Not exactly sun and surf: The stars of Geordie Shore strip off for a hot tub session under the grey Newcastle skies

With the stars of The Only Way Is Essex heading off to Marbella, BAFTA in hand, for a post-season break and their would-be replacement Made In Chelsea failing to set screens alight, reality show fans have a gaping hole in their midweek light-entertainment schedule.
The stars of MTV's new programme Geordie Shore are hoping to take over.
Jay, Greg, James, Gary, Charlotte, Holly, Vicky and Sophie ignored the grey clouds in Newcastle yesterday to strip down to their swimwear and pose for photos in a hot tub to promote the show, which premieres tonight.


But while The Only Way Is Essex maintains that the cast are going about their regular lives (although some scenes are set up purely for your entertainment), the Geordie gang have moved into a luxury house, complete with shared bedrooms and a hot tub to house the inevitable risky business.
Like their American counterparts in Jersey Shore, the reality star hopefuls will take on jobs together at a promotions company by day, that's if they are not too hungover from their antics on the Diamond Strip the night before.

So will philandering Giggs' patient wife Stacey forgive him yet again?

The confession, made nearly two weeks ago at their enormous mock-Tudor mansion outside Manchester, must have been painful to make and worse still to hear.
But proudly standing by Ryan Giggs at the Manchester United Player of the Year awards last Thursday, his wife Stacey Cooke appeared serenely untroubled.
Her hair was just so, and her lipstick a perfectly executed slash of vampish red.

You would hardly have known that a bombshell had just been detonated under her pretty nose – that her husband was being accused of having a six-month fling with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas.