Geordie Shore’s Abbie Holborn breaks silence on Chantelle Connelly feud and reveals real reason they ‘won’t be friends’

GEORDIE Shore star Abbie Holborn has broken her silence on her shock show feud with Chantelle Connelly.

The reality TV stars came to blows in an explosive argument on the MTV reality show after Chantelle furiously slammed Abbie in front of their fellow co-stars in an out-of-nowhere outburst.

During an outing on the show’s most recent series, filmed in Thailand, a drunken Chantelle began slating Abbie in an unprovoked attack that initially had her co-stars thinking she was joking.

However, as the star continued to get personal, the cast members were left shocked as it quickly turned into a full-scale argument with Chantelle saying that Abbie hid behind an “innocent, naive” girl persona.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun about the show row, Abbie revealed: “Do you know what was funny, before that scene, and when we were all in the girls’ room we were all absolutely fine.

“Then what that happened – honestly, every single person in that taxi thought that she was joking because no one could believe it.

“It was like, ‘is she joking?’

“When we all realised that she wasn’t actually joking, it was almost like, ‘eh?’

“I think it did come out of nowhere, and it is weird, because obviously we all sleep in the girls’ room, and we were close.

“I’d never once said anything bad to Chantelle, I’d never done anything to her.

“I felt like we were friends.”

Abbie continued: “So I was quite surprised, and then I think just from then onwards, this narrative of me that I’m this pretending and innocent girl, and that I’m jealous of others carried on.

“I just find it so bizarre.”

After the row, Abbie implied that Chantelle had claimed she would not apologise for the comments and for causing the row.

In response, Abbie told us: “I think without an apology, I’m not sure there is a friendship.”

The current run of the programme is the most drama-filled than ever before with Abbie admitting there was a clear cast divide.

Abbie counts Sophie Kasaei, Holly Hagan and Nathan Henry amongst her closest pals as well as enjoying friendships with Kyle Christie, James Tindale and Chloe Ferry outside of filming.

However, she admitted the cast divide added extra tension during filming with some of it only worsening since the cast have been forced to watch the show back – nine months on from it being filmed.

Abbie said: “I think we all felt when we were filming the series that there was a divide, and it never was like that.

“I think we’re all quite surprised of how this all of a sudden came around, because obviously people have come back from previous series, and us in there are so close.

“Obviously there’s me, Sophie, Nathan, we’re all very, very close, and we see each other a lot on the outside, and Chloe as well. We’ve always just got on and had a genuine friendship.

“I knew that there was a divide, and I knew there was problems, but I think when I’m watching it back and I’m seeing what people have been saying about me, I am quite surprised.

“I am the type of person where I won’t say anything to you unless you say something to me.

“I’ve not been nasty to anyone, I’ve not said anything directly that’s really nasty, do you know what I mean?

“So I think watching it, I am quite shocked to see what people have been saying about me.”