Scotty T: Fatherhood Changed Me, Eyes Geordie Shore Return

Scotty T has broken his silence on becoming a father, crediting the arrival of his son six months ago with helping him to change his life around following his driving ban and cocaine scandal.

The star, 37 - real name Scott Timlin - was revealed in October to have welcomed a baby boy with a university student from Newcastle two months earlier. 

Confirming the news, he declared that his son was 'the most important thing in my life' and said fatherhood will ensure he would stay on the straight and narrow from now on.

Speaking a year after he was handed a year-long driving ban for two counts of driving under the influence of a controlled drug, Scott declared he has not touched drugs since he was caught behind the wheel in October 2024.

In a new interview with The Sun, the reality star insisted he did not have a drug problem and that 'a lot's changed since' his conviction - which he called 'unlucky' - most notably the arrival of his son. 

He told the publication: 'Becoming a dad is definitely a blessing. He’s just changed everything. He’s put a smile on my face. That’s the most important thing in my life.'

Scott declared that being a dad was now his main focus, saying: 'I’ll just live every day as it comes. I’ve already won, because I’ve had the baby, I’ve already got my legacy. And he’s going to be mint.'

Sharing the details of his son for the first time, he admitted he 'cried my eyes out' during the birth, describing the milestone moment as 'the maddest, most exciting, worrying time of my life'.

While he denied reports that he met the mother of his child on a night out while he was 'sofa surfing last year', saying that she is someone he has known for nine years.

He clarified that they had never been together - calling their relationship 'casual' - but insisted that despite the womanizing reputation he built for himself on Geordie Shore, he was 'gentleman'.

Scott tearfully revealed that the pair had actually been expecting their first child together the year before their son was born, but had sadly lost the baby, leaving them 'devastated and gutted'.

He explained that they slept together again and fell pregnant a second time, describing it as 'the best thing I've ever done'.

However, as a result of jaundice and low oxygen levels, he revealed how their newborn son had to have a number of hospital visits at the beginning, which he was still struggling to move past.

He said: 'My heart sinks every time. I just want to do anything I can to make sure that nothing else goes wrong.'

While Scott confessed that his desire to keep the news private was out of fear that other women would come forward to claim he had fathered their child.

Having slept with well over 1000 people, it is a worthy concern for the star, who said that he's had previous occasions of people contacting his management to claim they were pregnant with his baby.

He said he was also concerned that his son's mother would be accused of 'baby-trapping' him on purpose, which he said was far from the case, insisting that the pair were 'fully invested in being the best parents ever.'

While Scott joked that he hoped the little boy would follow in his footsteps and be a 'right t*** when he’s older' so that he could experience what he put his own parents through. 

And despite admitting he still loves partying and drank a whole bottle of Jack Daniels at a public appearance just this week, he insisted he no longer goes near drugs. 

He soared to fame on 2012's fourth series of Geordie Shore, on which he has appeared on-off for five years, before he was said to be suspended in May 2017 due to his hard-partying ways

He booked himself into a rehab centre in Scotland for two weeks and made a fleeting return to the show, but was axed in January the following year after and exposing himself to a female.

Following the incident, he spent three months at a treatment facility in Thailand, and was back for series 18, 19, and a brief stint in the 2022 reunion season.

While Scott returned to the Paramount+ series in 2024 after a two-year absence, in October that year he was caught on cocaine behind the wheel of his Land Rover.

Prosecutors said that he had 32 microgrammes of cocaine per litre of blood in his system, when the legal limit is 10 microgrammes, and 800 microgrammes of BZE per litre of blood - well above the legal limit of 50 micrograms.

Scott said that he understood why he'd been axed, but said he hoped to be invited back to the show soon, insisting that the driving incident was 'just a silly thing and I paid the price' (seen with co-stars Marty McKenna, Nathan Henry, Gary Beadle, Aaron Chalmers in 2016)