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 was 'punched in face by school bullies' for being 'too popular'
mirror.co.ukGemma Collins has spoken out about how she was bullied and trolled even before she was under the spotlight of fame. The 39-year-old former TOWIE star was bullied so heavily at her all-girls school, she ended up moving to another so that she could get away from the mistreatment by her peers.
The reality star said that she was punched in the face by one rival, because she was deemed to be 'too popular' by jealous pupils.
Speaking on the new episode of The Gemma Collins Podcast, she told listeners: "I never got bullied because of my weight, I actually wasn’t overweight at school. “I used to be bullied because I was quite popular and I was quite out there." Gemma said they had to take some extreme action to get her out of the situation.
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