Gemma Collins
- English
- Celebrity and television personality
Press clippings
Lenny Henry to host Red Nose Day for final time on Friday 15th March
Rosie Jones, Dame Joan Collins and Simon Cowell are amongst the celebrities who appear in a video sketch to announce Red Nose Day 2024 will take place on Friday 15th March. Sir Lenny Henry has announced that this will be his final time hosting the fundraising show.
British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2024The grime MC returns for another series of his hit talkshow, co-hosted with comic Mo Gilligan. Their guests this week include Towie star-turned-national institution Gemma Collins, writer and star of Man Like Mobeen, Guz Khan, and ex-footballer now Hollywood hardman Vinnie Jones.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 7th February 2020Katherine Ryan and Jimmy Carr open a new series of the savage gameshow with an appearance from ex-Towie twosome Gemma Collins and James "Arg" Argent. No couple are more ripe for the challenge. "I'm one hell of a woman," states Collins. The more honest it gets, the more they raise for their chosen charity.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 3rd October 2018Generation Game on a Sunday night? That's sacrilege!
In terms of what we should expect from prime time Easter television, this fell well short of the mark. And it focuses the mind on what we should be saying to those responsible for entertainment at the BBC: stop trying to revisit the past. Go away and think up some original ideas.
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 1st April 2018James Acaster: Leicester Comedy Festival review
When a comedian starts a show on his knees, you know you're in for off-the-wall frivolity.
Gemma Collins, Leicester Mercury, 14th February 2015Review: An interview with Sarah Millican
She speaks with honesty and humility, but doesn't lack self-belief.
Gemma Collins, Leicester Mercury, 9th February 2015Review: (Johnny) Vegas, baby!
Ooh-yor-fightor, writes Gemma Collins, we've only gone and got Johnny Vegas on the phone. It's been a ridiculously long 18 years since we last spoke to the potty-mouthed, outrageous and aggressive comic. (Not for the want of trying, we hasten to add).
Gemma Collins, Leicester Mercury, 9th February 2015Review: Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival preview show
As audiences go, I'm not too sure host Alan Davies was impressed with us - to start with.
Gemma Collins, Leicester Mercury, 10th January 2015Comedy Festival Review: Chris Ramsey
Could he be the most dangerous man on Saturday morning TV? Of course not - the show's title is totally ironic and its content, so finely tuned and feverously delivered, I'd be a plum to give it away.
Gemma Collins, Leicester Mercury, 22nd February 2014The UK Pun Championships review
Who do we have here? His face looks like Lee Nelson, his voice sounds like the crude cockney, but his tracksuit and cap have been swapped for an undeniably smart suit. It's out of character.
Gemma Collins, Leicester Mercury, 14th February 2014