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 unrecognisable from her first TV appearance way before TOWIE
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxGemma Collins came to reality TV prominence on The Only Way is Essex ten years ago.But her first appearance on the small screen came many years before that.Gemma, 40, was left cringing on Thursday night as she appeared on Piers Morgan's Life Stories and the footage of her at 18 was plastered across the screen.
The 'GC' first appeared on TV at the age of 18 in the show Snobs - a show about people who believed they were a different class.
