Vicky Pattison

Victoria Pattison-Ramadan (born 16 November 1987) is a British television personality, media personality, radio presenter and author. She is best known for appearing in the MTV shows Geordie Shore from 2011 until 2014, Ex on the Beach in 2014 and 2015 and her own show, Judge Geordie, in 2015.

Pattison won the fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in December 2015 and became a permanent member on the panel of the ITV daytime chat show Loose Women in January 2016. She was also a team captain on the Channel 5 panel show It's Not Me, It's You and co-presented I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp in 2016. She was partnered with Kai Widdrington in the twenty-third series of Strictly Come Dancing (2025).

Early life Before Geordie Shore, Pattison enjoyed drama in school. She had various jobs, including working on the door of some of Newcastle's nightclubs and in telesales. She has a degree in drama from Liverpool John Moores University.

Media career Geordie Shore

Pattison appeared in the MTV show Geordie Shore from 2011 to 2014 in the first series of the show. She had a short relationship with the fellow co-star Jay Gardner. After her appearance on the show, she was featured on the front cover of Loaded magazine in October 2011 with The Only Way Is Essex star Jess Wright and the Made in Chelsea star Binky Felstead. She also appeared in Nuts magazine with another Geordie Shore star, Holly Hagan. In the second series of the show, Pattison began a turbulent on/off relationship with a new cast member, Ricci Guarnaccio. She and a former cast member, Rebecca Walker, were shown not to get on with each other, leading to constant conflict in the Geordie Shore house. Her catchphrase "tash on" became a new entry in the online Collins Dictionary. Her peculiar speech style became the object of much public attention: the use of words like "ostentatious" and "euphoric" "in a Geordie Shore context of expletives" was described "as a 'stretch', a way of testing expressive limits, that is a form of catachresis". Pattison was in Cancun, Mexico, during the third series where, during filming, Guarnaccio proposed to her.

In the fifth series, Pattison calls off her engagement with Guarnaccio and ultimately ends the relationship. Guarnaccio later decided to leave the show following the break-up. In December 2013, she released her own fitness DVD entitled Vicky's 7 Day Slim. Before the beginning of the ninth series, she announced that it would be her last, making her final appearance during the series's finale.

Get A Grip Love

Pattison co-hosts a regular podcast, Get A Grip with Irish broadcaster Angela Scanlon, in which they discuss topical issues.

Legal issues

In July 2013, during filming for the seventh series of Geordie Shore, Pattison was arrested after throwing a high-heeled shoe at another club goer whom she incorrectly believed had thrown ice at her, and injuring a member of the venue's security staff who had intervened. She later pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and was sentenced to 180 hours of unpaid community service and ordered to pay compensation to the two victims.

Personal life In 2023, Pattison spoke about her experience of oocyte cryopreservation, and said she would donate any eggs she did not use.

Pattison married Ercan Ramadan, the owner of a clothing brand, at Marylebone Town Hall in August 2024. A second ceremony took place in Italy in September. The wedding was the subject of the E4 programme Vicky Pattison: My Big Fat Geordie Wedding.

Pattison wrote the book The Secret to Happy talking about her struggles with body image and childhood trauma.

Television career

In 2014 and 2015, Pattison starred in the MTV reality television show Ex on the Beach.

Starting from June 2015, Pattison presented and starred in her own MTV show, in which she tries to sort out feuds and problems between families, friends and relationships in Judge Geordie. which were published in July (All That Glitters) and October 2015 (A Christmas Kiss). In 2015, Despite struggling to cope with the smell of the jungle, she went on to win fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. In January, she also speaking about her time on the show, appeared in a special two-part Geordie Shore. On 16 October 2018, Pattison partnered with Dom Joly in a show that saw them going "on the run" as "fugitives" in Channel 4's Celebrity Hunted.

In January 2025, it was announced that Pattison would appear in a documentary called Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape. The programme, in which Pattison released her own AI-generated deepfake porn video, was criticised by campaigners and abuse survivors' groups as "insulting", "pointless" and "gross".

In August 2025, Pattison was announced as a contestant on the upcoming twenty-third series of Strictly Come Dancing. Her partner in the series was Kai Widdrington. She was eliminated from the competition on 16 November 2025.

Radio career On 16 August 2023, it was confirmed that Pattison would join Heart North East to present the weekday drivetime show with Adam Lawrance.

Since 1 March 2025, Pattison has presented Saturday afternoons on the Heart network, replacing Mark Wright.

Filmography Television Year Title Role Notes 2011–2014 Geordie Shore Herself Series 1–9 - Main cast 2013, 2015 Big Brother's Bit on the Side Guest, 2 episodes 2014, 2015 Ex on the Beach Series 1 - Main cast; 8 episodes, Series 3 - Ex; 3 episodes 2015 Celebrity Dinner Date 1 episode Judge Geordie Presenter, 10 episodes I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK) Series 15 - Contestant; winner 2015–2019, 2022 Loose Women Regular panellist (2015–2019), Guest panellist (2022) 2016 Geordie Shore: Their Journey Discussing the history of Geordie Shore It's Not Me, It's You Team captain; 7 episodes World of Weird Co-presenter Strip Date Narrator / voice-over I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp Co-presenter; 20 episodes Murder in Successville Series 2 - Guest sidekick; Episode: "Vigilante" Drunk History: UK Disgusted Lady / Wellington's Mistress Series 2; 2 episodes: "Richard III / Mary Shelly's Frankenstein" and "Battle of Waterloo / Arthur Conan Doyle" 2016–2017 Virtually Famous Herself Panellist / Team captain; 8 episodes Celebrity Juice Panellist; 8 episodes 2016, 2018–2020, 2022-present This Morning Road trip segment along with Ferne McCann (2016), Showbiz reporter (2018–2020, 2022-present) 2017 Who Shot Simon Cowell? TV film; Party guest 2018 Ex on the Beach: Body SOS Presenter; 8 episodes Say Yes to the Dress: UK Participant I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Aus) Season 4 - Contestant; fourth place Celebrity Hunted Series 2 - Contestant, paired with Dom Joly; 5 episodes Impossible Celebrities Contestant; series regular; 6 episodes 2019 Vicky Pattison: The Break Up Documentary following Pattison's life Celebrity Coach Trip Series 5 2019–2022 Celebrity Masterchef Series 14 - Contestant; 3 episodes, Series 15–17 - Guest judge; 3 episodes 2020 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Series 16 - Segment presenter 2021 Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins Series 3 - Contestant; 3 episodes Buffering Series 1; Episode: "Screen Test" 2022 Vicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me Documentary 2023 Pilgrimage: The Road through Portugal Participant; 3 episodes 2024The Underdog: Josh Must WinMy Big Fat Geordie WeddingDocumentary following Pattison's weddingSecond-Hand ShowdownSeries 2 - Presenter Strictly Come Dancing HerselfContestant; series 23 2026 The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off Contestant; series 9 Vicky Pattison: Maybe, Baby? Two-part documentary