Vicky Pattison had big dreams of being the UK’s Carrie Bradshaw when she was at uni, but things ended up turning out very different when MTV came calling
Strictly star Vicky Pattison has confessed she was so hard-up before finding fame she use to nick bog rolls. The reality telly beauty struggled financially as a student in Liverpool before landing her breakthrough role in Geordie Shore.
Vicky, 37, admitted: “All of that university life thing is amazing, but it is hard, too. I have memories of stealing toilet rolls from bars because I’d run out of money to buy my own.
“I used to live above a bar, and come the end of the week, I’d go there to buy a burger and a beer for a fiver (which apparently I did have money for) and go into the loo and steal the toilet tissue.
“And when you’ve done that for three years, it starts to take its toll on your soul.
“I didn’t come out of there in a good position to face the world. I was naïve, skint and starting to get scared.
“Unsure of what to do next, I ran straight back home to Newcastle with my tail between my legs.”
Vicky said she moved back in with her family and got a part-time job in a jean store called G-Star in a bid to get back on her feet.
She continued: “I remember thinking, I’m just coming home for a few months. I’ll save up enough money, and then I’ll move to London.
“And I believed it. As a student, I’d toyed with the idea of being a journalist and becoming the London version of Carrie Bradshaw.
“I imagined that at this point in my life I’d be this sassy writer, living a fabulous life and influencing an entire generation of women with my witty and salacious words, wearing Jimmy Choos and having sexy and adventurous encounters with mysterious and handsome fellas.
“Instead, I was living back home with my mam and dad, in my childhood bedroom, Blu-tac still on the walls from my Take That posters, and a 1am curfew – not striding around Piccadilly Circus in my tutu, inspiring a nation of women.”
But her life changed forever when the then-time party girl was spotted by undercover MTV producers scouting for would-be reality stars in north-east nightclubs.
She added: “I do remember it being the time in my life when I had the least ambition. I could go out every night of the week.
“I knew all the doormen in Newcastle. I didn’t have to queue anywhere.
“I never paid for a drink… and I remember thinking, life doesn’t get any better than this. Sad cow.
“This was the stagnant mindset I was in when Geordie Shore appeared on my horizon in 2011.”
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