Amy Childs changes into a purple gown after making a massive fashion faux pas… (PICS)

Everyone dreads turning up a party in the same outfit as someone else, but not everyone has the resources at hand to rustle up an ensemble at the last second just in case this embarrassing situation arises.

Amy Childs does it seems; she turned up to the Pia Michi fashion show in London last night in the same leopard print frock as Heartbeat star Tricia Penrose.

Unfortunately Tricia pulled ranked on Amy and refused to change out of her dress forcing the former TOWIE star to find another gown at the last second. A source at the party said:

'Everyone told Tricia to take it off but she said, "I've been around longer than Amy. I was in Heatbeak for 18 years so she can take hers off!"

'So in the end Amy had to take hers off.'

Thank god Trisha let us all know she was in Heartbeat otherwise we wouldn’t have had a clue who she is. Actually we’re still not sure. Anyway, point is Amy managed to get hold of this purple dress, so it all worked out in the end. There – now you can all sleep soundly tonight.

Other celebrities at the party included the likely Nicola McLean, Harry Derbidge, Vanessa Feltz, Lizzie Cundy plus loads of other people whose names we won’t bore you with (alright you got us, we just can’t be arsed to type out their names).