{"id":2375594,"date":"2026-04-16T07:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2375594"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:09:22","slug":"im-a-celebritys-gemma-collins-exposes-huge-lie-im-never-going-to-live-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/im-a-celebritys-gemma-collins-exposes-huge-lie-im-never-going-to-live-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m A Celebrity’s Gemma Collins exposes huge lie ‘I’m never going to live it down’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reality star Gemma Collins, who is currently appearing in ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… South Africa, has owned up to a lie she once told<\/h2>\n
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Tianna Corbin<\/strong> TV Reporter<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gemma revealed she once lied during her Piers Morgan interview(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ITV I’m A Celebrity… South Africa star Gemma Collins has spoken out about a huge lie she once told on TV to Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

Gemma has been in the spotlight since her TOWIE debut back in 2011. Since then, she\u2019s been on a range of TV shows, including Dancing on Ice, I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026Get Me Out of Here!,<\/a> Celebrity Big Brother and The Real Full Monty.<\/p>\n

Currently, she\u2019s one of the stars competing for the title of jungle legend <\/a>in I\u2019m A Celebrity… South Africa, hoping to perform better than she did during her first stint on the original show 12 years ago.<\/p>\n

However, the ITV<\/a> star was once the focus of Piers Morgan\u2019s Life Stories, who grilled her about making an explicit adult tape. Although Gemma confessed during an appearance on Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable that it was all a lie.<\/p>\n

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Gemma Collins is competing for legend status on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa(Image: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Explaining the huge mishap, she said: \u201cBasically, I said in an interview once, thinking it was funny, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019ve done a sex tape like Kim K\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cDidn\u2019t think any more of it, laughed it off. Next thing, I\u2019m not being interviewed by Piers Morgan on Life Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gemma explained that Piers mentioned her \u2018sex tape\u2019 during the interview to delve deeper into it. However, the reality star decided not to tell the truth and continue with the lie.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cNow, I\u2019m in deep. Then he goes, \u2018Well, at what point does a reality star kind of draw their moral compass, you know, would you sell the sex tape for money?\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cThen I went, thinking it was all a joke, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019d set up the call lines to make all the profits from the phone-in, pay-per-view\u2019. You know, the business mind\u2019s going.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, her joke took a turn as she explained that Piers then turned to her parents in the audience and asked Gemma how it felt for her mum and dad to be hearing this.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cAnyway, I got myself in a whole hot water!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Piers Morgan grilled Gemma Collins about her fake tape<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wanting to know more about this supposed tape, Piers asked Gemma who it was with. Keeping up the lie, the reality star decided to give a name.<\/p>\n

Cutting in, Mel jokingly asked if it was DIY SOS star Nick Knowles as Gemma replied: \u201cNo, I\u2019d like it to be with Nick Knowles. I fancy him. He\u2019s got something about him, ol\u2019 Nick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never going to live it down. There is no sex tape, it\u2019s one big godawful lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stream Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable free on U!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.walesonline.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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