself to when payday rolls around.’
Friends say Jess is ‘delighted’ with the deal which she will share with her 1.4 million Instagram followers as it is the latest lucrative job she has landed following her appearance on ITV’s Cooking With the Stars last year
“So I think from the beginning we have a little bit of PTSD and his heart condition. We didn’t find out until about two years ago and we adjusted to that news.
‘I was thinking about it the other day. I was so ashamed of myself when I went to Cooking With The Stars last year.
“I stayed at the hotel one night all week to break it up because it was a whole week of filming. I was a complete wreck that night as I, with a bunch of celebrities I had just met that week, was hysterical about his heart condition.
‘The ball had already been a month ago and his heart had been checked the week before, so I think I bottled it all up. It doesn’t sound strange now when I say it out loud, but when I thought about it yesterday, God knows what they all thought of me.
‘They must have thought I was crazy. They must have literally thought I was a lunatic.”
In April, Jess revealed that Presley is ‘defying all odds’ after doctors delivered the ‘rare’ news that his heart condition has improved after two years of painful check-ups.
