Gemma Collins recounts her mum being abandoned in hospital as a baby as she tracks down long lost family she found ‘too painful’ to contact in first look clip


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Gemma Collins recounted her mother being abandoned in hospital as a baby in a first-look clip shared to Instagram on Thursday ahead of her upcoming television appearance.

Media personality Gemma, 43, will participate in Thursday night’s episode of BBC‘s Who Do You Think You Are?

The BBC hit is a genealogy series in which well-known people trace their family tree.

The programme has been airing since 2004, and series 21 kicked off in August with actress Vicky McClure. 

Thursday’s episode will see Gemma attempt to find her mother Joan’s birth family.

Gemma Collins, 43, recounted her mother being abandoned in hospital in a first-look clip shared to Instagram on Thursday of her upcoming television appearance

Gemma Collins, 43, recounted her mother being abandoned in hospital in a first-look clip shared to Instagram on Thursday of her upcoming television appearance 

Media personality Gemma will participate in Thursday night's episode of BBC 's Who Do You Think You Are?

Media personality Gemma will participate in Thursday night’s episode of BBC ‘s Who Do You Think You Are?

In a clip, she said: 'My mum was fostered. Why was she left at the hospital? Why did they not try and come back for her? She never talks about it. I just think it's too painful for her to go there'

In a clip, she said: ‘My mum was fostered. Why was she left at the hospital? Why did they not try and come back for her? She never talks about it. I just think it’s too painful for her to go there’

Gemma says in the clip: ‘My mum was fostered. Why was she left at the hospital? Why did they not try and come back for her? She never talks about it. I just think it’s too painful for her to go there.’

The clip ends with Gemma saying: ‘It will be nice to know where my mum is from. And just put all the pieces together.  

Each episode of Who Do You Think You Are? centres on one British celebrity.

Across its two-decade run, Who Do You Think You Are? has traced the family history of Adil Ray, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Clarkson, Barbara Windsor, Stephen Fry, J. K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, and many more.

Gemma Collins will appear in series 21, episode 7 of Who Do You Think You Are? airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9pm

Gemma Collins will appear in series 21, episode 7 of Who Do You Think You Are? airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9pm

Gemma has already shared her delight at the possibility of being related to serial killer Jack The Ripper.

Jack, who has never been identified, is Britain’s most notorious serial killer – murdering five women and terrorising London in 1888, but was never caught. 

And Gemma believes she has discovered the identity of Jack the Ripper and is convinced she is related to him. 

She was convinced of the link on Who Do You Think You Are? when she discovered that she has ancestors who lived on Dorset Street in East London – where Jack left some of his victims’ mutilated corpses.

 



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