CHARLOTTE Crosby has revealed she wants to quit reality television for good – 14 years after first starring in Geordie Shore.
Since those days of debauchery in her early 20s, Charlotte, 34, has gone on to become a household name, launching her own fashion brand and having two young daughters Alba, two, and Pixi, one month.
They recently welcomed their second child, baby girl Pixi[/caption]
Along the way, she’s starred in a host of TV shows including Celebrity Big Brother, Just Tattoo Of Us and Charlotte’s New Baby, which is released today on Paramount+.
Now she’s ready to step away from the box and make her fortune as a businesswoman with Pepper Girls Club.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, she said: “There’s no reality shows trying to sign us up.
“I just don’t think I can be bothered unless it was something that was a really good pay and I could still see my children really frequently. I just don’t have any interest.
“I think my heart is at just really doing the absolute best with my business and being in a position to never have to do TV again. Put that as the headline. I’m quitting TV.
“I’m really not bothered about it now. I don’t care. I just want to live my life. I just want to make successful businesses and live my life.”
Another reason behind the dramatic career shift is protecting Alba and Pixi’s privacy.
She continued: “Listen, I love to do it, but I’ve got a family now. There’ll be a point where I don’t want to have my children on reality TV when they get to an age where they can be recognised and where they’ve got their full adult looks.
“I just want them to have the choice to live a life where people don’t really recognise them. So, that is my aim. I don’t worry in any way about the reaction to it.”
Her latest series documents the weeks leading up to Pixi’s birth.
The fly-on-the-wall series gives fans access to Charlotte’s family home and her relationship with fiancé Jake Ankers.
There are laughs, tears and tantrums in what is a pure, unfiltered look into the life of one of reality TV’s biggest names.
Workaholic Charlotte can be seen taking a hands-on role with her business’s latest collection. She shares her concerns that failure to succeed could lead to bankruptcy, such is the amount of money she had invested in it.
Charlotte ‘came close to losing fortune’ as fashion business survived by ‘skin of its teeth’
By Dan Cain
CHARLOTTE Crosby has revealed her fashion brand survived by the “skin of its teeth” last year as she was forced to make two staff members redundant.
The reality TV star, 34, has invested heavily in Pepper Girls Club and the launch of its new range features in Charlotte’s new Paramount+ TV series, Charlotte’s New Baby.
In the show, heavily pregnant Charlotte can be seen worrying about stock delivery and whether or not she’ll sell enough items.
At one point she admits failure to shift the new stock could even bankrupt her.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, she said: “It was as risky as I made out. It was so bad, we did lose members of staff because we couldn’t actually pay them. So we actually don’t have those staff members back.
“So we are still recovering from that situation. We managed to make it through because the delivery came three weeks earlier than what they said it was going to come. If it had come three weeks later, then I think we’d be in a completely different situation.
“But we made it through by the skin of our teeth, and we had to let go of two of our staff members, sadly.
“I’ve put a lot of money into this business, obviously my own money. And if it was to have just collapsed, I would never have ever seen that money back. So that would have been a bit of a shame.
“I’m hoping that one day I’ll see this money I’ve put into it back. That would be the dream.”
Then there’s a luxury holiday in Maldives for her big gender reveal party.
Chaos ensues when close pals Adam Frisby and partner Jamie Corbett, who are the ones in possession of unborn Pixi’s gender, are delayed and then diverted en route, throwing uncertainty on the whole event.
Later in the series, the aftermath of a terrifying burglary that left Charlotte in floods of tears will be shown.
“I think it’s important to show what’s actually happening,” said Charlotte. “It’s very transparent.”
Charlotte’s New Baby premieres today (March 4th) and every Tuesday on Paramount +
The couple are also parents to daughter Alba[/caption]
