N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos is the third star to arrive at Brisbane Airport ahead of this year’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.
The 36-year-old former X-Factor judge stepped back from the spotlight in 2013 after a series of scandals but ten years later went on tour with N-Dubz and is now re-entering the reality TV world with a rumoured stint on the ITV flagship show.
Arriving Down Under the pop star kept a low profile amid the crowds, covering her identity with a full grey tracksuit, a mask and kept her head down as she walked.
After her 22-hour flight she asked: ‘Is there a McDonalds round here?’ and added, ‘Can’t go wrong with a Big Mac can you?’
She yesterday revealed she was going to get a ‘fat transfer’ in the future to help bring down the bruising in her face which makes her ‘paranoid’.
N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos is the third star to arrive at Brisbane Airport ahead of this year’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
The singer, 36, took to Instagram on Saturday to point out the bruising on her right cheek, which she claimed appeared after years of taking steroid injections to control chronic cysts.
Tulisa has had 10 cysts in total removed from the inside of her mouth in the last few months, after constantly feeling like her ‘cheek was on fire’ and suffering from the sensation of ants crawling in her face.
Rising to fame in the mid-2000s with the London hip-hop group, N-Dubz, made up of herself, her cousin Dappy and his best friend Fazer, Tulisa parted ways with them in 2011.
It was then she landed the coveted role of X-Factor judge at the age of 22 and remains the youngest judge in the show’s history.
Simon Cowell hired her to replace Cheryl Cole and Tulisa went on to discover Little Mix, who have gone on to become one of the most successful girl groups in history.
However, her X-Factor success was tainted by scandal as a sex tape featuring the star emerged online, leaked by her ex-boyfriend which she has since said made her feel like her ‘world was ending’.
A year later she quit the X-Factor and told Olivia Attwood’s podcast last month: ‘Going back on X factor it felt like virtual rape. I felt judged, disgusted, and ashamed. I just winged it like I had from the second I got in there but this time I was winging it with my own emotions, just trying to keep my head above water.
‘I just became miserable by the end of that second year, I wasn’t going to do the show again and they could already see where it was going and they weren’t going to hire me again but then by that point, I’d already said I can’t do this.
‘I hate it every day. I just felt all these eyes on me and it reminded me of what happened. I needed time to go away and think about what happened.’
After quitting the X-Factor in 2013, Tulisa was caught up in a drugs scandal when she was arrested on suspicion of supplying class-A drugs.
But it was, in fact, part of a sting operation by the News of the World’s notorious undercover reporter, Mazher Mahmood, otherwise known as the Fake Sheik.
He claimed she had organised a deal to sell him drugs while he was posing as a wealthy film producer.
The case went to court and Mahmood was accused of tampering with evidence and the case against Tulisa collapsed.
He was later tried on related charges and sentenced to 15 months in prison and the I Need You Singer said: ‘Let me be perfectly clear.
‘I have never dealt drugs and I have never been involved in taking or dealing cocaine.
‘This whole case was a horrific and disgusting entrapment by Mazher Mahmood.’
A year later, she found herself back in court after being accused of attacking blogger and TOWIE star, Vas J Morgan, in a row at V-Festival in Essex in 2013.
The singer was convicted of assault and ordered to pay a £3,000 fine, later losing an appeal against the conviction.
But she is perhaps most well-known for her long-running legal battle against will.i.am and Britney Spears, who she accused of denying her a writing credit on their hit 2012 track, Scream and Shout.
She claimed to have co-written the song for The Female Boss but dropped it from the listing and will.i.am later used it for his Britney collaboration, Tulisa says you can clearly hear her vocals behind Britney’s.
In 2018, Tulisa won the case and was given official credit on the record and 10 percent of the publishing rights and income.
