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.
James Argent has revealed he is a cocaine addict who has nearly died twice after overdosing on the party drug. The TOWIE star, 32, told in an interview how he has been addicted to the drug for seven years - causing his friends and family to fear he might die.
He revealed in an interview with The Sun that his girlfriend Gemma Collins, 39, called emergency services twice last year who had to kick down his door to save his life.
Speaking of his first overdose in October, he said: “I locked myself in my house and took drugs for three days straight on my own in the pitch black. “I was at rock bottom.
My heart was beating out of my chest, my nose was bleeding, I was shaking and my breathing was terrible. "My family were banging on the door
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