Working out in the grounds of her Essex palace, Gemma Collins has gone full-on fitness influencer in the last few weeks. The GC has been showing fans “the realities of getting a gorgeous feeling about yourself” by sharing her current intense workout regime. She even showed off her impressive weight loss, lifting up her top and telling her followers, “A few weeks ago, I would not have been pulling up my top”.
A source close to the 40 year old tells heat she has never been happier after going through a rough time recently when her beloved dad was hospitalised with COVID, as well as ongoing issues with on/off boyfriend James “Arg” Argent, 33.
“Gemma is feeling in such a great place with her diet and fitness routine right now, and is pushing herself even harder to finally get the body she wants,” we’re told.
“After getting really down in lockdown with her father’s ill health and her relationship with Arg being so difficult, it helped that she was finally able to take control of something. She’s done loads of different diets and fitness regimes over the years, but the difference this time around is that Gem really has been putting the grind into her workouts and not making any excuses. She’ll start workouts at 6am and do different types of circuit training, which she will repeat up to six times a day – and she’s being very strict about sticking to a healthy diet.”
CHECK OUT Gemma Collins' best diva moments of all time
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1 of 12When Gemma paraded through the Big Brother garden with a Shetland pony
When the Celebrity Big Brother stars were asked what one-off luxury they would like to be treated to in the isolated house, what did Gemma ask for? Contact with her family? Nope. A pamper treatment? Not quite... No, the GC asked for none other than a Shetland pony - which she proceeded to dance with around the garden. While stroking the pony, Gemma exclaimed "I want pink ones with glitter in their hair".
2 of 12When Matt Evers saved Gemma's precious blow-dry from the rain
Matt Evers protects Gemma Collin's fabulous blow-dry whilst leaving himself to become soaked in the rain on the Dancing on Ice red carpet.
3 of 12When Gemma slipped during her Dancing on Ice routine
The 2019 series of Dancing on Ice is the gift that keeps on giving and poor old Gemma had viewers glued to their screens when she tripped over her foot and skidded across the ice. Ouch. The TOWIE queen soon picked herself up and styled through her ice-skating miss-hap. Jason Gardiner reportedly suggested that Gemma's fall was karma for her diva tantrum the week before.
4 of 12When Gemma's entourage fixed her dress on the NTAs red carpet
Can you even call yourself a diva if you don't enlist a personal helper on the red carpet? The GC had her entourage to hand, ready to smooth out any creases in her glamorous dress.
5 of 12When she spent 72 hours in the jungle
Gemma famously lasted just 72 hours in the I'm a Celebrity jungle, but she still managed to make the nation laugh with her outrageous behaviour. The TOWIE star even insisted "People that murdered get treated better than this, and thats the truth. Even a murderer gets fed three times a day."
6 of 12Gemma's infamous candy scene
Ah, the early days of Gemma and Arg's relationship. The GC was filmed in a Marbella special, when she famously told on/off boyfriend Arg "Don't ever disrespect a girl like that again. Take a good look at this, you ain't ever gonna get this candy.", before dropping her throw and strutting away in a black swimsuit.
7 of 12Gemma's friendship with Kim K's BFF
Gemma made pals with no other than Kim K's best-friend, Jonathan Cheban in Big Brother, where she told him "By the time you're finished with me, I'm gonna be a Gem-dashian." The stars have been friends ever since and Jonathan even flies over to the UK to visit Gemma, where the pair go on fancy shopping trips to Harrods together.
8 of 12When she was a total diva in an interview
Anyone else still cringe when they remember that painfully awkward chat between Gemma and an interviewer who hadn't read her book? The GC had a major diva-meltdown when she found out the journalist hadn't been seen a copy before holding the interview, thus ending the call, "Darling, don't worry, we're going to get the book publishers to send everyone doing an interview the book. Thank you, bye!"
9 of 12When Gemma went into full GC mode on Jason Gardiner
Dancing on Ice has been full of feisty celeb dramas. Gemma didn't hold back after Jason Gardiner accused of her being lazy. The TOWIE star furiously shouted "Boring!" before yelling, "Don't sell stories on me." Poor Matt Evers couldn't even hide how awkward he felt...
10 of 12When she dumped her date live on Loose Women
Ah, poor Laurence Hearn - the charming man that attempted to win over Gemma, only to be dumped live on Loose Women weeks later. OUCH.
11 of 12Basically, her entire time in the CBB house
Other hilarious moments from Gemma's stint in the Big Brother house included yelling at producers, "I don't need the money! I've got money!". She also got upset when Big Brother failed to provide professional blow-dries: "This is very expensive hair and its all frazzled, because you've only got straighteners in here, you haven't got heated rollers. So, you can pay for me to have a new set of extensions. Straighteners are what weirdos use on their hair."
12 of 12And when she fell down the trap door at the Teen Choice Awards
Talking of Gemma's tumbles - how could anyone forget her iconic fall down the trap door at the BBC1 Radio Teen Choice Awards?
Gemma – who’s lost around 3st – is now helping to motivate her fans into starting their own fitness journeys.
She recently shared on Instagram, “STAY FOCUSED! And don’t let ANYTHING STOP YOU! Today I cut off 20 mins of time in my training. When I first started, I never thought I would be cutting my routine and speeding it up by twenty mins! Feeling good.”
However, our source reveals that some of her friends are concerned she’s going “too fast and too hard”, but the GC is just shrugging it off.
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We’re told, “Gem has said she is finally getting the body she wants and is well on her way to her goal of losing another 3st. She says she’s not done yet and wants her bikini body back from her early 20s in time for the summer, giving her a few more months to achieve it all.”
And it seems the reality star is particularly enjoying how much of a distraction the exercise is providing. “Since seeing her results after throwing herself into her routine, Gem has said she’s at last been able to think of something other than Arg,” our source says. “There’s so much she gets upset about not having in her life – the perfect man, her own family, the perfect body – but now she feels she’s actually doing something about it.”
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