Charlotte Crosby came into the public eye after appearing as an original cast member of Geordie Shore from 2011 to 2016. Featuring in a show largely centered on the Newcastle partying scene invites all sorts of assumptions from the general public, but Chatterbox Media set out to challenge these preconceptions and show Crosby in a new light in Charlotte in Sunderland.

David Metcalf was finishing another series with Chatterbox when he heard about the new show and was quick to board as director, both eager to work with the production company again and to work with Crosby. “Charlotte is somebody that almost everyone in the U.K. has heard of and has won a legion of fans around the world,” he says. “I knew that if we could approach the series in a different way to how people might expect to see her, we could make something fresh and exciting.”