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 shared on having to discuss the prospect of her father losing his life to coronavirus. The reality TV personalities father, Alan, is currently in hospital following a positive coronavirus test and is making a recovery but at one point TOWIE's Gemma and her family had to discuss her dad not making it.
The 39-year-old opened up on how her father suffering from the deadly bug has put a toll on her family and said it has been a "scary time." Speaking on the latest episode of the Gemma Collins Podcast, the ITVbe star told: "It literally tears you apart." "Our house is not the same without my dad and it has been such a scary time because we just haven’t known how he was going to be.
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