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 is fierce, fabulous and 40! The TOWIE diva is celebrating her milestone birthday today - no doubt in as epic a fashion as lockdown will allow.
And earlier this week she got the best birthday present possible when her dad Alan, 72, returned home from hospital after getting Covid.
Dishing on her plans earlier this week, The GC revealed she'd had to cancel her huge 48-hour party - complete with 'garage singers and every cuisine from around the world'.
Instead, she's ordered her favourite desserts for herself and her dad to enjoy. "The fact that I can sit with my dad eating cake on my birthday is absolutely priceless," she said on her BBC podcast. "I've ordered three large French fancies.