GK Barry, real name Grace Keeling, rose to fame on TikTok before starting her successful podcast, Saving Grace. She also appeared on I’m A Celeb last year
GK Barry, real name Grace Keeling, has been raking in the cash thanks to her podcast success as well as her appearance on I’m A Celebrity.
The star quickly became a fan-favourite on IAC last year, with the internet personality forming a unique friendship with Reverend Richard Coles. She also provided viewers and campmates entertainment thanks to her witty humour, dramatic responses and friendly exterior.
The 25-year-old has been on the rise over the last few years. She first rose to fame posting funny videos on TikTok in 2020 while completing a film studies degree at Nottingham Trent University. It wasn’t long until she surpassed one million followers. In 2022, she started a podcast called Saving Grace where she chats to various celebrities.
After skyrocketing to fame, she even joined the cast of Loose Women as a panellist and went on to appear on I’m A Celeb. This year, fans were shocked to see her cameo as Vanessa in the Netflix series, Missing You. Latests accounts for her business show she has assets of over £1.2million, which is up from £484,000 in 2023.
Last year, GK admitted fame wasn’t always on the vision board for her, with the star telling The Mirror it was “an entirely accidental career for me” as she hadn’t expected to go viral with her videos. She explained: “I called myself GK Barry because I didn’t want people from school or university finding my videos. I was embarrassed about it at first.
“It’s ironic – when you’re small, a lot of people will judge you for the content you are putting out. But as you start getting bigger, all those people who judged you want to become your best friend.” On I’m A Celeb, she even opened up about going from ‘poor to Porsche’ almost overnight.
Rev. Richard asked: “So Grace did you go from working in Costa to all of a sudden being able to buy a house?” The podcaster replied: “Yeah.” Continuing, Richard queried: “So you didn’t go from poor, poor, poor, a little less poor, a bit more money, you went from poor to rich?”
To which GK answered: “Yeah, pretty quick. And I remember being like, ‘I’m making enough money to buy a new car now’ and I remember a Porsche drove past me as I had that thought. 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.”
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