Marnie Simpson threatens to QUIT Geordie Shore as she slams ‘manipulative’ producers over Charlotte Crosby row
MARNIE Simpson has blasted Geordie Shore producers for whipping up drama between the cast – and is now considering quitting for good.
She has fallen out with former pal Charlotte Crosby but says “manipulative” Geordie Shore is partly to blame.
Marnie. 32, suggested reality TV bosses provoked the cast into having a row on the series – which originally tracked a boozy group of young Geordies as they lived together and went on wild nights out.
But the latest series featured the cast all grown up and reuniting for Marnie’s wedding, and later on a family and friends holiday with their kids.
Unluckily for Marnie, tensions erupted around her wedding when she ran out of time to pick her maid-of-honour, a role her cousin Sophie Kasaei was hoping to fill.
“Me and Sophie spoke about that whole maid-of-honour storyline, we fully knew that was going to be hyped up for a storyline,” Marnie revealed.
“Maybe I should have had Sophie as maid-of-honour but I was filming All Stars Shore at the time so I wasn’t even in the country and I got back 10 days before my wedding. I didn’t have time to organise it, it was one less thing to worry about.
“And then my manager at the time sort of suggested himself. And I just go with the flow.
“But me and Sophie spoke off camera loads, we fully knew it was going to be a storyline, and we just rolled with it. Then obviously all that stuff happened with Charlotte at the wedding, but that was just input from producers, you know.”
The star went on to claim that producers trapped them into having it out on camera while they were very drunk.
She said: “I think what happened at the wedding, me and Nathan were having a chat off camera but we had our mics on.
“So (the producers) overheard this chat through the mics, and because we were so intoxicated they decided to grab us all and be like, can you have this chat on camera?
“All of us were so drunk we were like, ‘yeah why not?’
“Oh my god, come on, we were so drunk. We couldn’t string a sentence together. And they wouldn’t let us leave that room until they got what they wanted from that chat.
“We were just trying to leave this room because it was my wedding day and I wanted to enjoy my wedding, so we were, ‘like let’s get this done’.
“But obviously that was all cut out, and this is what I’m saying about editing. Editing can make things look so different. So that chat was not meant to be on camera.
“I regret it because I think we opened a whole can of worms. But me Nathan and Chloe took the brunt of it. But we aren’t the only ones who talk about that.”
After the wedding, the cast flew off on their Geordie Moon holiday to Cyprus.
Marnie admitted they had unresolved issues still hanging over their heads but Charlotte and Marnie were staying together in one villa with their kids.
The star explained said: “It probably all stemmed back to that.
“(The accommodation) was chaos. We had no cleaning products, we didn’t know where anything was, we couldn’t get hold of production.
“They were with other cast. It was a nightmare, we weren’t getting fed for hours.
“I understand it is hard even for producers but there were kids involved so I felt like it shouldn’t have been that chaotic.
“But all that happened, and it’s created this massive storyline for them.”
According to Marnie, the row that erupted with Charlotte that led to her quitting Geordie Shore was made a whole lot worse by the conditions in their villa.
Marnie revealed in the latest episode of The Saving Grace podcast: “(The row) was basically over coco pops.
“There was a lot of tension, there was so much tension. Rumours going round that people had said this and said that, people had issues with the kids, making noise, making mess, we were all making mess.
“This is what has been cut out. It’s so frustrating. Charlotte and (her fiancé) Jake were cooking meals, leaving the dishes, we were making mess, just leaving it.
“The producers were like, ‘we’re getting cleaners in’, you focus on doing the scenes. Filming. That’s your job.”
The friends failed to resolve their row leading to Charlotte flying home with Jake and her daughter Alba-Jean.
The meltdown has caused a huge rift between the friends, and asked if she’ll do another series, Marnie said: “I don’t know. I’m very torn.
“Because with the show if the producers were just really honest with us and were like, ‘this is how it’s going to be edited and this is how you’re going to come across, and this is what we think is best for the show and we want to know if you’re ok with it, or know your thoughts,’ just that clarity. You prepare, you know what’s coming.
“You’re like, that’s fine I am a reality TV star, I know what I signed up for. I’ll take it.
“But it’s when I’m constantly being told that like, ‘no you’ve got nothing to worry about, everything is going to be amazing, it’s really fair.’
“No, that to me is very manipulative.
“And I’d have to really think about it. And have serious conversations if I was to go back.”
The reality favourite joined the MTV show in 2013.
She went on to appear in Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, eventually coming fourth.
The Sun has contacted Geordie Shore for comment.
