Newcastle nightmare
I will admit to having watched a couple of episodes of TOWIE (that’s “The Only Way is Essex” if you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years) and kind of enjoyed the trashy blondes with their gallons of spray-on tan, tantrums and (fake) tiaras. OK, they clearly only had a couple of brain cells between them, and made the stars of US shows like ’The Hills'look like a graduating class from Oxford, but it was perfect hangover TV; the kind of show which you don’t need to engage your brain in order to understand or enjoy.
But has MTV gone too far with its latest reality TV venture, a UK version of the popular ’Jersey Shore'set in Newcastle? Jersey Shore has become the programme that Americans love to hate, with fashion labels requesting that the stars stop wearing their clothes and with many bars in Atlantic City banning the cameras because they’re always followed by trouble. ’Geordie Shore'will have to go some to match that kind of reputation, but in a city that’s well known for its brassy blondes and moronic Gazza-esque guys, the producers have somehow managed to scrape the bucket for the show’s current cast…
In fact, the Geordie Shore boys and girls are so obnoxious, so arrogant and so damn nasty to each other and anyone and everyone who crosses their path that it actually isn’t entertaining. Whereas the TOWIE bitching is funny, because of the ludicrous name-calling and frequent language errors, GS is rather like watching the clever kid being bullied in the playground by the girls who aren’t actually pretty and cool, but who think they are. I’d rather work on my quote for tin bespoke solutions than watch it; and when I say that about a reality TV show, you know it must be bad!
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