Who is TikTok star GK Barry? Inside internet sensation Grace Keeling's rise to fame

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Grace Keeling, otherwise known as internet personality GK Barry, has taken social media by storm and shows no signs of slowing down.

The 23-year-old has amassed over three million followers on TikTok with 242 million likes on the app as well. Grace came up with the pseudonym GK Barry by merging her initials with her best friend's last name in a bid to avoid people she knew finding her on social media.Before finding fame online, Grace completed a degree in film studies from Nottingham Trent University, as well as a masters in digital marketing.

While at Nottingham Trent, she worked on the set of BBC series Doctors, and the Netflix film Hood, as well as creating content for ShawMind, a charity working to promote mental health awareness.Now Grace is best known for her hilarious videos on TikTok, being the face of the new KFC advert and as a successful podcast host.

Grace has taken the podcasting world by storm with her show Saving Grace, where she has interviewed the likes of Katie Price, Mark Wright, Georgia Harrison and a stream of Love Island stars.In an interview with Heat, Grace revealed: “During lockdown, I was honestly bored out of my brains so I started making the most pointless videos where I would do storytimes about what had happened with ex-boyfriends or whatever.