Last night’s Geordie Shore return was nothing short of emotional, with Aaron Chalmers arriving late to the house after recovering from his MMA fight, only to drop the major bombshell that Gaz Beadle, who is expecting a little boy with girlfriend Emma McVey, would not be returning to the house AT ALL.

Team that with the arrival of new radgies Stephanie Snowdon and Sam Gowland and all the mortal necking on and we were, quite frankly, all over the place.

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Despite the Geordie squadcelebrating Gaz and his legacy by paying homage to the humble parsnip, Aaron has revealed that he believes the OG lad needs to come back to make his own proper send-off.

Speaking in an exclusive Confession Cam for MTV, Aaron spoke about the moment he had to tell his fellow Geordies about Gaz’s exit, admitting: “Everyone’s chatting away and asking how I am, but at the back of me mind, all I can think of is how I’m gonna tell them that Gaz has left.”

Reacting to the sad news, Sophie Kasaei revealed that she felt “a little bit angry because he wouldn’t say goodbye,” but explained: “I know Gary very well and I knew that he would never come back to say goodbye because he hates it.

“He hates things like that, he hates any kind of confrontation or anything that’s gonna get him emotional.”

She later added that the situation has made her think about her own future, saying: “Everyone who I started this with has gone. Every single person now, and I’m the only person left so it does make me think, ‘do I stay here or do I go? Do I just move on’, and it does make us think, ‘what’s on the other side that I’m missing out on?’.”

Chloe Ferry was equally upset by the new development, while Nathan Henry admitted that there was a part of him that thought Gaz might make a surprise re-appearance during the farewell parsnip party.

He told MTV: “When we were at the parsnip party last night, there was a part of me just looking around, waiting for Gary to walk through the door, ‘cause I think it would be nice for Sam to have experienced Gary in the house and now he’s not, it’s very weird and Sam’s not gonna have him there at all for his Geordie Shore experience.”

With the parsnips (almost) completely tidied away though, Aaron admitted that Gaz “owed it to himself” to return for a PROPER mint AF farewell: “I’m not gonna lie, last night, I think the parsnip party was a sh*t send-off for Gaz. He’s been in this house for six years.

"I think he deserves a f**king proper send-off and owes it to himself to come back in this house and do it properly.”

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