# GK Barry

Grace Eleanor Keeling (born 12 August 1999), known professionally as GK Barry, is an English internet personality, social media influencer and presenter. Keeling began posting on video-sharing platform TikTok in 2020 whilst completing a film studies degree at Nottingham Trent University, during which she worked on the BBC soap opera Doctors. After one year of posting lifestyle videos on the app, she surpassed 1 million followers. She began presenting a podcast, Saving Grace, in April 2022, which sees her interviewing various celebrities. She has since gone on to tour the Saving Grace podcast around the UK. In 2024, Keeling joined the cast of Loose Women as a panellist, making her the youngest regular panellist in the show's 25-year history. She went on to appear in the twenty-fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! later that year. In 2025, she made her acting debut, with a cameo as Vanessa in the Netflix original series Missing You.

## Early life and education

Grace Eleanor Keeling was born on 12 August 1999 in Cambridge, England. When she was two her family moved to the British Virgin Islands, returning to the United Kingdom six years later.
GK studied film at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), obtaining a master's in digital marketing. Whilst at NTU, she worked with the BBC soap opera Doctors, creating videos for ShawMind and Nottinghamshire Police, helped the Nottingham Women's Centre rebrand their business and assisted on the set of the Netflix film Hood.

## Career

Keeling came to attention on TikTok in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. She chose the username @gkbarry due to initially not wanting her real name to become public and has explained that the username comes from her initials, GK, and the surname of her friend, Tatiana Barry. She admitted that in her final year of university, she prioritised TikTok over her work and felt that she could have achieved a better grade.
In late 2021, she appeared on the Fellas podcast, which led to Keeling starting her own podcast under The Fellas Studios, Saving Grace, in April 2022, which is also uploaded as a vodcast to YouTube. In November 2022, Keeling participated in Footasylum's "Locked In" online reality series in which she finished as the 2nd runner-up. In February 2023, Keeling toured the UK as part of her Saving Grace podcast. Later that month, she also appeared in an episode of Love Island: Aftersun to discuss the ninth series with presenter Maya Jama. She also fronted an advertisement campaign for KFC in July 2023. Keeling has also appeared on the ITV2 game show CelebAbility in July 2023, as well as appearing as a contestant in episodes of The Wheel and The Weakest Link on BBC One. In September 2023, Keeling was announced as one of the celebrities participating in Don't Look Down for Stand Up to Cancer, which aired on Channel 4 in October 2023. In October 2023, Keeling appeared as a guest panellist on the Big Brother companion show, Big Brother: Late & Live, to discuss the twentieth series with presenters Will Best and AJ Odudu.
From February to March 2024, Keeling completed a sold-out UK tour for a second time as part of the Saving Grace podcast. Guests for the second tour included Charity Shop Sue, Gemma Collins, Hannah Elizabeth, Chloe Ferry, Chris Hughes, Katie Price, Louie Spence, and Scott van-der-Sluis. The same year, she confirmed she was in a relationship with Ipswich Town footballer Ella Rutherford. Since August 2024, Keeling has appeared as a panellist on the ITV daytime talk show Loose Women, making her the youngest panellist ever on the show at the age of 25. In November 2024, Keeling was a contestant in the twenty-fourth series of the survival reality television show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was the eighth contestant to be eliminated, finishing in fifth place. Over a week after leaving I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Keeling took over Wembley Arena for her Saving Grace: XXX-Mas Special on 15 December 2024.
In January 2025, Keeling appeared as a guest panellist on the Channel 4 comedy talk show, The Last Leg. She is expected to tour the UK for a third time in September 2025, as part of the Saving Grace: Jungle Fever Tour.

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Production | Notes |
| 2023 | Love Island: Aftersun | Guest panellist | ITV2 | Series 9, Episode 6 |
| 2023 | The Weakest Link | Contestant | BBC One | Series 3, Episode 15 |
| 2023 | "Don't Look Down" for Stand Up to Cancer | Contestant | Channel 4 | |
| 2023 | Big Brother: Late & Live | Guest panellist | ITV2 | Series 1, Episode 28 |
| 2024 | Boss Pitches | Host | Channel 4 | |
| 2024 | The Wheel | Contestant | BBC One | Series 4, Episode 7 |
| 2024 | CelebAbility | Contestant | ITV2 | Series 7, Episode 5 |
| 2024 | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | Contestant | ITV | Series 24 (5th place) |
| 2024–present | Loose Women | Panellist | ITV | |
| 2025 | Missing You | Vanessa (Katalina) | Netflix | Cameo |
| 2025 | The Last Leg | Guest panellist | Channel 4 | Series 32, Episode 1 |