Gemma Clare Collins (born 31 January 1981) is an English television personality and businesswoman. In 2011, she began appearing on the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex, and following further appearances on television, she became a contestant on the seventeenth series of Celebrity Big Brother and the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice.
In August 2019, she began starring in her own reality series, Gemma Collins: Diva Forever.
Jason Gardiner has spoken out about his time as a judge on Dancing On Ice and said - by the end - the show was "toxic". The 49-year-old choreographer left the popular ITV show in 2019 after having a very public feud with contestant Gemma Collins, which he described as '"traumatic".
Jason and the 40-year-old Towie star had rather tense slanging matches whenever the judges gave their feedback to the celebrity contestants.
Jason consulted his lawyers after Gemma accused him live on air of "selling stories" about her — a claim he vehemently denied.
Gemma also accused Jason of being a bully because he compared her to a refrigerator. She wrote on Instagram : "I’m really tired of being BULLIED by this man...
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