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'THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE IT'
Gemma Collins talks selling her SEX TAPE for £1,000,000, being body confident and settling down with Arg
SHE’S the walking, talking, pouting personification of a viral sensation, whose stage collapse took The GC, as she is known, international.
And now Essex reality TV superstar Gemma Collins wants to rival her US equivalent Kim Kardashian at her own game — by releasing a sex tape.
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“I have actually made a sex tape and it’s very good, if I do say so myself,” Gemma reveals in an extraordinary exclusive interview.
“I just made it because I was in love with my partner and I really fancied him, and always wanted to look at it again. It is on an iPhone somewhere in my house.
“I do feel my sex tape would knock Kim K off her pedestal. But I’d need a million for it.”
Relishing the prospect, Gemma – with that cheeky entrepreneurial glint in her eye – adds: “I would sell my sex tape for a million, yeah.
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“I know people would enjoy it. And I’d enjoy the money, because I could go on holiday for a year.
“I’d like to set something up where they like pay per clip to watch it.
“I’m happy to cut you in, Dan. Let’s do it, let’s release the tape. It’s a business deal.
“The world needs to see the Gemma Collins sex tape.”
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And that is how deals are done, headlines are made and the internet is “broken” in the fast-paced business of the modern — slightly worrying — celebrity typified by Gemma.
While the 37-year-old’s claim might sound outlandish, in a world where social media fame can be commercialised for big bucks, Gemma is Queen Diva.
So much so that she’s releasing a book titled The GC: How To Be A Diva to teach her fans how to follow in her diva footsteps.
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Speaking on the new episode of my podcast, The Dan Wootton Interview, which you can subscribe to now on iTunes or Apple Podcasts, Gemma declares: “I don’t feel peer pressure.
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“At the end of the day, there’s always going to be younger, prettier girls but I know what I bring to the table.
“There is only one GC, so whoever does end up with me in the end is a very lucky person.”
She argues that a diva should be “celebrated” as someone that knows what she wants.
On a superficial level for Gemma that means no one being allowed to contact her before 11am and never using public transport because: “it’s not fabulous enough”.
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But diving deeper, it means she refuses to conform to the slim look that so many celebrities crave.
Gemma says of her weight: “Why change the person that everyone loves?
“You’re never going to see me drinking some protein shake and doing 20 squat thrusts. I will never follow suit.”
In fact, Gemma has turned down mega financial offers to make her own fitness DVD, because of contractual demands that she shed half her weight. She discloses: “I’ve never been 10st in my life. I was probably 10st when I was born, do you know what I mean?
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“If I was 10st, I would look highly unattractive – it would be damaging to my body. I looked at the contract and said, ‘Forget it’.”
The GC is refreshingly honest about certain aspects of living in the spotlight, including the fact she gets paid to set up pictures with the paparazzi — something many A-listers do but few choose to admit.
She says: “I don’t mind doing pictures if I get paid for them, because that means my family have a better life, my nephews get treated and, when they’re 18, I’ve got a trust fund set up for them so they can get a car.”
It was the lack of payment that caused her to lose her cool when she was pictured topless on holiday in Spain last month.
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Gemma says: “It’s not that I’m ashamed of my body, it’s just I’m gutted that I didn’t get any money for them. My boobs have dropped and they’re natural, so it’s hard because you’re seeing people with fake boobs. After seeing those pictures, I might get a little uplift now.”
The Romford-born former car dealer first burst on to the scene in 2011 as a guest star on The Only Way Is Essex.
She recalls: “I was a bit bored in my job, spinning around on that chair, selling BMWs. I went on the show and literally within seven days they told me to leave my job. My life changed. I became a reality TV star.”
And while The GC had certainly developed a fanbase, it was her calamitous fall through a trap door on the stage at the Radio 1 Teen Awards last year that changed everything.
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Reflecting on the incident with her trademark brutal honesty, she cringes then says: “I’m at Wembley Arena. In my head, I thought I was Madonna. With that I spun round in excitement and fell down the hole. On the Love Island cast. Nearly killed them. But, while I’m down the hole, I wet myself in shock.
“I then get whizzed of the stage after nearly breaking my back and have to go and do another presenting link while I’ve wet myself, but no one realised.
“I was drenched to the hills. I hope no one smelt it.
“I was in total shock, even now talking about it gives me anxiety.
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TERRORS OF FAME
GEMMA has revealed there is a dark side to her massive fame – stalkers and death threats.
On the latest scare, she says: “Just recently I’ve got someone sending death threats to my shop every day, it’s a Birmingham postcode stamp so I think they live in Birmingham.”
It comes after Gemma was hounded by a female stalker last year, which resulted in her beefing up her security and pulling out of some personal appearances.
She explains: “That’s why I had to stop all my PAs late last year. I’ve got security, I have close protection.
“Personal appearances – I had to stop them because the stalker kept turning up at them.
“So it’s really hard when they go, ‘Gemma Collins has cancelled the nightclub appearance last minute.’
“It’s because we found out the stalker was there.”
“But it has made me. I think it doesn’t matter what I do throughout my career now, everyone will remember me for that.”
However, Gemma slams the decision by Strictly Come Dancing bosses to ban reality stars like her from the BBC1 show – which she is desperate to appear on – as “snobbery”.
She fumes: “Listen, it’s up to them, their ratings would go through the roof but they’re not ready for The GC yet. They’re hurting themselves.”
In her new book, Gemma also opens up about her love of older men and bad boys, which has seen Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood, who is 52, top her list.
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Gemma says: “I do fancy Paul Hollywood. What a cream horn that would be, it would be amazing.”
When I tell Gemma he is now dating a 22-year-old barmaid, she sighs then says: “You see, I’m too old for him. Paul, if you’re listening, put down the 22-year-old, call The GC. Let’s go to The Ivy in LA for dinner.
“I fantasise about him. I do need a taste of his cream horn. Mary Berry might need to be there to see if the cream horn is up to scratch. What an idea, what a thought.” So where on Earth does that leave
James “Arg” Argent, her long-time on/off – some would suggest long-suffering – boyfriend.
She answers: “We are together but I hadn’t seen him for two weeks. Then I did see him yesterday and we had a really nice time and he bought me some lovely flowers and a Terry’s Chocolate Orange, because he knows it’s my favourite. And then off he goes again for work.
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“I don’t believe Arg will ever cheat on me. I can honestly look you in the eye, hands on heart, there is no way. What a fool he’d be to cheat on me, he would be a fool.
“If he does, I’ll f*** him off straight away, mate. I wouldn’t have him back.”
Gemma has always been open about her desire to be a mum but feared she couldn’t have kids. She says: “I am looking forward to the summer, I am obviously going to Spain and I’ll be with Arg.
“We do have an amazing sex life and you know if it happens, it happens. I don’t go, ‘Right it’s the 14th day of the month, we’ve got to do it ten times’.
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“I’m letting nature take its course, but I did go to Harley Street and see a really amazing doctor and he checked me over and he said, ‘You’re absolutely fine’.”
And then she adds with a purr: “You either love me or you hate me, but once you get to know me and understand me, you realise I’m just a big ball of fun with glitter shooting off of me.
“A diva is really, underneath it all, very soft. I’ve got a big heart, I’m very soft.”
Until you cross her . . .
- How To Be A Diva by Gemma Collins (Headline Review, £16.99) is published on June 28
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