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’ ex James ‘Arg’ Argent begged the star to call off her engagement to Rami Hawash when it was first announced. He held up a cheeky sign at the PDC World Darts Championship at London’s Alexandra Palace.James, who was in an on-off relationship with 41-year-old Gemma for the best part of ten years, was pictured giggling as he clutched a sign saying: “GC call off the engagement!!” back in December.
It came days after the TOWIE star announced her plans to tie the knot with car salesman Rami.She had previously dated him in 2013, and they got engaged for the first time when he hid a ring in her Christmas pudding, but Gemma later admitted her heart was not in it.
She explained to Piers Morgan on Life Stories: "I knew it wasn’t right because when he asked me to marry him I zoned out and sort of stared into space."I should have said no, but I didn’t have the guts.”In 2014, the pair called it quits just weeks before their wedding day was supposed to go ahead.
They briefly reunited in 2017 but split up once again, with Rami blaming Gemma’s fiery ‘GC’ persona. “The GC is a protective armour for her,” the 48-year-old told The Mirror.“I would wake up in the morning and I would look in her eyes.
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