Gemma Clare Collins (born 31 January 1981) is an English media personality and businesswoman. In 2011, she began appearing on the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex. Following a brief appearance on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2014), Collins has appeared in various television programmes including Celebrity Big Brother (2016), Celebs Go Dating (2018), and Dancing on Ice (2019). In 2019, she began starring in her own reality series and hosting a podcast on BBC Sounds.
Gemma Collins joins The Mirror's crusade to ban UK fur sales as she asks for PM's help
Gemma Collins has become the latest celebrity to speak out in support of the Mirror’s crusade to ban fur sales in the UK. The 40-year-old reality star, who became a household name in The Only Way Is Essex, called on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “do the right thing” and let animals “keep their skins”.
Posing up with a “skinned fox” in an image for charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Gemma said: “Animals in the fur industry are kept in cramped cages before they’re killed in the most horrific ways, all for a coat or some trim on a jacket." She went on: “I am so passionate about ending the fur trade because I think it’s absolutely horrific the way that animals are so barbarically treated. “While fur farms no longer
