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' fans have been sending messages of support to her after she disappeared from social media while her beloved dad battles coronavirus.
The former TOWIE star, 39, hasn't been seen on her Instagram account for five days after she made her last post thanking NHS staff for their work during the pandemic.
She is usually very active on Instagram and has been keeping her followers updated after she revealed her father Alan has become very ill while fighting Covid-19, while her mum Joan also has the bug.
And her fans wanted to make sure she knows she's in their thoughts when they left supportive comments on the post. One commented: "Hope your parents are OK hun." "Thinking of you and your family today," another posted.
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