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 famously told her ex-boyfriend James Argent, “Take a good look at this, you ain’t ever gonna get this candy,” as her sarong fell to the floor.
Ever since that iconic episode of TOWIE, the reality TV star hasn’t held back when it comes to flaunting her curvaceous body.
So when the 42-year-old’s image was used in a diet pill scam, Gemma – aka the GC – rushed to Instagram to defend herself and assured followers she had no part to play in it.The GC told her fans that she had been made aware of a Facebook post that used her image in order to target individuals hoping to lose a few pounds.The hoax alluded to Gemma taking diet pills that helped her shed weight.
Alongside two glamorous snaps of herself posing in swimwear, she wrote, “Hey everyone just checking in as it’s been brought to my .attention and I am getting so many messages regarding someone on Facebook is advertising slimming pills with my pictures attached!” Adding a sense of urgency to her message, she wrote, “PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!” Despite putting on a brave front with a stark warning to her 2.2m Instagram followers to not fall for the trap, a source has claimed that beneath the surface, Gemma is ”really upset” about the fake ad. “Gemma is happy with how she looks, so these claims have been upsetting,” they told new. “She has always been open about the fact she’s never gone under the knife or taken diet pills to lose weight.
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