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 has jumped at the chance to support Tilly Ramsay after an old tweet from LBC host Steve Allen was dug up and reported on.
Headlines this week have covered Steve’s comments calling Tilly “chubby” but reports have shifted to a number of 2014 tweets he wrote labelling Gemma “fat", "boring” and a “beach hut” Seeing that she had been brought into the discussion, Gemma was quick to have her say and throw her support behind Tilly for the way people talk about women’s bodies.
Following up her original post to Instagram in Tilly's defence, she followed with a second snap where she wrote: “I’ve had a few people this past week, month, ten years in spotlight be rude to me about me…..