Geordie Shore is back in less than a month (yep, really!) and we're feeling very excited. To get us in the mood, we recently met up with the show's newbies Chloe Etherington and Nathan Henry, who will be joining for the tenth series.
In true Geordie Shore style, they spoke a mile a minute and were soon nattering on about embarrassing moments when they lost their virginity, weeing themselves when they're drunk, and having huge arguments. Read on for what we found out about the duo...
1. They don't think Geordie Shore is any different from what uni students get up to.
"It's the same as any uni students living together, except for this is on TV," Nathan said. "I went to uni and in my final year I decided to choose to party quite a lot, so I didn't come out with the degree I wanted and then when this opportunity came up I thought, 'Why would I not want to get paid to live the lifestyle I wanted to live at uni and I don't have to go to uni?' I think anyone in the UK would be stupid to turn it down. So I did it and I haven't looked back since."
2. The only thing they're worried about is what they've forgotten doing when they were drunk...
Chloe said she isn't worried about anything being shown: "My mam, my family know I've got such a wild personality and they know how I am. I'm just always all over the place. They just know how I am. All my friends know how I am and say I'm absolutely perfect for the show, so no, I'm not worried at all." But she agreed with Nathan when he admitted he's worried about what he did when he was drunk. "There's stuff you get up to that you can't remember," he said. "I think that's the only thing I'm a bit worried about because it's like, 'Did I really do that?' Yeah, you did, it's on camera, there's no denying it."
3. Chloe is a bit of a lightweight.
"I get drunk off one drink and I don't know my limits, and my mam gets a bit worried when I go out," she admitted. "I'd sometimes end up by myself because I just wander off. She was obviously nervous about me going on Geordie Shore but you've got security and the cast and crew around, but she was just nervous because I don't know my limits."
4. Chloe's most embarrassing drunken moment ever involves losing her virginity.
"When I first lost my virginity and I was nervous, I was a bit drunk – I'd had a few sherries," she confessed. "And you know in porn when the girls say, 'Oh yeah' – I said a really cringy line and I literally haven't told anyone since. I thought, 'Ooh, it's not that bad is it?' But it is quite bad. I said it in such a porny way – I was like, 'F**k the p***y!' He was like, 'Eh? What was that?'" Nathan added: "I feel so sorry for the poor lad – having sex with you, he's just taken your virginity, and you say that in a creepy gremlin-y way. That would be a dealbreaker for me, I'd be like, 'Please get off me'."
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5. Nathan always pees himself when he's drunk.
"It's got to a point where it's not like one time – I'll do it four times in one night," he revealed. "I don't learn my lesson from the first time. And then I wake up in the morning and I don't remember. The other week, I stayed at a friend's and I slept on his couch, and I must have weed myself. I woke up in the morning and I was that hot that my body heat had dried my boxers and dried my trousers. And it wasn't until I actually got off the couch when I realised that there was a wet patch there and my socks were wringing wet – it had all gone down my socks and into my shoes – that I actually realised I'd pissed myself. I had some money in my pocket. This is what made me definitely realise that I'd pissed myself, because I took the £20 out of my pocket and it was soaking."
6. Nathan was worried about what the guys would think of his bisexuality - but didn't need to be.
"Joining the show was like being in a playground with kids that have already made friends and there are no schoolteachers or dinnerladies there and you've just been dropped off outside – you've got to make friends," he said. "I thought being bisexual the lads would be like, 'Ugh'. I was proper s**tting myself. I thought they'd be like, 'You can sit in the girls' room' or make me feel uncomfortable. Nah. Literally within two minutes Gary came up to us, was like, 'You're here because you're you, you're unique – we want you to have fun and do you'. The next day, Scott came up to us and made a joke – 'If you bring some fit birds to the house, we'll bring some fit lads for you'. Then after that, they were like, 'We want you to stay in our room, stay with us'. Literally, I gained four new brothers."
