Celeb GCSE’s – What Holly Willoughby, Ant and Dec and Cheryl got in their exams

GCSE results day is a nerve-wracking ordeal at best, but this year's looks set to be even more stressful thanks to Covid-19.

Exams were cancelled across the country meaning 16 year olds will instead be rewarded based on the predicted grades given by their teachers.

But for those who don't get the grades they'd hoped for, remember that not everything is set in stone. Take TOWIE diva Gemma Collins for example.

She scored a U in maths – which basically means she failed – but went on to rake in more than three million quid through clothing deals, books and TV appearances.

And she’s not the only one who got results you wouldn’t expect…

Last year Olly bravely shared his grades with fans to prove they’re not the be all and end all.

His highest achievements were a respectable B and C in English and a C in art.

That was followed up with six Ds in PE, maths, geography, graphic products, French and English literature, and an E for science.

Reassuring his Twitter followers, he said: “Wow it’s GCSE results today! Don’t be scared, Don’t be worried!

"These results will not define you as a person or predict your future! To make you feel better check mine out if you believe you can achieve!”

Chez dropped out at school at 16 and didn’t bother with the whole GCSE thing.

Instead she threw everything behind her singing career and won a place in Girls Aloud in 2002’s Pop Stars: The Rivals.

"Ever since I was a kid I've loved performing, being on stage, singing, dancing and showing off.

"There was just always something inside me, like, I knew there was no other option,” she explained in her book, Through My Eyes.

The soul star from Devon suffers from dyslexia and left school with just three GCSEs, later admitting her exams had been “the most difficult thing.”

“I’m terrible at exams. I’m terrible when it’s something I’m just not interested in,” she told Soul Train.

“Learning is a wonderful and fun experience, and can be absolutely brilliant.

“But if you’re being forced to gain knowledge on something in which you have no interest whatsoever, it’s not going to work.

“It’s a waste of life. You may as well learn something you’re going to enjoy.”

The former TOWIE star was pleased as punch when he re-sat his general studies GCSE in 2016 and scored a D.

She might have been famed for showing her boobs off in that bizarre belt bra contraption, but behind the exhibitionism, it turns out Jodi is a bit of a brain box.

She revealed in the past: "I got 11 GCSEs all at A & A* and three A levels but I didn't go to Uni."

This Morning presenter Holly was privately educated at the posh Burgess Hill Girls School.

But just before her GCSEs, she was diagnosed with dyslexia after realising she couldn’t read anything written on a white page.

"I got really distracted by the white runs of spaces in between,” she explained.

Her teacher came up with the idea of having everything printed on coloured paper, “which is brilliant in telly because scripts are always printed on coloured paper – never had a white script in my life,” she said.

“I was quite concerned when I first started using autocue… But as long as I've read it all once, and I know what's coming, it's fine."

While she’s never divulged her exact grades, she did well enough to study psychology at university but abandoned those plans to pursue a TV career and a gig hosting ITV’s Saturday morning kid’s show, Ministry of Mayhem.

They’re clearly as in-sync off stage as they are on it because both got exactly the same number of GCSEs at the same grades – five in total, three Bs and two Cs.

But Dec says he’s the numbers brain behind the operation.

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