I’m A Celeb’s GK Barry reveals the extremely costly impulse buy she made after reaching in a single day success together with her social media

GK Barry has revealed the incredibly expensive purchase she made after achieving overnight fame following her social media success. 

The star, whose real name is Grace Eleanor Keeling, soared to fame during the first Covid-19 lockdown when she started making TikToks about her daily life while studying film at Nottingham Trent University.

A successful podcast and guest stints on Loose Women have followed, and she’s also kept fans on their toes while documenting her love life. 

Chatting with her pal Reverend Richard Coles she confessed she impulsively bought a Porsche after thinking: ‘I could buy a Porsche and it would not be an issue.’ 

Richard asked the star: ‘So Grace did you go from working in Costa to all of a sudden being able to buy a house?’

As she replied: ‘Yeah,’ he continued: ‘So you didn’t go from poor, poor, poor, a little less poor, a bit more money, you went from poor to rich?’

I’m A Celeb’s GK Barry has revealed the incredibly expensive impulse purchase she made after achieving overnight success with her social media

The star, whose real name is Grace Eleanor Keeling, soared 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 being like, “I’m making enough money to buy a new car now”.

‘I remember a Porsche drove past me as I had that thought and I remember thinking, “I could buy a Porsche and it would not be an issue.”

‘I went to the centre, I was looking at an old one that was cheaper, but the one that I wanted was next to it and it was so nice. 

‘I rang my accountant and I was like, ‘Can I do it?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah’, so I bought it. I picked it up two days later.’

Asked what colour it is she confirmed: ‘Black, with a red interior.’

Grace went viral after she shared a video showing off what she really looked like behind the glamour of carefully edited Instagram – and it in sparked a trend of other influencers doing the same.

The video racked up almost 94,000 likes, and social media users from around the world then began replicating the video and using her voiceover to expose how they actually look when posting online.

She soon gained a huge following and within a year, had amassed a whopping one million followers on the video-sharing platform. 

Chatting with her pal Reverend Richard Coles she confessed she impulsively bought a Porsche after thinking: ‘I could buy a Porsche and it would not be an issue’

She confessed: ‘I rang my accountant and I was like, ‘Can I do it?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah’, so I bought it. I picked it up two days later’

At present, she now has a huge 3.8million followers on TikTok and an impressive one million fans on Instagram. The star has also begun featuring on Loose Women 

At present, she now has a huge 3.8million followers on TikTok, 61,000 subscribers on YouTube and an impressive one million fans on Instagram.

Cambridge-born Grace went on to create her very on 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 on YouTube, on a sold-out tour around the country.

Since gaining recognition online, GK has made a number of TV appearances and this year was made a regular guest panelist on Loose Women – and made history as the youngest panelist to appear on the show.