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.
Heartbroken Gemma Collins lays beside extremely ill dad and holds his hand as he battles coronavirus
thesun.co.ukGEMMA Collins has shared a picture of her laying beside and holding the hand of her extremely ill dad as he battles coronavirus.
The heartbroken star wants her followers to take the deadly virus seriously and admitted she's heartbroken and scared. She wrote: "Covid is so scary lying next to my dad holding his hand right now. "I am sharing this to create awareness of how real Covid is." Yesterday Gemma revealed both her parents tested positive for coronavirus — and her dad told her he would "rather be dead".
The Towie star took to Instagram to share the devastating news that Alan and Joan Collins are "extremely unwell" and said her father broke down in tears after the deadly bug took hold.
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