Piers Morgan’s Life Stories

ITV, 9pm Gemma Collins (right) is one of the more successful of the generation of reality stars who have gone on to sustained careers.

Having first appeared in The Only Way Is Essex a decade ago, the former car saleswoman has not only firmly established herself as a fixture of the schedules, featuring on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother and Dancing On Ice, she has even been embraced by the BBC, which has given Collins her own podcast show.

But now she’s poised to reveal to fans what lies behind her public image in an intimate and far-reaching interview with Piers Morgan, in the first episode of his new five-part series.

Chris Eubank, Coleen Nolan, Trisha Goddard and Rupert Everett are lined up to be the guests he’ll be grilling in future weeks.