Gemma Collins will rake in £250k for just ONE week’s work on new UK tour
REALITY telly queen Gemma Collins is set to rake £250,000 – for one week’s work.
The GC, 40, is taking to the stage for a seven-date theatre tour and fans are expected to sell out all of the venues.
Gemma has almost sold-out Manchester’s 1,915-seat Opera House and other the other theatres are all headed the same way.
Tickets cost start at £33 and soar to £113 for a VIP meet and great package.
Yet seats for Gemma’s The GC’s Big Night Out tour are selling like hot cakes.
She’ll kick off her whistle-stop show in London on October 15 and then take to Cardiff, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Southampton before ending in Manchester.
But the ex-Towie won’t be visiting Essex!
CASHING IN
A showbiz source said: “It will be hard week for Gemma but it will be doing what she does best – chatting to fans.
“She will be looking at a £250,000 take for the week with ticket prices and merchandise. That’s not a bad little earner.”
Gemma, who first shot to TV fame in the second series of Towie back in 2011, is taking her Big Night Out show on the road in the autumn.
Announcing the tour on her Instagram page in April, Gemma – a contestant on the likes of I’m A Celebrity, Celebrity Big Brother and Dancing on Ice – wrote: “I am so EXCITED to tell you all !!!! Woo hoo that my theatre tour is going on SALE FRIDAY 10 AM FRIDAY!!!!
“Yes this FRIDAY 10 AM!!!!! You can get your tickets to a fabulous night with me my very own theatre tour !!! Omg my very own theatre tour!!!!!
Her post quickly gathered a big response with her former Towie co-star Gatsby commenting: “Sickkkkk I’m there.” Fellow Towie star Chloe Sims reacted with a series of applause emojis.
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Celebrity hairstylist, James Johnson, meanwhile posted, “Oh yeh oh yeh can’t wait for this,” and a GC fan wrote: “OMG”.
In addition to starring in a string of well-known programmes over the past 10 years, Gemma has also tasted success with her own series’, including Diva Forever and Diva On Lockdown.
She also has her own fashion empire and podcast with the BBC.