Charlotte Crosby Puts Her Kids on TV: 'I lost sleep over it'

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Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby has welcomed the cameras into her home, as her new show follows her young family. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This time around, with my two kids, it was like, it was an eye-opener even for me.

00:06That is next level hard, and I love hard. I love hard.

00:11If you want to do something that bad, you will find a way to do it.

00:16Let's get into it, because I've got a chip on my shoulder about this.

00:18Geordie stories, Charlotte, mum of two. I'm a dad of two.

00:22What possessed you to want to go through that on camera

00:26during that level of the exhaustion, the arguments, everything?

00:30So where's this idea come from? Why?

00:31It is hard. It is hard. It just was like a follow-on from the first show.

00:35I don't think I realised, going into it, exactly what it was going to be like.

00:41And there was lots of moments throughout filming where I was kind of like,

00:47I have never had this happen, filming any show.

00:51I'm an open book. I am so laid back.

00:55There is never a point at which I feel like I'm having to think about things,

00:59or really step in and saying, no, I don't think we should do that,

01:04I don't want to do that, or really overthink everything.

01:09I've never done that, because quite frankly, I don't really care.

01:13But when it comes to me, I am an open book.

01:16I'll show whatever, and that's just how I've been

01:19since the day I came out of the womb, I think.

01:22But this time around, with my two kids, it was like, it was an eye-opener even for me.

01:30There was times at which I kind of found myself lying in bed thinking,

01:35oh, I'm really worried.

01:37The kids didn't film all the time.

01:38They're not in the show consistently.

01:41Say, for example, when we've all been on holiday together,

01:43you'll see a lot of the holiday, and they're there then.

01:45But there's lots of the show where it's just me at work,

01:48or me and Jake, or me and my mum, and it's not always the kids.

01:51But even in them short bits that the kids were involved in,

01:55I found myself lying in bed at night thinking,

01:58oh, I really would like to watch that back just to check.

02:01Do you know what I mean?

02:01And I've never felt that, whatever.

02:03I mean, you've been in the public eye now for like 14, 15 years.

02:0715.

02:07So that's a hell of a lot of time on camera,

02:10and you've seen the good and the bad on both sides of it,

02:12and what it's like to be in the public eye.

02:14So kind of when your kids are involved in that,

02:18you will know all the good and all the bad

02:20and all the things to be scared of.

02:22And I kind of, I can imagine you'd lose some sleep over,

02:25kind of projecting that onto them and what that would mean.

02:28Yeah, oh, yeah, you lose a lot of sleep.

02:29They're never doing anything bad, right?

02:32They're fully clothed.

02:34You know there's a lot of things going around at the minute.

02:36They're always fully clothed,

02:38or they're in their swimsuits on holiday.

02:39They're running around like what two-year-olds do,

02:43and in actual fact, they're being really funny,

02:45because I've watched the first two episodes,

02:47and they're just being typical bloody two-year-olds.

02:51Like, there's one scene where Alba's found a bolt of pseudocrem,

02:55and she's, it's everywhere,

02:57and me and me mama running after her,

02:59and we're like, and it's funny.

03:00And I think, looking back,

03:02if, as an adult, I would be like,

03:03that is so funny, I can't believe I was like that.

03:06I think when it starts to get a little bit like,

03:09oh, I'm not really, I feel a bit embarrassed about that,

03:13is when they start to become like five, six, seven.

03:16Yeah.

03:16Do you see what I mean?

03:17And the form and the kind of the sense of identity

03:20and personality and stuff.

03:21Yeah, yeah.

03:21I had the exact same pseudocrem incident,

03:24like, literally a week ago.

03:25It's a typical thing, isn't it?

03:26Yeah, yeah.

03:26And I think everyone can relate to it,

03:27and everyone thinks it's really funny.

03:29And I know if she was to look back at that,

03:31she would laugh.

03:32She would actually,

03:33she would probably love to watch

03:35all of the things she got to do when she was a baby.

03:37Yeah.

03:38Because on these shows,

03:39we're travelling to Australia.

03:41Like, and when I tell it,

03:41there's so much telling someone the stories

03:43and showing pictures,

03:44but to actually be able to see footage

03:46of, like, all of us out in Australia

03:48for the first time,

03:49with our tiny baby sister,

03:51like, how funny she was with her nana

03:52when I was at work.

03:54Like, she loved that,

03:55and I would have loved to see that.

03:56I would have loved it.

03:57My nana sadly passed away now,

03:58and I was so close to her.

03:59To think if I had footage of me and her

04:02when I was a tiny baby,

04:03to cherish and look back on,

04:05oh my God,

04:05that would be worth its weight in gold.

