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.
ITV show even managed to win a Bafta in 2011. It has now had 25 series and more than 300 episodes, while a string of copycat reality shows have tried to tap in to its enduring appeal.
Over the years there have been plenty of memorable moments.One of the highlights was when Amy Childs gave her pal Sam Faiers a vajazzle – a cosmetic treatment where jewels are used to decorate a woman’s private parts.Towie eventually became so big it was used to launch digital channel ITVBe in 2014.
It remains its flagship show six years on.It has also launched the careers of some of telly’s biggest reality stars – making them multi-millionaires in the process.Mark Wright, Gemma Collins and Joey Essex have all gone on to carve out long-term careers in.
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