Meet The Cast Of The Geordie Shore: The UK Jersey Shore

'I'm pert, I'm a flirt and I've got double F boobs': Meet Geordie lass Holly the youngest star of UK's answer to Jersey Shore

By Sarah Fitzmaurice

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

The hit U.S. reality TV show Jersey Shore has proved so popular that it is now in its fourth series and the binge-drinking, vulgar-mouthed, highly-sexed characters on the show are seemingly as popular as ever.

So it was only a matter of time before the concept was picked up over here and following success of The Only Way Is Essex and the imminent arrival of the Chelsea set to our screens, MTV have looked to the North for their latest reality TV offering.

Pert and a flirt: Holly is the youngest cast member of the latest reality TV show from MTV Geordie Shore

So who are the Geordie Shore cast members who have opted to live together in a bid to bed more randoms and drink their Stateside counterparts under the table?

Meet the youngest member of the crew fake tan addict Holly who introduces herself on camera by grabbing her ample chest and saying: ‘I’m pert, I’m flirt and I’ve got double F boobs.’

Not only does the 18-year-old have a pneumatic chest but her party tricks include downing a shot from her cleavage and according to MTV’s site she: ‘often rounds off the night by getting into a scrap.’

Wrinkle fear: Jay is scared of the ageing process and is rarely seen without his top off

Muscle lover: Charlotte- Letitia, who won't kiss anyone without a six pack and admits: 'Girls call me a slut, ex-boyfriends call me a psycho and my mum calls me an idiot'

And flex: Gary claims to be 'mint' in bed but will he impress the ladies on screen?

THE GEORDIE DICTIONARY

Spice boys – pretty boys

Tash on – snogging

Swilling – throwing a drink over someone

Soound as a poound – good/approved

Purely belter – really good

It’ll be proper mint! – it will be great

ahfancyhor or ahfancyhim – I fancy her / him

Alreet marra? - you alright mate?

Ah wes palatick – I enjoyed myself

And in keeping with the buff bodies seen on Jersey Shore the U.K’s answer to muscled men comes in the form of 25-year-old Jay who says his biggest fear is getting wrinkles, his mantra for life is ‘whoever’ and ‘wherever’.

Next we have 20-year-old Charlotte- Letitia, who won’t kiss anyone without a six pack and admits: ‘Girls call me a slut, ex-boyfriends call me a psycho and my mum calls me an idiot.’

Work-shy James, 20, admits that the hardest graft he has ever done is his hair, and his quest in life is to go out and pull as many girls as possible.

Joining them for the girls is 21-year old ‘tomboy’ Sophie and Vicky,23, who according to the website likes shopping and the gym, which are the only two of her activities which don’t involve alcohol.

And to bump up the testosterone in the house cheeky chap Gary, 23, who claims to be ‘mint’ in bed joins 26-year-old Greg who dresses to impress.

Party people: Work shy James and Vicky love nothing better than a night out on the Toon

Angels of the north: Ladies man Gary and tomboy Sophie are up for anything for a laugh

Plush pad: The eight-strong Geordie gang will live together in a house which boasts modern furniture and plenty of shag-pile rugs

And judging from some pictures inside their new pad don't look to shabby with sneak pics revealing ultra-modern furniture, shag pile rugs and plenty of shiny surfaces to allow the boys to check their refection at all times.

The antics from these ‘angels’ of the North will be shown on MTV from 24 May.

European Neanderthals had ginger hair and freckles

Neanderthals living in Europe were fair skinned, freckled and had ginger hair, a study has revealed.

By Edward Owen in Madrid

The gene known as MC1R suggests the Neanderthals had fair skin and even freckles like redheads.

In a major breakthrough, Spanish scientists have discovered the blood group and two other genes of the early humans who lived 43,000 ago.

After analysing the fossil bones found in a cave in north-west Spain, the experts concluded they had human blood group "O" and were genetically more likely to be fair skinned, perhaps even with freckles, have red or ginger hair and could talk.

The investigating team from Spain's government scientific institute, CSIC, used the very latest forensic techniques to remove the bones for analysis to prevent them getting contaminated with modern DNA.

Carles Lalueza, an evolutionary biologist with the investigation, said: "What we were trying to do was to create the most realistic image of the Neanderthals with details that are not visible in the fossils, but which form part of their identity."

The report, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, concludes that: "These results suggest the genetic change responsible for the O blood group in humans predates the human and Neanderthal divergence" but came "after humans separated from their common ancestor ... chimpanzees."

The Spanish scientists also describe how they also discovered two other genes.

One gene known as MC1R suggests the Neanderthals had fair skin and even freckles like redheads.

Another, a variety of FOXP2, is related to speaking and the capacity to create a language and therefore suggests they could communicate orally.

Neanderthals are believed to have numbered about 15,000 and lived in Europe and Asia for about 200,000 years until they became extinct about 30,000 years ago.

Since 2000, archeo-paleontologists, wearing special sealed white suits, masks and helmets have been painstakingly sifting through 1,500 bone fragments found in the "Tunnel of Bones" in the Sidrón cave complex in Borines, Asturias, north-west Spain.

Unnatural striations in the bones suggest that the Neanderthals practised cannibalism and broke the bones to pick out succulent bone marrow.

But why this group died, without wild animals discovering and contaminating their remains, or why indeed the Neanderthals in general became extinct, still remains a mystery.

"Really we can't establish a direct relation with why the Neanderthals disappeared," says Antonio Rosas.

One theory is that they succumbed to an ice age or another, more sinister, is that they were wiped out by the arrival of our more direct human ancestors from Africa.

Rick Astley Wins Best Act Ever!

The fans show they’re ‘Never Gonna Give (Him) Up’…

The ultimate power of the audience vote was underlined when Rick Astley scooped Best Act Ever.

Rick was not available to attend the Awards.

In his absence the Award was picked up by Katy Perry and Perez Hilton who charmed the audience with a quick dance routine to his famous track Never Going To Give You Up.

In a statement Astley said: "I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.

This is the first time I have been nominated for the EMAs and I would like to thank everyone who voted for me."