{"id":790544,"date":"2026-10-03T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:48:09","slug":"from-molly-mae-to-gemma-collins-filming-the-real-lives-behind-the-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790544\/","title":{"rendered":"From Molly-Mae to Gemma Collins &#8211; filming the real lives behind the headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demi began her career in the industry as a runner at the age of 17 and has since worked on shows including The Secret Life of Four Year Olds, Big Brother, The Apprentice, Sort Your Life Out and Getting Filthy Rich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now as creative director of her own label, she has worked with Little Mix star Jesy Nelson and reality TV favourite Gemma Collins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think with Jesy and Gemma, they weren&#8217;t the shows that we set out to make,&#8221; said Demi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like with Jesy, a week into filming, she then got rushed into hospital and didn&#8217;t come out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were going to do this documentary about why she left Little Mix, which we got, but also at the same time now, it was all about her being a first-time mum and dealing with TTTS (twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome &#8211; a rare but serious condition when the babies share one placenta).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So that whole show changed and the same with Gemma really.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We set out with Four Weddings and a Baby and the whole year just turned into complete chaos and upset and drama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You set out to make something, but real life happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demi began her career in the industry as a runner at the age of 17 and has since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}