Gemma Collins in the new Orange Is The New Black teaser (Photo: Netflix)
Here at the GSN office, we love Gemma Collins and we adore Orange Is The New Black. Combining the two together was always going to get out interest. And that’s what Netflix has done in a light-hearted new teaser for the sixth season of the prison-set drama.
The teaser video shows, Collins, former star of the TV docu-reality show The Only Way Is Essex, at Litchfield Prison in upstate New York.
Wearing trademark orange prison clothing, Collins, 37, meets show longrunners Crazy Eyes (Uzo Aduba), Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) and Ruiz (Jessica Pimentel).
The cellmates at first wonder, ‘Who’s the new British girl, with the chains?’
‘Do you think she knows the Queen?’
‘Girls,’ replies Gemma Collins. ‘I hear you talking. Yes, I am the queen of England. But you can call me Gemma.’
They then quiz her on where they know her face from.
Watch the clip below
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A spokesperson for Collins, dubbed ‘Queen of Memes’, confirmed back in January that she was in talks with Netflix to help promote the new season. Yesterday, Collins also posted an image to her own Twitter and Instagram of her in an orange prison outfit.
Orange has always been my favourite colour pic.twitter.com/xwSHYWeqQu
— Gemma Collins (@missgemcollins) July 17, 2018
It’s not thought that Collins will appear in the actual show. GSN has contacted her management for comment.
The news season of Orange Is The New Black airs on Netflix from 27 July.
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