The Big 4-0

The Gemma Collins Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Gemma’s about to turn 40, and here’s how she’s going to celebrate. It’s made her think about how quickly time goes and how she just wants everything to slow down.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:04.6	J.C. You name it.
0:06.6	No, yes, I love cake.
0:09.2	Guys, keep being fabulous.
0:11.2	Radio One presents the Gemma Collins podcast.
0:15.0	Darlings, welcome to another fabulous Gemma Collins podcast. Now this week I am officially turning
0:29.1	the big for a now guys I know I don't look it. I honestly cannot believe I have been on this earth for 40 years. This week is just such an amazing build-up because I've turned 40 years old.
0:51.5	I can't believe it's here. I don't look faulty. I don't feel faulty and I certainly
0:58.8	don't act like a 40 year old but then I started thinking well what does a 40 year old act like?
1:04.8	So I'm officially you're hearing it here first 40 is the new 20 and I feel better than ever. It has been a terrible start to the new year because my dad has
1:21.3	sadly been fighting for his life with COVID. However, he comes home this week,
1:27.6	so it is the best birthday in lockdown that I could ever wish for. So yes, I can't have the party that was planned. I'd arranged,
1:38.4	I had arranged so many singers to come to a venue that I had booked last year and it's not going to happen but you know what it doesn't matter because my dad has survived COVID-19 and they actually called him the miracle man in the hospital
1:58.1	because my dad is 73 and he's a very fit man. However, COVID really, you know, ripped through my family and, you know, it just was so heartbreaking to see my dad fighting for his life.
2:16.1	But we won't dwell on that because it is my birthday and obviously I'm in lockdown and I have ordered myself a huge cake so the
2:27.1	fact that I can sit with my dad eating cake on my birthday is absolutely priceless. I have ordered my
2:37.1	favorite cake I've ordered three large French fancies. They are my favorite cake in the whole wide world and
2:45.2	Battenburg. But I didn't want to be too greedy. So I have just gone for
2:50.4	three large French fancies. And you know what my birthday wish this year
2:56.2	is just to be just so happy with you know what I've. I've always felt happy anyway with what I've got.
3:06.0	So I don't need anything. I don't need absolutely anything.
3:12.0	So this birthday birthday I just want to wish for
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