Gemma Collins begs for help after disaster strikes during a visit to the hair salon
GEMMA Collins begged fans to save her last night after disaster struck during a trip to the salon.
All hell broke loose when the lights cut out and 42-year-old Gemma was forced to cry “help”.
“So we’re in the hairdressers and there is a power cut in the whole village,” Gemma told fans on Instagram.
“What’s going on? What’s happened? This is scary. Help!”
Panicking, Gemma panned the camera around to show the room and plunged into darkness, while her hairdresser waved a torch around.
Despite the chaos Gemma – who took part in The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer this week – was able to later show fans her stunning blow dry.
She captioned a photo: “A beautiful evening with my @edwardtaylorhair we laugh we eat we goss #worlddomination lol and thank you @talliastorm for my fabulous theme tune.”
Gemma’s fans were quick to praise the glam look.
One said: “Colour is amaze, you look gorg!”
Another remarked: “You are so pretty.”
Gemma recently opened up about losing a female family member to cancer, and her mum finding a lump.
She said she has spoken to her doctor about a BRCA gene test — which screens DNA to assess the risk — in the hope of getting peace of mind.
Gemma broke down in tears as she recalled the moment her mum said doctors had found a lump.
She said: “It was over the phone. I was in the back of a taxi in London and I was like, ‘Are you all right, mum? Where are you?’ — as we say every day, ten times a day.
“She said, ‘Ah I didn’t want to tell you, but I’ve had a lump in my breast. I was like, ‘What?’, and she said, ‘But it’s fine I’ve got the all-clear’. I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Why didn’t you tell me?”
Gemma continued: “It’s something that I’ve never spoken about. I was filming Diva Forever at the time so she never said a thing about the diagnosis, which must have been scary for her.
“She found the lump on the side of her right breast but she only told me when it was all over.
“Thank God she got it checked and thank God they caught it in the nick of time.
“She knew that I would have fallen apart in the worst-case scenario so she kept it to herself because she didn’t want to upset me — but she was very scared.”
Gemma added: “She basically caught it and they removed it straight away. They were fantastic — again big up the NHS.
“It’s a different story now and she got the all-clear.”