Natasha Argent has also appeared on Take Me Out (Picture: ITV)

The London Marathon organisers have confirmed to Metro.co.uk that The Only Way Is Essex’s Natasha Argent will return her finisher’s medal amid the ongoing cheating scandal.

Natasha’s London Marathon results have also been removed from the official website following an investigation by the marathon organisers.

The sister of James Argent was asked by the organising team to explain the missing split times in her results from Sunday April 24, as she was registered as missing checkpoints 13 – 23 along the route.

‘Our results team has been in touch with Natasha Argent, along with a small number of other runners, to request an explanation for the missing split times in her results from Sunday’s Virgin Money London Marathon,’ Hugh Brasher, Event Director of the Virgin Money London Marathon exclusively told Metro.co.uk.




‘At her request, we have removed her results from the system and she will be returning her finisher’s medal to us.’

The now deleted picture (Picture: Instagram/James Argent)

Natasha has now made all of her social media accounts private since the accusations emerged, and brother James has now deleted a congratulatory tweet and a picture of Natasha with her medal.

A picture from James before the race, which showed him running it in 2012 and which wished Natasha luck is still live on his account.

James and Natasha Argent (Picture: Twitter/Natasha Argent)

Because of the discrepancy, Natasha’s split times showed that it took her over two hours to complete the race’s first 20k but the last 20k was run in an incredibly quick 48 minutes.

Which is quicker than Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah.

(Picture: London Marathon)

(Picture: London Marathon)

Natasha was running to raise money for London Youth, a charity which ‘supports and challenges young people to become the best they can be’.

The charity later tweeted that they were ‘aware of the allegations against a #LondonMarathon runner re chip discrepancies & have notified #VMLM2016 who are looking into it’.

Metro.co.uk has contacted reps for Natasha for comment.

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