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.
I was on TOWIE and I quit because I didn’t know who the real me was
thesun.co.ukA TOWIE star has candidly told how she quit the iconic reality TV series as she felt "I didn't know who the real me was." Kate Ferdinand, 31, shot to fame on Towie when she was known as Kate Wright.
She used to work as a business support manager for a bank before reality TV fame beckoned, launching her to fame in 2015. Kate joined the ITVBe series with friend Mike Hassini, with her first appearance on screen was during the Marbella special when she strode out in a bikini.
Having grown up in Essex, she was already good friends with cast members Chloe Lewis and Gemma Collins. In one explosive scene, she famously called her former co-star Megan McKenna a "dog." read more towiethe ONLY WAY IS exit Towie axe two stars from show in shock cast shake-updinner dash Amy Childs in worrying pregnancy update as she feared she'd pass out Meanwhile, Kate was in a relationship with fellow TOWIE stalwart Dan Edgar for six years - and her bust-ups with her then on-off boyfriend were shown to the whole nation.
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