7. In terms of arguments, Chloe described these new episodes as "probably the most explosive series yet".
"Some of them aren't big arguments or intense, but some of them, when it goes off it goes," Nathan said. "There was a time when it was that bad, you'd wake up in the morning and go, 'For f**k's sake, I just want to go back to sleep again and tomorrow it'll be fine'. But the tension when you get up and everyone's making breakfast… We tried so many times to bring them back together. A lot of the things that we did failed, just flopped badly. But other times it worked – and then two days would go by, something else would happen, and someone else has fallen out with someone else or someone isn't talking to someone. It was just continuous."
8. Chloe had a moment when she wanted to leave the house.
"It was over a stupid argument," she said. "It was a real fight – not just an argument, a real, actual fist fight. It was all over nothing – that's the thing I most regret in the house, having this argument with someone I like and really got on with. It was stupid. I was just really upset and just wanted to go home just for one night and see my mam. It was really stupid – I was just really upset. It shouldn't have happened."
9. Chloe has history with Scott.
Nathan promised a "few hook-ups", a "few break-ups", and a "few make-ups", while Chloe promised a "really nice romance" ("It's really, really cute"). But we wanted to know more about Chloe's history with Scott: "It's not major, but I do have a bit of history with Scott." We asked if she went in the house wanting more: "I went in the house just wanting to have a good time, not to have any relationships, but when you're with someone for so long, all the time, then you're bound to get feelings for someone. It got a bit hectic."
10. Chloe and Nathan are both keen to do more TV.
Chloe fancies having a go at Big Brother (but Nathan said the last celebrity series put him off!) "I'd love to do I'm a Celebrity though," Nathan said. "I hate bugs. I'll eat anything, I don't care. If I'm hungry, I will eat anything, I'm a gannet. Bugs and stuff like that, they make me squirm. I'm 6'3" and I'd probably be reduced to tears by holding a spider or being locked in somewhere. I think it would make for good TV."
11. Nathan has a secret.
He can't tell his left from his right ("I struggle"). Now, he hold up his hands to see the left thumb make an L shape and figures it out from that.
12. Chloe has her own language.
"She says spontaneous, random things," Nathan explained. "Chloe is another level of Geordie. I think you take Geordie language to the next level, don't you? She's Geordie 2.0, she's her own kind." Chloe agreed: "I don't think you'll ever meet anyone like me. I've never met anyone like me – I wish I could because I'm amazing! I'd love it."
13. Never underestimate the power of Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda'.
Talking about his best night out, Nathan said: "We were in the club, and I'm sure there was a massive fall out because everyone wasn't talking. There was a group divide, we were in House of Smith, and then 'Anaconda' came on and literally everyone went bats**t crazy. We were jumping on each other, people were dry humping each other, we were twerking, there was a point when all the boys jumped on top of each other, then we jumped on all the girls. But we completely forgot that we'd all fallen out, we danced, and then everyone couldn't stop laughing. And then the song went off and we were back to how we were before!"
14. The Geordie Shore house is a disgusting, horrible place to be.
Not only did Nathan complain that he couldn't sleep because of Kyle and Scott's snoring ("It's like a mix between a growl and a roar"), but the Geordie Shore lot are a messy bunch. Chloe's main crime is leaving the milk out, but Nathan insisted she wasn't the only offender: "No-one in the house I don't think knows how to put anything in the bin, apart from me and Scott. I think I moved a bag of vegetables when I was cleaning the kitchen. The shopping had been brought in and nobody had put it in the fridge, and these vegetables had been sat next to the warm side of the fridge for ages. When I moved the bag, green smoke came off them. It was horrible. I'm surprised we didn't catch anything living in there."
15. Nathan described the new series as "carnage".
"But all the best parts of carnage – the messy parts, the arguing and then the fun!"
Chloe and Nathan join Geordie Shore for series 10 which hits screens on Tuesday, April 7 at 10pm only on MTV.
