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.
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The Geordie Shore 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.
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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.'
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
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 (seen in June 2024)
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.'
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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'.
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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.'
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 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 (seen on Celeb Big Brother in 2016)
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.
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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
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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 he was pictured 'snorting a suspicious substance' 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.
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 (seen on show), 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
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.
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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.
In February 2025, he pleaded guilty to two counts of driving under the influence of a controlled drug, which was above the specified limit, and was fined £330 and banned from the roads for 12 months.
The Celebrity Big Brother star was subsequently dropped from Geordie Shore once again.
Speaking as his driving ban is coming to its end, Scott said that he understood why he'd been axed from series 26, 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'.
Reflecting on how he descended into frequent boozing and drug-taking, he blamed it on his frequent public appearances, where he was paid to go partying at clubs, turning to cocaine to keep his energy levels up because caffeine affected his anxiety.
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But he said the money, crowds of adoring fans and ease of the job kept him coming back, recalling how he and a Geordie Shore co-star once made around £200,000 in a single month by doing PAs every night.
While he also cites his ADHD as contributing factor to his drug abuse, Scott insists that it was 'lifestyle' of endless partying that was really to blame.
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)
Reflecting on how he descended into frequent boozing and drug-taking, he blamed it on his frequent public appearances, where he was paid to go partying at clubs, turning to cocaine to keep his energy levels up because caffeine affected his anxiety (seen in club in 2013)
'I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to escape from something, or I was just trying to be loved, and I was trying to get attention', he said. 'Everyone would be like, "he’s just off the rails". But it was more like, I just didn’t know where to put myself.'
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He first opened up about his battle with drugs in 2019, saying that when he first found fame on the show in 2012 he was plied with booze and drugs during nights out.
Scott said that despite getting help at a rehab in Scotland, he spiraled again after the death of his stepfather and three close friends.
'While the show was on air, I'd be doing club personal appearances every night and I started taking cocaine to cope,' he said.
'I used to be completely anti-drugs, anti-smoking and despise all of that. But I fell into that lifestyle.'
While he said that he was also hit hard in the spring of 2019, by the tragic suicides of Love Island star Sophie Gradon and her boyfriend Aaron Armstrong, three weeks later.
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He said: 'I was very close to both of them and that was really hard. I was breaking up with my girlfriend, I was alone in my house and I was like "why is everyone around us dying". I got to such a low depressed point but I managed to pull myself out of it.'