Geordie Shore’s Holly Hagan-Blyth has performed quite the career pivot. An OG of the notorious MTV reality show – her antics regularly landing her on the front of the tabloids – she now has a very respectable new gig. As host of the podcast CBeebies Parenting Helpline, Hagan-Blyth has landed a very different audience to those reality followers who know her possibly a little too well.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God, the BBC wants to talk to me? It felt crazy, because we had always been told the BBC aren’t going to touch anyone from Geordie Shore. But the show has evolved so much. They have less risk because of the type of person I am now,” she said.
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Hagan-Blyth grew up in the media spotlight, having been introduced to the viewing public through some pretty unsavoury, drunken behaviour in a hot tub at the age of 18. Now, 33, she’s a changed woman. Settled with husband Jacob Blyth, a footballer for semi-pro Wythenshawe Town, they have a two-year-old son, Alpha-Jax.
Her early experience of motherhood has very much provided the credentials for hosting a podcast about the trials and tribulations of parenting.
“I had postpartum anxiety and it sounds so morbid but I couldn’t sleep when he was sleeping. I thought he was going to stop breathing, so I would just stare at him all night,” she says. “And considering we were pretty much perfect before children, me and Jacob were bickering every day. But if you can get through that first year, you can get through anything.”
On top of this, Alpha-Jax was a challenging baby. “When it’s your first child, you don’t realise that everything’s a stage – but it was a bloody long stage,” she says. “He would whinge all the time, nothing made him happy. I think he hated being a baby. All he wanted to do was walk, talk, eat, crawl. I wondered if I’d made a mistake in choosing to be a parent. I loved this child to bits, I felt such a strong bond, but to not be able to do anything that made him happy was difficult. Every day, I was like, ‘This has to get better, it can’t go on like this.’”
Hagan-Blyth is now out of the trenches. “Now, he can communicate so I can actually reason with him.”
Hagan-Blyth with some of her fellow Geordie Shore co-stars (Photo: Justin Goff Photos/Getty)When not parenting, she still dabbles in Geordie Shore. “We might have a few drinks, but we’re in bed by midnight. It’s probably not as fun as it used to be, but people want to see that evolution.”
However, she looks back on the first series with sadness.
“There were loads of people in that green room and in the gallery looking on, did nobody think, ‘She shouldn’t be doing this?’” she says. “It was splashed all over the newspapers. I was trying to have this, ‘I don’t care what anyone thinks,’ attitude, and actually I really cared.”
Hagan-Blyth considers that the reality has been lost from reality TV of late. “I’m glad we had that experience, because it was wild and crazy and it was real to the point of people being like ‘Whoa, that shouldn’t even be on TV’.
“I think you lose that reality when everything gets too produced. You see it on Love Island, they’re drinking non-alcoholic WKD, for God’s sake. They could at least give them a couple of drinks.”
Drunken TV moments aside, her other regrets are surgery-based – in particular having had a Brazilian butt lift (BBL). “I massively regret the BBL. It’s the most dangerous surgery you could ever have, and I’m left looking like a deflated water balloon – but, had I not done that, would I have got into the fitness industry and be able to use what I’ve learned to help other people?”
Hagan-Blyth was surprised to be approached by the BBC (Photo: Provided)Hagan-Blyth runs her own fitness platform, Team Fitty. “Four months after giving birth, I was practising my exercise and it made Alpha-Jax giggle, so Jacob recorded it. It was a cute video, so I posted it and it got millions upon millions of views, everyone talking about my postpartum body, people saying I was shaped like a wisdom tooth, because of the BBL. It hit an audience who’d never seen me before…all talking about how awful I looked.”
Still, she has found the silver lining in such brutal criticism. “It got Team Fitty 3,000 new followers. It is right that any press is good press.”
Does she ever think about the prospect of Alpha-Jax reading this stuff and watching her antics on Geordie Shore one day? “He’s not going to be seeking it out, he probably won’t be interested. But, I mean, listen, it’s not ideal. As long as he doesn’t watch the first, maybe, 11 series…”
Series two of CBeebies Parenting Helpline is available to listen to from August 21st
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