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 reveals she’s been forced to hire £500-a-night bodyguard after turning into a recluse
thesun.co.ukGEMMA Collins has revealed she splashes out £500-a-night on a security guard to keep her safe when she leaves the house. The bubbly former Towie star said that she used to struggle to cope with even friendly fans approaching her.
Her growing fame affected her so much that she became a recluse, before seeking advice from her therapist and learning how to better handle the attention.
Gemma said one of the reasons she ended up creating her own Christmas-themed wonderland in her garden last year was so that she wasn't mobbed at the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.
Speaking to Robbie Williams' wife Ayda on the Postcards from the Edge podcast, she said: "I addressed this in counselling because I was getting like a bit of a recluse.
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