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 slams critics of Chicago role as she insists she 'trained hard and auditioned'
ok.co.ukShe’s the loud, proud and larger-than-life Essex girl who isn’t afraid to speak her mind, and former The Only Way is Essex star Gemma Collins did just that on Tuesday as she slammed her critics who said she only got a part in the UK tour of Chicago: The Musical because of who she is - ‘the GC’.
Gemma, 41, is due to make her debut as Mama Morton in Chicago: The Musical, which kicks off in Sunderland on May 31 and will head to Cardiff, Blackpool, Sheffield and Norwich, before ending in Oxford on July 23.
Whilst onstage for the launch night of her one-woman show, The GC’s Big Night Out in Manchester on Tuesday, the TV personality took a moment to give her opinion on her critics who have trolled her for her signing on the iconic West End show.
Gemma shared her feelings on the subject with her audience of adoring fans, saying: “I’ve had a lot of stick from theatre goers and performers going, ‘Oh she just got it because she’s the GC.’ “I didn’t just get it because of the GC.
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