Gemma Clare Collins (born 31 January 1981) is an English media personality and businesswoman. In 2011, she began appearing on the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex. Following a brief appearance on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2014), Collins has appeared in various television programmes including Celebrity Big Brother (2016), Celebs Go Dating (2018), and Dancing on Ice (2019). In 2019, she began starring in her own reality series and hosting a podcast on BBC Sounds.
Gemma Collins delighted as she gives update on dad Alan’s Covid battle
metro.co.ukwas hospitalised with Covid-19 has finally been given the all clear to return home. Gemma filled fans in on the latest episode of her BBC Sounds podcast and recalled how doctors called her father the ‘miracle man’, after fighting for his life in his battle with the virus.
She said: ‘It has been a terrible start to the New Year because my dad has been fighting for his life in hospital from Covid, however, my dad comes home this week, so it’s the best birthday I could wish for.’Not fazed that she faces seeing out her birthday in lockdown, Gemma continued: ‘Yes, I can’t have the party that was planned.
I had arranged so many singers to come to a venue I booked last year and it’s not going to happen, but you know what it doesn’t matter – my dad.
