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 has compared herself to Marilyn Monroe ahead of the launch of her new TV programme. Diva On Lockdown, a rebrand of the Only Way Is Essex star’s Diva Forever, will capture her life at home using fixed-rig cameras set up around her house.
Comparing herself to the Hollywood actress, she said: “Like Marilyn Monroe was sent out to entertain the troops in the war times, I realised that the country may need the GC for entertainment and that’s what I want to give with this series. “I’m a reality queen and I want people to see the realness. “But I’m not gonna lie, putting the fixed cameras in my home was like being back on Big Brother again, but without a bunch of annoying people around me.” She added: “In TV, you normally have loads
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