Vicky Pattison says she and Ercan Ramadan are still sleeping in separate beds because the London heatwave has made their upstairs bedroom unbearable. The 38 year old said she is in the living room with the couple’s dogs, while Ramadan has gone back upstairs.
“Yes, we’re still in separate beds,” Pattison said. “Except Ercan’s back in our bed upstairs and I’m in the living room with the dogs!” She added: “We got air-con fitted downstairs, but upstairs is still like a total sauna. Ercan’s Turkish though, he can cope with it. I, on the other hand, cannot.”
Living room, upstairs, and two pooches
The immediate setup is bluntly practical: air-con downstairs, heat upstairs, and Milo and Max keeping Pattison company on the cooler floor of the home. That leaves Ramadan in the bedroom while she stays below with the dogs, a routine that looks temporary but has already become the household workaround.
Pattison also tied the sleeping arrangement to a broader shift in how she wants to live. “When you’re young, you want to travel, take all the big jobs, go on all the exciting adventures, but I feel like my life’s getting a little smaller every year. I’m content with that – to have a smaller friendship circle, to just bother with the girls I’ve known for 20 years.”
Five-year plan for North East
“I want a place back home, babies, I want to start slowing it all down – that’s kind of our five-year plan,” Pattison said, linking the heatwave story to a bigger decision about where the pair want to settle. She said she wants to be close to her own family if they are able to grow their family, and added that she is a Newcastle girl at heart.
That shift sits awkwardly beside the work she says still pulls her south. Pattison said much of her work is based down south, even as she talks about missing her family “like rotten” and wanting to go home. Her current setup in London and her longer-term plan do not point in the same direction, which is why the next move matters more than the bedroom arrangement itself.
Escape To The Country plans
Pattison and Ramadan are also preparing to film Escape To The Country, which gives the move talk a concrete next step rather than a vague wish. For now, the heatwave has turned one upstairs bedroom into the part of the house neither of them seems eager to use, and the living room has become the place where Pattison and the two dogs have taken over.
The real test is whether that five-year plan turns into an actual move back north, and whether the London base keeps making sense once filming is done. Until then, the split beds are less a quirk than a live snapshot of a couple balancing work, weather and where home is supposed to be.
