Parents Kate and Gerry of missing Madeleine McCann have faced criticism recently from celebrities like Sharon Osbourne and Katie Price.
“I will tell you a very quick story,” she said.
“There was a husband and wife on holiday in Portugal. They left their baby in the room sleeping, sleeping while they went to dinner in the restaurant.
“While they were in the resort their baby was taken.
“And it is like, ‘Oh but we can see everything that is going on’ and it is, like, insane.”
And shortly after Sharon’s comments, mum-of-five Katie Price also spoke her opinion on ITV’s Loose Women, agreeing with the X Factor judge.
She said: “Doesn’t matter who you are, you do not leave your children.
“In what right mind would you leave your kids alone?”
But now former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison has hit out at people negatively commenting on Kate and Gerry.
Jumping to their defence, Vicky discussed the comments made by Sharon saying: "It's hard for me to have an opinion as I'm not a parent but I do feel discussing the issue after what the McCanns have been through is just unnecessary.”
Speaking in her column for new! magazine, Vicky explained why she feels “everyone should back off” from Maddie’s parents.
She said: "I bet there's not a day that goes by where they don’t beat themselves up over what happened. Surely nothing Sharon – or anyone else – can say can make them feel any worse.
"I think everyone should just back off!"
The 28 year old also recently took to Twitter to announce she had changed her Instagram handle – taking away the reference to Geordie Shore.
Vicky told her fans: “Well here it is.. It was time for a new chapter and I couldn't avoid it any longer! I'm now @vickypattison on insta!”
Vicky has made a career for herself outside of the MTV programme, including appearing on other TV shows, launching her nutrition range and clothing line.
She is also set to appear regularly on Loose Women, where her opinion about such topics like Madeleine McCann are often featured.
Earlier this week it was announced that Kate and Gerry have lodged a legal bid against detective Goncalo Amaral, who published a book about Madeleine’s case titled Maddie: The Truth About The Lie.
Goncalo was part of the police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance from a resort in Portugal’s Algarve region in May 2007.
In the book, Amaral claims that Madeleine had died in the holiday apartment where the family were staying, and also claimed Kate and Gerry faked her abduction to cover up the tragedy.
The 57 year old former policeman was ordered to pay £380,000 in libel damages, however in April this year, Portuguese judges overturned the payout after Amaral appealed the ruling.
But now, lawyers for Kate, 48, and Gerry, 47, have submitted an appeal to Portugal’s Supreme Court, after the ruling was overturned.
A friend of the parents told The Sun: “They are exasperated by this. The longer it goes on the more anguish it causes.”
Madeleine McCann was three-years-old when she disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007.
Maddie’s parents, Kate and Gerry, had left the little girl and her two-year-old twin siblings sleeping in their holiday home as they dined with friends at a restaurant 50 metres away.
They checked on the children throughout the evening, at roughly half-hour intervals, until Madeleine's mother discovered she was missing at 22:00.
Since then, they have campaigned tirelessly for information as to their daughter’s whereabouts.
It has been nine years since Madeleine McCann disappeared - and she would now be 13-years-old.
On 3rd May 2016, the anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance, her parents shared a message on their Find Madeleine website.
It read: “As yet another anniversary comes around, we’d like to thank all our supporters for your continued help and commitment in the search for Madeleine, and the hope for her safe return.
“It has been a very long time but the investigation continues, information is still forthcoming and our hope and resolve continue. Until we have answers, until there is news, there will always be hope and we will continue to do everything we can to help find Madeleine.
“The charity Missing People is releasing the single I Hope on May 20 ahead of International Missing Children’s Day. Please support the charity to help all missing children and their families by downloading the song.”
Tragically, the couple are still no closer to finding out where Madeleine is - or what happened that fateful night in Praia Da Luz.
However, in a new interview, police officers have revealed that there is a chance that Maddie could be found alive - nine years after her disappearance.
Detective Chief Superintendent Mick Duthie, the head of Scotland Yard’s homicide squad told the Evening Standard: “There is ongoing work. There is always a possibility that we will find Madeleine and we hope that we will find her alive.
“That’s what we want and that’s what the family and the public want and that is why the Home Office continue to fund it.”
He added: “There is work that needs to be done still.”
It was recently revealed that Scotland Yard had been given more money to help with the Find Maddie investigation - but the funds came with a time frame.
They now look set to close the investigation in six months, whether or not they manage to track down the little girl.
Operation Grange will now continue until early October, until the extra £94,592 runs out.
Once the money is gone, Scotland Yard will have to end the five-year inquiry, which has cost £12 million already.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Following a request from the Metropolitan Police Service, we have agreed to provide nearly £95,000 of further funding for Operation Grange.”
A Scotland Yard spokesperson said: “The inquiry has not reached a conclusion. There are still focused lines of investigation to be pursued.
“There are no immediate plans to reduce office numbers further at this time.”
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