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.
I’m the most successful woman to come out of Towie and I’m not done yet, says Gemma Collins
IT'S hard to imagine a time in TV land before Gemma Collins. The GC - as she is affectionately known - first appeared on our screens back in 2011 when she joined The Only Way is Essex.
Gemma, 41, immediately brought the glam and even more importantly, the drama, and this lead to her being at the top of the calling cards when other reality shows needed to pull together their line-ups.
Over the years, Gemma has appeared on Dancing On Ice, I’m A Celeb, Celebrity Big Brother and had her own spin-off shows, and during a chat with The Sun, the star admitted it had made some of her ITVBe co-stars jealous.
She said: "People underestimated me. There is such a huge snobbery around reality stars and I’ve always been the underdog on Towie.
