Geordie shore star Vicky faced a disappointing verdict from the Strictly Come Dancing judges this week, but she says she has her own personal definitions of success and failure
Strictly Come Dancing star Vicky Pattison says she’s always believed that it’s up to her to decide exactly what success and failure mean to her.
The 38-year-old says that in her native Newcastle “it was ‘expected that you’d get married and have kids by 30, and if you didn’t you’d have failed.” But Vicky says that while hitting 30 felt “hideous,” she’s now in the happiest and most successful period of he life so far.
She told the Daily Mail: “I’d just come out of a relationship. I’d been conditioned to think everything was going to go downhill – looks, fertility, career. But my 30s have actually been the best years of my life.
“I met my husband, I bought a house, I adopted my dog, I found a career I’m proud of. I was a girl until I was 30 – now I’m a woman, and I like her. Society scares women into thinking life ends at 30. It’s rubbish.”
Vicky has shrugged off other people’s idea of “failure” professionally, as well as in her personal life. After earning an impressive 39 points from the Strictly Come Dancing judges for her sultry tango to Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia in Week Seven, Vicky had a tougher time this weekend.
For this week’s jive to Girls Aloud hit Sound Of The Underground, Vicky and professional dance partner Kai Widdrington ended up receiving a score of 27 out of a possible 40 points from the judges.
That left them left them tied at the bottom of the leaderboard alongside EastEnders actress Balvinder Sopal and her partner Julian Caillon.
Vicky was nowhere near being placed in the dreaded “Final Four” last week, but added that she knew it was inevitable that she’ll have to face the “awful” ordeal at some point.
She revealed on her Get A Grip podcast: “I know at some point, you know, I’ll have to be in a dance off or whatever it is. I think it’ll be it’ll be terrifying.
Vicky had actually spoken to Strictly bosses about the new “Final Four” format, but was told in no uncertain terms that it wouldn’t be changing.
In the wake of her Strictly run, and the success of The Honesty Box – which achieved the rare feat among TV dating shows of finding two couples that actually wanted to stay together past the end of the season, Vicky is looking forward to a flood of new TV offers.
But she’ll undoubtedly miss her Strictly co-stars, who she described as a “family.” She said that while she found the elimination shows uncomfortably “spicy,” the rest of her time on the show has been a joy: Before getting to your spicy Saturday, there’s just a real family feel on a Friday and it’s lovely.”
Source: Mirror
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