Vicky Pattison: ‘I pick the worst guys – I have terrible taste’

Vicky Pattison

by Georgina Terry |
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After weathering her fair share of failed showbiz romances, Vicky Pattison admits that she hasn’t had the best luck in love

She’s found love again with boyfriend Ercan Ramadan, and regularly shares loved-up pictures of the pair together on exotic holidays.

But last November it was a different story for Vicky Pattison, after her then-fiancé John Noble was filmed getting close to a girl in a Dubai nightclub.

She called off their engagement, and admitted later to “crumbling inside”.

Although Vicky hasn’t spoken openly about Ercan, she said recently, “I’m having fun, I’m smiling again. But she admits she had a habit of going for bad boys in the past.

“I don’t have very good luck,” says Vicky.

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A fresh-faced Vicky Pattison first tore onto our screens on MTV's Geordie Shore in 2011. Back then she was 23, was working in telesales. . . and fresh out of a relationship with local lad John Noble. With a mega-watt TV career on the horizon, which hunky lads would this 'VIP' set her sights on?

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'Dad of the group' Jay – so dubbed for the semblance of sanity he was riddled with – made quite the match for balshy Vicky during their short lived romance in series one. But the love affair wasn't to last, as Jay announced he was leaving the show at the end of series three to focus on his relationship (not the one with Vick, FYI).

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Yet by the time of Jay's teary departure, Vicky had already shacked up with another Geordie Shore co-star. In fact, that very same episode saw Ricci Guarnaccio propose to her during dinner in Cancun. Sadly, early on in the next series Ricci asked for the ring back after Vicky got a naked spray tan (or something), and Vicky has since called him'spoiled', 'arrogant', and condemned their relationship as 'hell'. Sadface.

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Fit Dan

Another one from the Geordie Shore archive, Vicky met Fit Dan (AKA Dan Conn) while filming series 6 in Australia, and he really was very fit. A former pin up boy from Australia's NRL, Dan was working as a fitness guru in his native Sydney (go figure).

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Dan Conn

Sure, their initial romance was short-lived, but Vicky has called Dan 'the one that got away' and they've reuinited a number of times, most notably on 2014's Ex on the Beach, where Ricci was also an islander. In 2017 Dan met up with Vicky in Newcastle, and said he was "genuinely happy" she had found love with John.

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Kirk Norcross

Vick dated OG TOWIE boii Kirk Norcross in late 2013, first spotted together cosying up over a mulled vino at Winter Wonderland. Kirk was not long out of a relationship with alt model Cami Li, which set sparks flying when all three of them appeared on Ex on the Beach the following year. What was really awkward, though, was when Kirk confessed his love for Vick - who then went on to crack on with Stephen Bear hours later. She also said she'd "never loved him" in a 2015 column for New! magazine. Ouch.

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Gaz Beadle

Now, this one was the real shocker! Vicky and Gaz Beadle had been alpha-ing all over G Shore since season 1, but never did we ever expect them to hook up. But following a few too many Jaegers and a night in the hot tub, that's exactly what they found themselves doing. The following morning, Vicky called it an "all time personal low". We've all been there, pet.

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Maybe the horror of doing the Parsnip was too much for Vicky to bear, because it wasn't long following her and Gaz's traumatic hook up that she hung up her Geordie shoes to focus on her relationship. Who was the special lad? Former Ice hockey player James Morgan, who'd already done the reality TV rounds with TOWIE's Maria Fowler.

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James Morgan

"At our age we've all got an ex we'd rather forget. Frankly, she's an attention seeker," she told Daily Star at the time. " 'I've rushed that before and it didn't go well, so with James I just want to do everything right. What we have is so special and so right- we just want to enjoy every stage. I've never felt like this before. I think he's definitely the one." Shortly after quitting the show, Vick and James broke up, and he was later arrested and jailed for armed robbery. So not a nice guy, in the end. thank u, next.

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Oh, Bear. Bear, Bear, Bear. As lovable as he is (in a weird way), we're still gobsmacked that so many savvy sleb ladies give him the time of day, given his appalling track record with fidelity. They met on (quelle surprise) Ex on the Beach, and ever the gentleman, Bear was not coy describing their sex life on leaving the show. "Our sex life is f@!king sick. It's the best sex I've ever had. It's blinding, so explosive. We are really passionate about it and we are really madly in love," he said."I always tie her up and she f@!king loves it. I wear the trousers in the bedroom and she knows it." Charming.

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Stephen Bear

In a SHOCKING (not) turn of events, Bear proved to be unfaithful to our Vick, and then went on to date her former Geordie Shore co-star Charlotte Crosby. But Vicky isn't one to let bad behaviour slide, and said at the time: "He's literally been the most vile, horrendous, snaky, conniving and manipulative person I have ever met.""I'm truly shocked that I've allowed myself to get so taken in - but there you go. Love is blind, or in my case, blind, deaf, stupid."

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If it was up to us, these two would have lived happily ever after and sailed off into the sunset way back in 2015, when they first worked as co-stars on MTV spin off Judge Geordie. Vick described male model Alex Cannon as 'carved by angels'. The two were already close pals when he went into the Big Brother house in 2016.

