Vicky Pattison tried to make light of her airport fiasco after she was stopped from flying due to a damaged passport last week.
The TV personality, 36, was gifted a box of Italian goodies from her Heart FM colleagues during her radio show and jokingly posed with the country’s flags.
Vicky was turned away from her easyJet flight to Italy on Sunday due to her dog chewing and slightly damaging her passport.
The former Geordie Shore star was due to fly out and visit her wedding venue as well as meet the wedding planner and taste test their menu.
However, Vicky and her fiancé Ercan Ramadan went sent home after easyJet staff told the reality star that her passport broke company policy.
Vicky Pattison, 36, tried to make light of her airport fiasco after she was stopped from flying due to a damaged passport last week
Despite being extremely upset and disappointed she couldn’t fly, Vicky put on a beaming smile as she returned to work.
She captioned her post: ‘Honestly have the BEST little family in the world… I couldn’t get to Italy, so they bought Italy to me.
‘Thank you so much @chazzychum @adamlawrance and @producerzoe for the cutest little surprise ever… @thisisheart.’
On Tuesday, Vicky told how she had spent the day at the passport office to apply for a new document so that she wouldn’t miss her hen do later this month.
Speaking on her radio show, Vicky told listeners: ‘Everyone I’m sure by now knows, I tried to go to Italy at the weekend to see my wedding venue and try the menu. We were really excited, we got to the airport really early Sunday morning and we got turned away.
‘The airline, who will remain nameless because I think I’ve caused enough grief, said [my passport] was too damaged for their company policy. I have been travelling with it all year but company policy is company policy.
‘I took it on the chin and walked away, and did a couple of stories saying I was really disappointed. I’d wasted money on the flight and my wedding planner and florist were already out there, I was feeling disappointed and tired.
‘I then just got on with my life and went home to my dogs, tried to look on the bright side. And then the press just went mental, like nobody had ever been turned away from a flight because of a passport rip before. It was reported that I’m like banned from easyJet, they made it sound like I’m on some sort of list.
Vicky was turned away from her easyJet flight to Italy on Sunday due to her dog chewing and slightly damaging her passport
The TV personality posted a snap of the top of her passport which had been chewed by her pet pooch, while branding easyJet a ‘destroyer of dreams’
Vicky’s dog Milo was the culprit behind the damaged passport
Adam questioned: ‘You didn’t have a blazing row at the gate…
‘No I just walked off! I was like are you, can I take my chances? We’re not gonna risk it. Then I went home to my dogs! You’d like I was some sort of criminal…’
Adam said: ‘I’m sorry you didn’t get to go to Italy. But the story has a happy ending as you’ve spent all day in the passport office…
Vicky revealed: ‘Yeah I went straight there, I am going to Dubai and I’ve got my hen this month, I’m taking no chances. I think this is the universes way of telling me to sort out my passport. So I was proactive, and I did it. And the good news is my new one will be here in a week.’
On Monday, easyJet issued a statement about the incident.
A spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘We are sorry for Ms Pattison’s experience and the inconvenience caused. At easyJet, we work closely with the authorities and comply with their guidance to ensure the safety and security of all passengers and staff.
‘As such, we cannot allow any passenger to travel on their planned flight with documentation damaged to such a degree that its authenticity is brought into question’.
They added: ‘It is the passenger’s responsibility to have suitable documentation for travel.’
The former Geordie Shore star was due to fly out and visit her wedding venue as well as meet the wedding planner and taste test their menu
Vicky took to Instagram to rage about airline following them turning her away from a flight on Sunday
A spokesperson for easyJet told MailOnline: ‘We are sorry for Ms Pattison’s experience and the inconvenience caused. At easyJet, we work closely with the authorities and comply with their guidance to ensure the safety and security of all passengers and staff (pictured with fiancé Ercan)
Vicky had taken to her social media earlier in the day to say she was on her way home to ‘cry’ after the ordeal.
Raging, she wrote: ‘Thought we were off to see our wedding venue today, we were so excited..
‘I rushed back from Newcastle, packed at midnight last night and jumped into bed and got 3 hours sleep… But I didn’t mind because we were going for our menu tasting @ercan_ram.
‘Only to have the @easyiet staff turn me away.. I’ve been travelling with my passport all year and no one’s said anything, but it’s definitely well travelled to be fair Company policy is company policy and I get it, I’m just beyond gutted you know??
‘My wedding planner, her assistant, my florist, everyone are all heading out… … X And I’m just heading home… to have a really good cry I think.
‘All the wasted money, how hard it was for me to get the time off, how excited we were, how I’ve wasted everyone’s time.. I’m just really sad I think.’
Vicky had taken to her social media to say she was on her way home to ‘cry’ after the ordeal
Sharing a photo of her passport, she added: ‘This is what was wrong with my passport for everyone asking, in fairness, I don’t know if that is really bad or not, I’ve just not had anyone ever tell me it was before.. cheeky little milo butt.
‘Think rather than waste my glam, I’m going to take some new passport pictures, then cry…’
Vicky concluded her string of posts with a screenshot from an online form which asked how her passport had been damaged.
Writing in the answer box, ‘My dog chewed the side abit,’ she added in her caption to fans, ‘@easyjet you destroyer of dreams you.’
