James ‘Arg’ Argent, Lauren Pope and Chloe Sims were left terrified after a technical fault on their flight to Ibiza meant they were forced to turn back.
The trio – all of whom star in popular reality show ‘The Only Way is Essex’ – were among the cast jetting off to the Spanish island to film special episodes.
However, their flight from Gatwick airport encountered technical problems, causing Arg to text his on/off girlfriend Lydia Bright: "We were halfway from London but had to turn back because of technical s**t."
The Sun newspaper reports the drama continued when the Towie cast were in the airport, where a fellow passenger was tasered by police.
Towie star Elliott Wright explained how his girlfriend Chloe, 31, saw the incident.
He said: "There was someone screaming in the terminal and police tasered them. My Chloe said things couldn’t get any worse.
"She is a nervous flyer and is beside herself."
The man at the centre of the incident was suspected of being drunk.
The TOWIE crew, meanwhile, were forced to board a coach to Luton, where they got another flight to Ibiza, arriving eight hours late.
Towie crew endure flight drama at Gatwick
