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Gemma Collins has confirmed she’s is planning to stay in her native Essex, despite a ordeal and a rumoured move to Dubai.
The TV personality, 40, said she was buying in the process of buying a new home in the area after a whopping £1.8million payday.
Last year Daily Mail exclusively revealed Daily Mail how Gemma had been received multiple death threats from ‘scary’ people who turned up at her Essex shop and send terrifying letters to her home.
Then earlier this month she was rumoured to have set her sights on a fresh start in the UAE, where she often holidays with fiancé Rami Hawash and stepson Tristan, seven considering the country a ‘perfect’ location to grow her family.
But now Gemma has said: ‘I’ve earned £1.8million and I’m in the process of buying a new house at the minute, I’m not saying exactly where’.
‘Nothing is selling at the moment because of the Budget but hopefully now things will start moving, but I am staying in Essex’.
Gemma Collins has confirmed she’s is planning to stay in her native Essex, despite a ordeal and a rumoured move to Dubai
The TV personality, 40, said she was buying in the process of buying a new home in the area after a whopping £1.8million payday
She went on to tell The Sun that her only hope for Christmas was for her mother Joan, 70, to return home from hospital where she is being treated for pneumonia.
‘[My mother is] my best friend and lives with me. I’m not bothered about money. It helps, but nothing else matters when you’ve got a loved one who is ill’.
Gemma’s representatives to declined to comment further when contacted by Daily Mail.
Speaking during a candid interview on the Everything I Know About Me podcast, the TOWIE star said her stalker ordeal had ‘played havoc on her mind’ and was the reason she stepped away from her front of house work at her Brentwood boutique.
Gemma said: ‘No one would believe the bl**dy crap I’ve had to deal with. I’ve had a woman stalker that wrote me a letter in white gloves and wanted to kill me.
‘You know, people would wish me dead. I’d get all sorts turn up at the shop. Weird. People are weird. And that’s why in a way I came away from my shop in the end.’
Gemma contacted police about some of the incidents but admitted she only really felt safe once she ramped up her own personal security.
She recently opened up about her recent mental health struggles in a festive snap shared to her Instagram on Thursday, just weeks after her mum was taken to the hospital.
Last year Daily Mail revealed Daily Mail how Gemma had been received multiple death threats from ‘scary’ people who turned up at her Essex shop and send terrifying letters to her home
But now Gemma has said: ‘I’ve earned £1.8million and I’m in the process of buying a new house at the minute, I’m not saying exactly where’ (Gemma’s current home pictured)
The TV star admitted that behind the glam of the festive photo, she has been struggling the last three weeks and feels ‘broken inside’.
She told her followers: ‘SOS. Behind the glam of this picture the last three weeks I have been broken inside and so low I can’t tell you. Remember it’s who’s round the table and not what gifts you get .
‘Normally I’m 100 million miles Infront upbeat and organized with mum being in hospital I’ve not been able to cope recently everything is too much even getting dressed daily, mum will be home soon and I will be happy again I’m sure.
She added: ‘Sadly I was let down by my Christmas install company if anyone has a slot and is happy for us to film for sky tv please let me know.
‘Is anyone else struggling this year ? Are you feeling it any tips for feeling low I’ve never had this before x ITS funny how the gram tells a thousand lies !!!’
She previously revealed that Joan is ‘slowly on the mend’ as she shared a snap of her smiling mother in her hospital bed with family.
She wrote: ‘Seeing mummy slowly on the mend today finally is a miracle from above and the incredible doctors and physios at Broomfield hospital. I can’t thank you enough.’
Pneumonia is a type of chest infection that affects the tiny air sacs in the lungs. The condition causes these sacs to be become inflamed and fill with fluid, making it harder to breathe.
