TOWIE is partly filmed where I used to live, Loughton, and as some know I used to be a postman. My mate was delivering to a shop where it was being filmed one morning, and as he did so, the director shouted "film the postman, film the postman!"
He said don't you dare, people think I'm an idiot already without being on this tripe (though he used another word). Apparently the look on their faces was priceless.