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.
Gemma Collins bullied and ‘punched in the face’ for being too popular as teenager at all-girls school
metro.co.ukThe Gemma Collins Podcast.‘I used to be bullied because I was quite popular and I was quite out there. Basically, I had to move schools in the end because I was bullied quite bad.’The reality star added: ‘One girl even punched me in my face and stole my purse.’Gemma – who recently returned from a Mykonos getaway – also opened up about her teenage struggles in her 2013 autobiography, Basically… My Life As A Real Essex Girl.The meme sensation went into further detail about the time she was punched in the face, saying it happened at her local underage nightclub.Recalling the attack, Gemma wrote: ‘I didn’t see the girl approach, I just felt the blow.
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