Vicky Pattison had huge goals of being the UK’s Carrie Bradshaw when she was at uni, however issues ended up turning out very completely different when MTV got here calling
Strictly star Vicky Pattison has confessed she was so hard-up earlier than discovering fame she use to nick lavatory rolls. The truth telly magnificence struggled financially as a pupil in Liverpool earlier than touchdown her breakthrough position in Geordie Shore.
Vicky, 37, admitted: “All of that college life factor is wonderful, however it’s onerous, too. I’ve recollections of stealing rest room rolls from bars as a result of I’d run out of cash to purchase my very own.
“I used to stay above a bar, and are available the top of the week, I’d go there to purchase a burger and a beer for a fiver (which apparently I did have cash for) and go into the john and steal the bathroom tissue.
“And while you’ve executed that for 3 years, it begins to take its toll in your soul.
“I didn’t come out of there in an excellent place to face the world. I used to be naïve, skint and beginning to get scared.
“Uncertain of what to do subsequent, I ran straight again residence to Newcastle with my tail between my legs.”
Vicky stated she moved again in together with her household and obtained a part-time job in a jean retailer known as G-Star in a bid to get again on her toes.
She continued: “I bear in mind pondering, I’m simply coming residence for a number of months. I’ll save up sufficient cash, after which I’ll transfer to London.
“And I believed it. As a pupil, I’d toyed with the thought of being a journalist and changing into the London model of Carrie Bradshaw.
“I imagined that at this level in my life I’d be this sassy author, dwelling a wonderful life and influencing a complete era of ladies with my witty and salacious phrases, carrying Jimmy Choos and having horny and adventurous encounters with mysterious and good-looking fellas.
“As a substitute, I used to be dwelling again residence with my mam and pa, in my childhood bed room, Blu-tac nonetheless on the partitions from my Take That posters, and a 1am curfew – not striding round Piccadilly Circus in my tutu, inspiring a nation of ladies.”
However her life modified perpetually when the then-time occasion lady was noticed by undercover MTV producers scouting for would-be actuality stars in north-east nightclubs.
She added: “I do bear in mind it being the time in my life after I had the least ambition. I might exit each evening of the week.
“I knew all of the doormen in Newcastle. I didn’t should queue wherever.
“I by no means paid for a drink… and I bear in mind pondering, life doesn’t get any higher than this. Unhappy cow.
“This was the stagnant mindset I used to be in when Geordie Shore appeared on my horizon in 2011.”
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