Aaron Chalmers (television personality)

On 4 April 2014, it was announced that Chalmers had joined the cast of Geordie Shore for the eighth series. He left the series after season 16.[3]

He appeared in the sixth series of Ex on the Beach as the ex of Maisie Gillespie. The series began airing on 17 January 2017.[4] In 2019, Chalmers began starring in the MTV series Geordie OGs, a spinoff series of Geordie Shore. Before becoming well-known, he worked on an oil rig.

In May 2017, he had his first MMA fight,[5][6] beating Greg Jenkins.[7] He has previously practised Muay Thai. He won his second professional fight at BAMMA 31 at the SSE Arena beating Alex Thompson by KO on 15 September 2017. His third and final fight for BAMMA was a win (by TKO) against Karl Donaldson on 15 December in his home town arena the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle.

In March 2018, Chalmers announced he would be joining Bellator. He had his first fight against Ash Griffiths on 25 May 2018 for the Bellator 200 event at Wembley Arena.[8] He won the fight via technical submission in the first round.[9] In his second outing for the promotion, Chalmers suffered his first defeat as a professional fighter, as he was defeated by American Corey Browning by submission in the third round.[10] In June 2019, Chalmers returned to the win column with a submission victory over Fred Freeman. [11]

Chalmers next faced Austin Clem in a welterweight bout at Bellator Dublin on February 22, 2020.[12] He lost the bout via unanimous decision ( 30-27 x2, 30-26 ).