Vicky Pattison on her new best friend Kelly Brook and why she thinks she is unlucky in love
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! champion talks about her new pal and their disastrous love lives
VICKY PATTISON has had three high-profile romantic disasters already this year – but she says the blokes are NOT to blame.
The I’m A Celebrity winner admits she is so mean to lovers she ends up driving them away.
And she reckons the only person who really understands her behaviour is fellow love-shambles Kelly Brook.
Vicky, 28, told The Sun on Sunday: “We joke that we’re both jealous psychopaths but its not that funny and not that much of a joke — it’s absolutely true when it comes to geezers.
“I can be a jealous psycho at times.”
Relationships with Made In Chelsea’s Spencer Matthews, Towie’s Mario Falcone and rugby league’s Omari Caro have all bitten the dust since January.
The ex-Geordie Shore star said: “I’ve had quite a few high-profile fails this year — and it’s only July.
“I’m not very lucky in love and I don’t think I’ve actually ever been in love.
“The problem is I’m dead busy now and I put my career, my family and friends first.
“So any geezer who comes into my life has to be aware that at first he’s going to be third in line and that’s hard for an alpha male, like the ones I go for, to take.
“But I’d love to find someone who I can share all these amazing things with. I miss kissing, I miss holding hands and I miss texting someone before I go to bed.”
A recent smooch with a mystery man while on a sunshine holiday with mates has reignited her dreams of coupledom.
She said: “I did kiss a boy in Ibiza and I’d like to kiss him again. We did swap numbers but we haven’t met up yet.
“I’m hopeful but then I’m always hopeful. Hope springs eternal.”
In the meantime, Vicky has been using her troubled love life as good bonding material with new pal Kelly.
The jungle queen and the model, 36, are team captains on Channel 5’s new game show It’s Not Me, It’s You, which started last month.
And while Kelly has now found love with French model Jeremy Parisi, her previous track record with lovers including England rugby star Danny Cipriani and ex- Gladiator Tornado gives her a lot in common with Vicky.
The former call centre worker said: “Kelly is a lovely, warm and genuine person and she’s so candid that you can’t help but love her.
“She’s just a normal girl who has been looking for love and I’ve fallen in love with her a bit because we have a lot of the same traits.
“That’s why I’m not going to take relationship advice from Kelly.”
The pair’s new show is hosted by Eamonn Holmes and the This Morning presenter has been mercilessly teasing Kelly about her taste in men.
Vicky revealed: “Eamonn is always telling Kelly that the reason none of her relationships work is that she always goes out with muscle-bound lads.
“Her reply is, ‘What else do I need lads for? I make my own money, I support myself, I have my own house and my own life.
“‘If I want to go out with a lad because they’re good looking, that’s what I’ll do.’ And I was like, ‘Fair play to her’.
“She’s so often portrayed as this helpless woman, but actually she’s a real alpha female for the modern generation.
“And she’s landed on her feet with her lovely bloke, Jeremy, although they aren’t engaged. She asked him for diamonds for her birthday so he bought her a diamond ring.
“But when she said, ‘Is this what I think it is?’ He said, ‘No.’
“She is generally very much in the driving seat, though.
“Jeremy came along to lots of the filming sessions and the wrap party, which descended into utter anarchy because she’s so wild.”
Meanwhile Vicky is using her own dodgy past with men to give tips about what not to do in relationships in her new book.
The Real Me also has chapters packed with advice on holidays, work and fashion. But she admits that opening up about her grim tally of unhappy break-ups was the hardest part.
The list of former loves includes Stephen Bear. who she met on Ex On The Beach, Geordie Shore’s Ricci Guarnaccio and Vicky’s first boyfriend Dean.
She said: “None of those relationships were the world’s greatest love affairs but the circumstances surrounding them were the most difficult to get over. Dean was lovely and has probably made someone the best husband ever.
“But I wanted to go to university and travel — Dean wanted to put alloys on his Ford Focus.
“We were in such different head spaces that I had to end it, but it was hard for me to make that decision.
“Breaking up with Ricci was difficult because it was toxic and horrible, and he wasn’t going to end it, so I had to. Then Stephen just made a fool of me.”
Last year Stephen announced their split on social media by hinting Vicky had cheated on him.
That caused her to brand him “the most vile, horrendous, snaky, conniving and manipulative person I have ever met”.
She said of writing the book: “Talking about them was tough because I realised I’ve been through a lot of break-ups, but I’m no closer to knowing what I want in a man.
“But I’m glad I did, because hopefully reading about those break-ups, and the tricks I used to get over them, will help other lasses.”
Vicky has seen her TV career kick off beyond reality shows since taking the jungle crown last year and she credits that show with introducing viewers to her real self.
She has now won stints on Loose Women and This Morning and is determined to use her new position to give other women confidence to be themselves.
Vicky, who landed a deal with Ann Summers after winning I’m A Celebrity, has been repeatedly targeted by vicious trolls criticising her figure.
This week she even burst into tears on TV’s Loose Women while talking about the hateful jibes.
She told us: “I’m sick of seeing women tear others down, and be jealous and catty towards them rather than build them up.
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“I, like many others, get hit all the time and I can’t get my head around it.
"I’m not going to sit here like Mother Teresa and say other women can’t be knobs, because they can. But to drag them down for the way they look or for doing things that make them happy or for being successful is horrible.
“Calling someone ugly won’t make you prettier and saying someone doesn’t deserve success won’t mean that success comes to you. It’ll just make you bitter.
“It’s an inward blade and these people are only going to hurt themselves.
“The one thing I want this book to get across is that it’s OK to be yourself. You don’t have conform or to be anyone you don’t want to be to be happy.”
— The Real Me by Vicky Pattison, published by Sphere, will be out on July 28. RRP £16.99.