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Alex Cannon

The two of them have always insisted that they're "just good friends" (booooo!) but she definitely gave some conflicted messages during an appearance on Loose Women in 2016. "I'm so in love with him, man. I don't know, I can't work it out… we said we'd marry each other when we're 30 and we definitely will at some point, but I'm so confused by my feelings for him," she said. She also revealed Alex had been an ongoing point of contention during her relationship with Bear, when the two of them were presenting together.

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Alex Bowen

With unrequited love for Alex Cannon swirling in the background, it's no wonder that following her split from Bear Vicky was after some casual romance. Over Christmas 2015 and New Year, she stepped out on home turf with another male model (and another Alex), Alex Bowen. The couple were reportedly introduced before Vicky headed out to Australia to film I'm A Celeb (which she then went on to win). The romance was not to last, and Alex is now married to Olivia Buckland who he met on the 2016 of Love Island.

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With her career seriously taken off thanks to her stint in the Jungle, 2016 was the year of the reality TV romance for Vicky. Having been running in the same circles for years, she began dating TOWIE's Mario Falcone, although kept it under wraps for weeks. She eventually spilled all after they'd split, saying on Loose Women, "Mario was very sweet, I suppose a bit more like the girl in the relationship, he would text and say 'Oh I miss you, you're really busy'. ""And I suppose I had to concede 'yes I am, I'm sorry.'

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They met briefly in the jungle before Spencer was kicked out for a drug addiction, but Vicky had already caught feelings. "I only spent a couple of days with him, but we couldn't stop smiling at each other. Would I have done a bit with Spencer? Probably," she wrote in her autobiography. However, they DID in fact end up going on a date after he sent her "100 red roses", They reportedly didn't work out because Spence was too posh and didn't understand her accent (?!), but they remain close friends. Awh.

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Vick and John rekindled their romance in 2016, with John proposing in 2017 and plans to marry earlier this year. However, the plans fell through after Vicky admitted neither of them were in the right place, and their relationship was destroyed following the string of cheating allegations that plagued John's lads holiday in Dubai this autumn.

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Ercan Ramadan

Just months after her engagement crashed and burned, Vicky went public with one-time TOWIE star Ercan Ramadan, who she met through mutual friends and spent the New Year with. The cute couple split briefly earlier this year over fears they were moving too fast, but have since reconciled and look happier than ever.

“I pick the worst guys. I will hold my hands up and say I’ve got terrible taste.

“I go for superficial – it’s a character flaw. I pick guys who look a certain way. They’re utter c*nts. There is nothing there other than the fact that you want to take their clothes off.”

Vicky, 31, has often hit the headlines for her roller-coaster love life. In 2013, she broke off her engagement to her Geordie Shore co-star Ricci Guarnaccio, a romance she described afterwards as “hell”.

She later had on/off romance with Shipwrecked star Stephen Bear in 2015, but it ended in tears again, and she dubbed him “the most snakey man I ever met”. She also pursueda string of unsuccessful romances with reality stars, including Mario Falcone, Spencer Matthews and Joss Mooney.

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Now Vicky reveals that she thinks men often felt intimidated by her rising celeb status.

She says, “The reality of being with a successful woman isn’t as fun as the idea of it. It takes someone with a lot of self-worth. Men feel emasculated. So they act out in ways that are traditionally masculine – like sh*gging around.”

With the suicides of Love Island contestants Mike Thalassitis and Sophie Gradon having provoked calls for reality TV stars to get more mental health support, Vicky admits that the young cast-members of Geordie Shore were often left high and dry by producers, who cut them off from the outside world to ensure explosive TV.

“Reality TV is difficult, it’s a very invasive process,” admits Vicky, who has expressed regret over having sex on the show.

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“I wasn’t strong enough to do it at times. I regret certain things I’ve done on it.

“We were ‘car crash’ and controversial, and we were not ready. I was skint – making more money in a call centre than I was off Geordie Shore. MTV had to give us a retainer, as some of us had to go back to work.

“They wanted to put us in this bubble, so everything we felt was heightened. If I had been able to talk to my mum, I wouldn’t have cared. You have no books, no phones, no contact with the outside world. We came across as vapid idiots. At the time, I didn’t realise how much I was being exploited.”

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Since leaving Geordie Shore in 2013, two years after she joined, Vicky’s landed presenting stints on Loose Women and This Morning, and won I’m A Celeb! in 2015.

Vicky adds, “The high point of I’m A Celeb! was the trials and challenges. You get this rush and sense of achievement. But Geordie Shore was about fighting and fu*cking. It is toxic. And the jungle is about proving yourself, coming together and making the nation fall in love with you. It’s the complete opposite.”

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Vicky has endured the “year from hell” after the sudden death of her best friend Paul Burns and her split from John, following two years together.

She sparked concern after she was seen looking dishevelled, walking around a Spanish airport, later admitting she’d “[drunk] too much wine”. But Vicky’s determined to start afresh and admits closing the door on her engagement heartache has been key.

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She says, “People thought we were going to get back together. I will never get back with him. He’s shown disrespect. Once the trust has gone in any relationship, I can’t go back. I wanted to show the world how much he hurt me [in her reality show, The Break Up]. Within a few days, I knew I was going to be OK. Imagine if I fu*cking married him! I wanted to show men and women, you can come out better.”

Vicky was speaking on Jamie Laing and Francis Boulle’s podcast Private Parts

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