Charlotte Crosby

Charlotte-Letitia Crosby is an English reality television personality, model and fitness expert from Sunderland. She rose to fame in 2011 after appearing in the MTV reality series Geordie Shore. She also won the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2013. On June 1st 2016, Crosby announced via Twitter that she would be leaving Geordie Shore after 5 years.

Career

Charlotte is best known for being a cast member of MTV's reality show Geordie Shore, which she has starred in since 2011. It is the most popular show of all time on MTV UK. She has currently featured in all twelve series of the show. She is known best for her on/off relationship with fellow cast member Gaz Beadle. She quit the show following Big Birthday Battle mini series in May 2016 due to a fall out with one of her fellow cast members. Charlotte stated she had thoroughly enjoyed being on Geordie Shore and that she would miss being a cast member. Tributes flooded in for her on twitter including heart felt messages from her co stars Holly Hagan and Marnie Simpson.

In November 2012, alongside her Geordie Shore cast members, Crosby guest appeared in the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards where they presented the award for Best Male, which Justin Bieber won. In February 2013, Crosby appeared on The Sarah Millican Television Programme alongside her Geordie Shore cast members Gary Beadle, James Tindale and Holly Hagan.

On 23 August 2013, Crosby entered the Celebrity Big Brother house to compete in the twelfth series. On 13 September, she was crowned the winner of the series beating Abz Love who finished as runner-up.

In 2013, Charlotte hosted the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards. Crosby is a regular panellist on This Morning, panel for the fashion strand 'Rate or Slate' and also has regularly appeared on the panel for ITV Shows, Britain's Got More Talent, Xtra Factor and Celebrity Juice. In January 2014, it was confirmed that Crosby would have her own reality series on TLC where she will spend time in different extreme cultures and to live with some of the world's unique communities. "I am bursting with excitement about my new show with TLC. I literally want to run around shouting about it from the rooftops!" The series is called The Charlotte Crosby Experience.

Charlotte occasionally hosts MTV News and also has a regular column in Star Magazine. On 19 September 2015, Crosby and her home appeared on comedy panel game show Through the Keyhole also launched her own clothing brand, Nostalgia. Charlotte has also appeared on programmes such as "Staying In", Fake Reaction, "Most Shocking Celebrity Moments", 50 Funniest Moments, Utterly Outrageous Moments.

In early January 2015, MTV UK announced that Crosby was set to star in the second series of hit reality show Ex on the Beach. The series premiered later that month on 27 January. Charlotte joined the cast in the villa in the series fifth episode, appearing as an ex of fellow Geordie Shore cast member Gary Beadle.

Crosby's autobiography, ME ME ME, was published in July 2015 and spent 5 weeks at the top spot. On 4 August 2015, Crosby appeared on BBC Radio 1's Innuendo Bingo.

Fitness DVDs

On 26 December 2014, Crosby released her first fitness DVD entitled "Charlotte's 3 Minute Belly Blitz" to an overwhelming success. The workout DVD featured Richard Callendar of ITV's The Biggest Loser fame and weight loss expert David Souter. It quickly becomes the UK's fastest selling fitness DVD as it shifted 101,000 copies in its first four weeks on sale and overtook 2008s "Dirty Dancing's Official Dance Workout", which sold 77,000 copies in the same time period. 3 Minute Belly Blitz topped the official sports and fitness chart upon release and also knocked off Disney's Frozen off the top of the Official DVD charts. Within a month it became the sixth best-selling Fitness DVD of the decade. At the end of 2015 it was the 31st biggest selling DVD of the year. Since its release it has continuously appeared near the top ends of the Sports & Fitness DVD charts.

The following year on 26 December 2015, Crosby released her second Fitness DVD entitled, "Charlotte's 3 Minute Bum Blitz". The object of the DVD is to get a "more peachy bum". It uses the same trainers as 3 Minute Belly Blitz.

Personal life

In March 2012, Crosby was given an 18-month driving ban after she was found guilty of Driving under the influence.

Whilst filming Geordie Shore, Crosby was romantically linked to co-star Gaz Beadle. From 2012 to mid 2014, Crosby was in a serious relationship with Mitchell Jenkins. They rekindled their romance in January 2015 but split once again in August of the same year. During late 2015, Crosby dated Love Island winner Max Morley.

From December 2015 to April 2016, Crosby and Gaz Beadle started a relationship outside of filming their show. This came to an end following Crosby's ectopic pregnancy. Crosby was rushed to St John and Elizabeth hospital in London where she had life-saving surgery which involved the removal of her left Fallopian tube. At this same time, Beadle had been unfaithful to her in Thailand whilst filming the TV show, Ex on the Beach, leading to the end in their relationship.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Note
2011–2016	Geordie Shore	Herself	Cast member
2013	Celebrity Big Brother		Housemate (series 12)
2014	The Charlotte Crosby Experience		Presenter
2015	Ex on the Beach		Gary Beadle's ex (series 2)
2016	Up Late with Rylan		Resident Barmaid

Guest appearances

• The Sarah Millican Television Programme – (5 February 2013)
• Big Brother's Bit on the Side – (22 August–13 September 2013; 3 January, 17 June, 11 September 2014; 23 January 2015, 8 January 2016)
• The Wright Stuff – (17 September 2013, 8 January 2015)
• Celebrity Juice – (19 September 2013; 8 May, 23 October 2014; 31 March 2016)
• This Morning – (24 September, 5 November 2013; 7 January 2014; 4 January, 19 April 2016)
• Celebrity Wedding Planner – (18 October 2013)
• The Xtra Factor – (10 November, 15 December 2013, December 2015)
• Fake Reaction – (9 January 2014)
• Viral Tap – (4 May 2014)
• Britain's Got More Talent – (29 May 2014, May 2015, 22 May 2016)
• Safeword – (30 July 2015)
• Through the Keyhole – (19 September 2015)
• Release the Hounds – (28 October 2015)
• Loose Women – (10 May 2016)

External links

• Charlotte Crosby at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website

Preceded by Rylan Clark

Celebrity Big Brother UK winner Series 12 (2013)

Succeeded by Jim Davidson