Reality star Joey Essex has claimed to be all at sea when it comes to knowing about politics. So he joined Nigel Farage on a boat trip in Grimsby this morning to try and understand his general election plans. Before boarding the boat, Essex told reporters that the only thing he knew about the party leader was he is a 'really, really reem guy'. Mr Farage quipped: 'I think that's good... I'm not sure.' As the stunt took a bizarre twist, the Ukip leader hailed the TV star as an 'icon of youth'. Scroll down for video . TOWIE star Joey Essex today met Ukip leader Nigel Farage in Grimsby as part of his project to find out about the election . Essex told reporters the Ukip leader is a 'really, really reem guy' before boarding a boat and heading out to sea . Essex is speaking to the leaders of the four major political parties for the first episode of his ITV2 mini-series Educating Joey Essex, to be aired later this month. The TV star told Mr Farage: '‎Basically I don't really understand much about political life and I'm trying to show the youth it's good to vote.' Mr Farage said‎: 'What I'm going to try do is give you my opinions, which you'll either love or hate.' He later told BBC News: 'Over half the young people in Britain don't vote at all. 'If some of the icons of youth like Joey here can actually look at this, spend a bit of time, understand this, and inform an opinion, perhaps you'll get more young people voting.' The Ukip leader chose the nautical setting for his one-on-one with the 24-year-old star of The Only Way Is Essex as they both have fishing connections. Mr Farage is a keen angler and has a monthly column in a sea fishing magazine. Essex, who famously admitted on TV that he cannot tell the time, used to work at Billingsgate fish market. Essex asked:‎ 'Why are we in Grimsby?‎' The Ukip leader said: ‎'It's symbolic of what's gone wrong, if we came here forty years ago there were thousands of men working here and a massive trawler fleet, it was the biggest fishing port in the country. 'We joined the European Union and now have to share all our fish with all the other countries.‎ And what we're saying is let's take our country and our territorial waters back, let's get our fishing industry back.' In response, Essex said: 'Sick.' When Mr Farage added that he wanted a bigger British fishing industry, Essex added: 'Wicked.' Mr Farage said he was visiting Grimsby because he wanted to 'get our fishing industry back' Asked if he was going to explain what a vajazzle is to Mr Farage said: 'It's not my thing. You'd better ask a girl out of Towie for that' Asked if he was going to explain what a vajazzle is to Mr Farage said: 'It's not my thing. You'd better ask a girl out of Towie for that.' Essex talked to Mr Farage about working at Billingsgate fish marker. Asked what I thought of Mr Farage, Essex said: 'He's a really, really reem guy.' Mr Farage said: 'I think that's good, I'm not sure. Reem? Interesting. What does that mean?' Essex explained: 'It means cool, wicked, sick.' Mr Farage recently revealed he has a secret nocturnal passion for fishing alone on the Kent coast. He said: 'One thing I can fit in to my working life is shore fishing because I can do it at night. 'I might have had a busy day in London, but I might nip down to the coast and have three or four hours through to the early hours of the morning fishing.' Mr Farage added that it's his way of staying sane amid the relentless pressures of modern politics and that sleep is a waste of time. Mr Farage is a keen angler and has a monthly column in a sea fishing magazine. He recently revealed he has a secret nocturnal passion for fishing alone on the Kent coast. Essex, who famously admitted on TV that he cannot tell the time, used to work at Billingsgate fish market. Essex found fame on the ITV show The Only Way Is Essex, which was responsible for popularising the 'vajazzle'. The beauty treatment involves women having plastic gem stones being stuck onto the skin near very personal parts of the body. The programme's stars are also well-known for their love of fake tans. Mr Farage said he was looking forward to meeting Essex, but asked if he had ever watched The Only Way Is Essex, he said: 'I have to confess no.' He added that he watched no television programmes. The Ukip leader said he did not know what a vajazzle is, adding: 'No I haven't a clue.' When asked if he had ever had a fake tan, he said: 'Do you know something, it's one of the things I've not got round to.‎' Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg posed for a selfie with Essex after explaining to the reality star that his party is not called the 'Liberal Demo-cats' At the weekend Essex attended a Labour party rally at Parr Hall in Warrington, where he met party leader Ed Miliband . Essex asked David Cameron a question via Heat magazine last week and also held a meeting with Ed Miliband. When he joined Nick Clegg on the campaign trail he mistakenly thought he was leader of the 'Liberal Demo-cats'. Mr Clegg also had to explain that he was not called 'Mr Leg'. When Mr Clegg explained that he had been Deputy PM for five years, Essex told him he was 'sick' - slang for good. After being told the Liberal Democrats was 'a long word, innit?', Mr Clegg - who has never watched TOWIE - simply nodded politely. The interview ended with the pair having a selfie together.
Reality TV star is meeting party leaders to try to understand the election .
Essex boarded a boat after telling reporters he 'likes fish and stuff'
Farage is a keen angler and Essex used to work at Billingsgate fish market .
Ukip leader 'hasn't a clue' what a vajazzle is and has never had a fake tan .