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.
'Vulnerable Gemma Collins tears over trolls as painful as her miscarriage heartbreak'
mirror.co.ukWhen she fell through the stage at Wembley Arena, she picked herself up and dusted herself off in front of a crowd of thousands, because, for Gemma Collins, the show must always go on.
So it’s easy to assume the reality star is tough enough to tolerate any criticism - but even the armour of her caricature “The GC” cannot withstand the barrage of death threats she’s subjected to.
Nor should it have to. When she breaks down on tonight's night’s Life Stories, telling Piers Morgan how she developed a thick skin to “survive” the tough entertainment industry and detailing a history of self harm, it’s the same vulnerable side of Gemma I saw when she wept to me over her fears she would never have children following a miscarriage.
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