Geordie Shore season two kicks off on Tuesday, January 31, and I had a sit-down with the show’s female stars – Vicky Pattison, Sophie Kasaei and Holly Hagan – a couple of months ago to talk it all over.

Apparently this time around we can expect to see a little more quiet time to sit  alongside the trademark dollops of, as Vicky puts it, “fucking and fighting”.

She is the most talkative of the group, and explains: “Last time it was explosive, it was fast-paced, it was outrageous, it was crazy and everything. It’s still kept all of those qualities, but it’s also got a funnier side, a more heart-warming side.

“There’s been a little less focus on going out and getting drunk – fucking and fighting – and a little more on the more subdued side of Newcastle. The fact that we go out in the day, and we are nice as a family. We are funny and witty!”

Sophie adds: “There’s more characters that come out. Individuals and groups as well.”

On the difference in filming, they say a lot more people recognise them now. Vicky says that, in addition to the rowdy stars, there’ll be “a massive light, this huge great contraption, hundreds of security and a sound man with a huge boom.” So it’s not exactly discreet? “Nope! It’s predominantly positive though. You do get a couple of dickheads who are like ‘Fuck Geordie Shore!’”

But, Holly argues, “they’re jealous cos they wanna be on the show.”

That said, the reaction from the face-to-face is generally positive. But as for Twitter? They ain’t fans, and the nasty comments they get from viewers clearly have an effect on them.

Vicky explains: “In the street, they’re like ‘Oh, I loved it when you did this, is Charlotte here as well, where’s Sophie, where’s Holly…’ It’s all so nice and so sweet. But then all it takes is one callous and heartless person to say something on Twitter. Sometimes it’s quite personal and hurtful and it’s like ‘ah, bore off!’, but it is hurtful. Sometimes I think we’re better off without it. I hate it! But it’s good for nice fans.”

On their plans for the second series début next week, Holly says: “The first one we normally watch as a group, we all get together and watch it. And then you cringe and we normally have to watch it twice!

“And it’s hard. You go out on a night out and you get drunk you think ‘Oh God, I can’t remember anything… thank God I don’t remember anything cos I don’t wanna know what it was like’. But we have to watch ourselves in that situation, doing things that… We’re lucky in a way because we get to see how we act, and if we want to change it, we could. But that’s just us and we’re not gonna change. But it’s so hard to watch it back – when people are saying things to you behind your back and you have arguments.”

To read my full interview with the girls, including when Charlotte Letitia Crosby joined amid a “loo-loo” panic, head over to Entertainmentwise here.