TOWIE: It seems like Mario Falcone and Lucy Mecklenburgh are next to separate

First Amy Childs and Kirk Norcross… then him and Lauren Pope (twice)… and we’ve all lost count the volume of times Mark Wright and Lauren Goodger and James ‘Arg’ Argent and Lydia Bright have split up.

But now it feels like The sole Way Is Essex couples’ curse could have extended to Mario Falcone and Lucy Mecklenburgh.

The pretty brunette, 20, was seen breaking down in tears in last night’s episode of TOWIE after reading sexy emails from ‘at least 40′ other women on her boyfriend’s iPad.

Emotional: Lucy Mecklenburgh cries as she reads emails on boyfriend Mario Falcone’s iPad in last night’s episode of The single Way Is Essex

Now who’s been naughty? Mario Falcone abruptly left the poker game after a text from Lucy suggests he’s been found out

The episode started with the tailor telling his father Mario Snr he just couldn’t forget Lucy cheating on him along with her ex Mark Wright last September.

Although Lucy insists she awoke in Mark’s bed together with her clothes on, she claims she was ‘too drunk’ to keep in mind what happened.

After denying the full incident for 2 months, Lucy confessed to Mario in November they usually briefly split.

Advice: Mario tells his father Mario Snr he can’t stop brooding about Lucy with Mark Wright

But it sounds as if just two months down the road, Mario can’t recover from Lucy’s betrayal.

He told his dad: ‘Every day i cannot stop all in favour of Mark and Lucy.

‘I still love her and that i wanna be together with her, but i am unable to be along with her…’

Mario Snr told his son: ‘It’s not the cheating, its the lying to everyone for 2 months. if you cannot trust her, then its pointless.’

Confused: Mario says he’s in love with Lucy but can’t trust her

Mario Jnr went directly to complain: ‘She said she’ll spend the remainder of her life making it as much as me. But she’s done nothing.

‘I’m always procuring everything, taking her out to dinner. She doesn’t even say thanks .’

Clearly not too bothered about Lucy, Mario Snr added: ‘You’re a tender good looking boy. Don’t waste a while.

Meanwhile, while Lydia pre-fascinated about her split from Arg, Lucy decided to open up to Billi Mucklow and Cara Kilbey over her fears about her relationship.

What do I do? Lucy asks Billi Mucklow and Cara Kilbey for advice about her rocky relationship with Mario

She said: ‘He’s got a split personality. We’re all happy and he suddenly changes. I wanna know what is going on through his head.’

She admitted she had asked to observe his phone and he said no, so she was concerned he had something to cover.

Lucy added: ‘He’ll take his phone to the shower, to the rest room, he’ll never leave it near me.’

Later on, with Mario joining Chloe Sims, Gemma Collins, Mick Norcross, Joey Essex and his sister Frankie for a game of poker, Lucy was alone in his flat and couldn’t resist a glance at his iPad.

Busted! Lucy reads through Mario’s emails…

What the hell? Lucy is stunned by what she is reading

It wasn’t long before the tearful designer was back at Billi and Cara’s in tears admitting she had found a whole lot messages from her boyfriend to other women.

She said: ‘There’s lots of emails to different girls, 40 different girls.

‘I’m sitting there like a mug and he’s sitting there together with his iPad that I f**king bought him messaging these girls.

‘Some of them are him asking them to send naked photos. One in every of them is to a lady on Christmas Day once I was lying with him cuddling him.’

I can’t believe it: Lucy asks Cara and Billi for advice

Secrets: Cara (right) admits Mario have been texting her too

Away from Lucy within the kitchen, it appeared Cara was also one of the most women Mario have been contacting.

She told Billi: ‘What am I gonna do about these texts? I wanna tell her, but i do not believe today is the proper time. He’s a suitable p***k isn’t he?’

Later back at home, Lucy sent Mario a text saying: ‘Its good to work out you place your iPad to good use.’

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Hitting the fan: A furious Lucy texts her boyfriend

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It’ll all pop out inside the wash: Angry Lucy texts away

At the poker, Mario reads his text, then suddenly takes to the air his hat and glasses and abruptly leaves, leaving his fellow players stunned.

Turning up at Lucy’s house, Mario pleads to be let in so he can speak to her, but a devastated Lucy isn’t having any of it.

She opens the blinds to work out him during the window and shakes her head when he asks to talk to her, before shutting them again.

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Found out: Mario reads his text from Lucy and calls time on his poker grame with Joey Essex

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Who’s winning? Mario left his girlfriend at home to play poker with Frankie, Chloe, Diags, Joey, Mick and Gemma

Meanwhile, Arg is struggling to come back to terms along with his split from Lydia in Sunday’s episode and feels abandoned by his friends.

He results in the pub for a heart-to-heart with Sam Faiers, who advises him to offer Lydia some space.

While leaving the pub, he bumps into Lauren Goodger and Lauren Pope and confronts the previous about butting into his relationship when he turned up at Lydia’s 21st birthday dinner on Sunday’s episode.

He said: ‘I think you were out of order.’

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Awkward: James ‘Arg’ Argent confronts Lauren Goodger over her behaviour at Lydia Bright’s birthday

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‘Stop suffocating her’: Lauren G tells Arg to depart Lydia alone

When Lauren G protested: ‘I’ve 100 per cent been there for you,’ Arg interjected: ‘you haven’t been there. Lydia’s got her mother and her friends. i have no person.’

Lauren G told him to ‘stop suffocating her’, adding: ‘You’re not giving her space. I’m there for you. i am not ganging up on you. Man up, I’m there for either one of you.’

However, an indignant Arg told Lauren G she couldn’t be friends with them both and told her to stay with Lydia: ‘I’ll do my very own thing.’

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It’s all kicking off: Sam and Billie Faiers argue over their workload within the shop

And it appeared Arg and Lauren G weren’t the sole ones arguing – Sam and her older sister Billie were also clashing over their work of their boutique Minnie’s.

Sam told her sister: ‘Sometimes i believe which you don’t wanna work here up to you’ll want to.’

Clearly defensive, Billie hit back: ‘My job role is to move buying, work every weekend. When was the last time you went buying?’

Sam complained: ‘You just come here, choose an outfit for tonight and go home… You appear to be you’re from the zoo in that oufit.’

Billie bit back: ‘Well you seem like you’re from Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.’

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Feud: Sam accused Billie of using the boutique as a spot to get outfits for nights out