04:08You can't even put a price on that.

04:09But I do think that there's an age

04:11where you have to stop.

04:15And I don't ever want to put the girls

04:16in a position where

04:17they haven't had that choice.

04:19So I do think 100% there will be a time

04:23in which I won't possibly do reality shows

04:28about my life with the kids involved

04:30until they get to an age where they're like,

04:32do you know what, Mum?

04:33I think I would love to do that.

04:34Do you know what I mean?

04:35I was going to say,

04:36like, if you've had so much experience

04:38and success in this area,

04:40what would your kind of guidance

04:41and advice be to them

04:43when they kind of approach adulthood

04:45and if they were interested

04:47in kind of carving a career out

04:49in this kind of world?

04:50Well, I'll always tell my kids

04:51from a very young age

04:53that literally anything is possible.

04:58Like, there is absolutely no, like,

05:02limits in this life

05:04to what you can do,

05:06what you can be,

05:07and what you can achieve.

05:08If you want to do something that bad,

05:11you will find a way to do it.

05:13There's just so much out there now.

05:16Like, there's so many jobs.

05:17And I am, I don't look down on any of these.

05:20I went in the jungle once in Australia

05:22and they were all slagging off influences.

05:24And I was like, I've got a brand.

05:26I've got a fashion brand.

05:28Without influences

05:29and without proper style influences

05:31and fashion influences,

05:32like, I wouldn't thrive as much as I do

05:35because that's like,

05:37these people have jobs in,

05:39they're like your average person stylist.

05:41So, you know,

05:43not everyone can afford

05:44to have a stylist to be dressed.

05:46But, you know,

05:47like my friends

05:48who all have normal jobs,

05:50they look at people like that

05:51to get fashion ideas.

05:53Do you know what I mean?

05:53Like, all of,

05:54all of these people,

05:56they are,

05:57they do benefit everyone

05:58in some kind of way.

06:00Do you still have the same kind of hunger

06:01and excitement

06:01for like making television

06:02and making these programs

06:03as you used to?

06:04And what's,

06:05what's kind of the next step?

06:07What's the next like,

06:08itch to scratch?

06:10I absolutely love TV.

06:11It's my favourite thing

06:12in the whole entire world.

06:14Like I,

06:14from a young age,

06:16I've always,

06:17when we first ever,

06:18got our first ever camera phone,

06:20we always made funny videos

06:21and like love to like,

06:23make up all these stuff.

06:24So I love it.

06:25I absolutely love TV.

06:27I love thinking of formats of TV too,

06:30which I've got so many in my head.

06:32Like it'll always be

06:33a massive passion of mine.

06:34Maybe not the reality side,

06:35but I do have other things

06:36on the bucket list.

06:37Like it would be great to do,

06:39I'm a Celebrity,

06:40the English version.

06:41It would be great to do Strictly.

06:43I mean,

06:44I always wanted to do

06:44Dancing on Ice,

06:45but that's finished now.

06:46Like there's so many things

06:48that I would love to do.

06:49Like love to do

06:50little TV show wise.

06:52But for me,

06:53at the minute,

06:54I have,

06:55obviously I had kids.

06:56So it went a little bit quiet for us

06:58because when you're pregnant

06:59and you first have a baby,

07:00you're not going to get us

07:00to do a lot of things.

07:02You've done the energy

07:03to do a lot of things.

07:04Exactly.

07:05But in that meantime,

07:07I've been slowly building

07:08my business,

07:09which is Pepper Girls Club.

07:10And that is really,

07:13really snowballing

07:14and it's really important

07:15for me now

07:16to build a brand.

07:18I've done it all by myself.

07:20I've not had any investment.

07:21I don't have any business partners.

07:23It is literally me,

07:24my mum

07:25and a very small team.

07:26Me and my mum

07:27picking parcels,

07:28but we are building it

07:29to be something really great

07:31and that's really

07:32a soul drive of mine.

07:34Like it's so,

07:35it's so easy

07:35to have a podcast.

07:36It's so easy

07:37to get us to do a TV show

07:38and just do it.

07:39But try building a business.

07:41Wow.

07:42That is next level hard

07:45and like,

07:45and I love hard.

07:46I love hard.

07:47I want to prove to people

07:48that I can,

07:49that I can do it.

07:51And like on this journey,

07:53I've had the door slammed

07:53in my face a lot of times

07:54by investors,

07:56by accountants

07:57who've been like,

07:57this is never going to succeed.

07:59And it's just given us

08:00so much drive

08:01to be like,

08:02you just watch me build

08:03one of the biggest

08:04home fashion brands

08:06that like

08:06has even

08:07came to England

08:09and I'll do it

08:10and I will do it.

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