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We take a look at social media and Loose Women star GK Barry and her huge rise to fame

- ARIANA LONGSON

In a bid to shake things up and attract new viewers, last year saw ITV recruit TikToker and podcaster GK Barry as the latest - and youngest - Loose Women panellist. But who is she and how did she become TV’s hottest new talent? ‘It all happened during lockdown,’ GK – whose real name is Grace Keeling – shares. She explains, ‘[While at Uni] I just started making videos of embarrassing things that had happened to me… my second video got something like 200k views, which was big news, and I just thought screw it I’m gonna keep doing it,’ adding, ‘from there, it just flew’. Here we chart the star’s rise to fame and see what’s next for her.

MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF