Sophie Kasaei has credited the Kardashians for helping her embrace her Persian heritage. Sophie, 32, shot to fame on our screens in 2011 when she joined the cast of hit MTV show, Geordie Shore.
Initially Sophie was believed to be Italian after making her TV debut and, while she didn’t rush to correct people at the time, she’s since learned to love her Persian heritage and speaks about it more openly now.
Discussing her time on Geordie Shore, Sophie told us: “If you remember when I first started Geordie, everyone thought I was Italian.
People can remember like – this was the first days of Geordie – that my dad has an Italian restaurant, and everyone thought I was Italian.” She went on: “For all those years on Geordie, I didn’t really tell anyone the real honest truth because I just thought I’d let people think that for a bit.
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