'They were set up' - Vicky Pattison admits to staging workout photos for paparazzi

The Geordie Shore star was pictured looking glamourous while she was exercising with a personal trainer.

Speaking to Yahoo Celebrity, she said: “The pictures of me exercising in the park and going for a jog, yeah those are set up. I mean, you know you’re going to get papped.”

The 26-year-old added that despite this, she didn't know her picture was being taken when she was papped in an unflattering bikini on the beach.

Vicky added that being photographed at a size 16 while eating an ice-cream was the inspiration she needed to start eating healthily and exercising.

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“I’m not stupid, I know it happens, I mean, Chanelle Hayes did it and she probably got a little magazine deal to do it or something. But I was going through enough already.

“I’d just been arrested! I couldn’t get any lower. I was f***ing chomping down on a Solero, I was proper going to town on it, not like glamour model sexy licks, it was like piping off a Solero. It was awful."

Vicky also slammed other celebrities who set up pictures just to get a DVD deal.

“It does irritate me when celebs do the set-up pap thing, go on a faddy diet and then release 80s aerobic DVDs. I’ve been very honest about the fact that I had my trainer and I wanted to be proud of my DVD," she finished.