GK Barry has revealed the incredibly expensive purchase he made after achieving overnight fame following his social media success.
The star, whose real name is Grace Eleanor Keeling, rose to fame during the first Covid-19 lockdown when she began making TikToks about her daily life while studying film at Nottingham Trent University.
A successful podcast and guest appearances on Loose Women followed, and she also kept fans on their toes as she documented her love life.
Chatting to his friend the Reverend Richard Coles, he confessed that he impulsively bought a Porsche after thinking: “I could buy a Porsche and it wouldn’t be a problem.”
Richard asked the star: ‘So Grace, you went from working in Costa to suddenly being able to buy a house?’
As she answered, ‘Yes,’ he continued, ‘So you didn’t go from poor, poor, poor, a little less poor, a little more money, but you went from poor to rich?’
I’m A Celeb’s GK Barry has revealed the incredibly expensive impulse purchase he made after achieving overnight success on his social media.
The star, whose real name is Grace Eleanor Keeling, rose to fame during the first Covid-19 lockdown when she started making TikToks about her daily life while studying film at university.
Grace then explained: ‘Yeah, pretty quick. And I remember saying, “Now I’m making enough money to buy a new car.”
“I remember a Porsche passing me when I had that thought and I remember thinking, ‘I could buy a Porsche and it wouldn’t be a problem.’
‘I went downtown, I was looking at an old one that was cheaper, but the one I wanted was next door and it was very nice.
“I called my accountant and said, ‘Can I do it?’ And he said, ‘Yes,’ so I bought it. I picked it up two days later.
When asked what color it was, she confirmed: “Black, with red inside.”
Grace went viral after sharing a video showing what she really looked like behind the carefully edited Instagram glamour, and sparked a trend of other influencers doing the same.
The video racked up nearly 94,000 likes and social media users around the world began replicating the video and using their voiceover to expose what they really look like when posting online.
He soon gained a huge following and within a year, he had amassed a whopping one million followers on the video-sharing platform.
Chatting to his friend the Reverend Richard Coles, he confessed that he impulsively bought a Porsche after thinking: “I could buy a Porsche and it wouldn’t be a problem.”
She confessed: “I called my accountant and said, ‘Can I do it?’ And he said, ‘Yes,’ so I bought it. I picked it up two days later.’
Currently, he has 3.8 million followers on TikTok and an impressive million fans on Instagram. The star also began appearing on Loose Women.
Currently, he has 3.8 million followers on TikTok, 61,000 subscribers on YouTube, and an impressive one million fans on Instagram.
Cambridge-born Grace created her own podcast, Saving Grace, in April 2022 and has interviewed numerous celebrities including Coleen Nolan, Olivia Bowen and Alan Carr.
In early 2024, GK took the podcast, which is also uploaded as a vodcast to YouTube, on a sold-out tour across the country.
Since gaining recognition online, GK has made several television appearances and this year was named a regular guest panelist on Loose Women, making history as the youngest panellist to appear on the show.