Tulisa has broken her silence after she baffled fans by deleting all traces of her time on I’m A Celeb from her social media just one day after leaving the show.
After receiving her phone back, the 36-year-old N-Dubz musician, who was the third campmate to be kicked out on Monday night’s show, wasted no time in deleting the posts documenting her time on the ITV series.
Taking her to her Instagram to explain the odd behaviour, Tulisa said: “Just so you know, when I came out of the jungle, I felt fine first of all and then that evening my friends went to bed."
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She continued: "I was on my Instagram trying to have a nice little scroll at some funny stuff.
"I was getting a lot of attention, a lot of bombarding in all the most positive way. But because it's been a while for me I can get overwhelmed quite easily.'
"And I just started to feel overwhelmed. I thought do you know what, I really just need to take a bit of time for me and just chill.
"This is all feeling just a little bit much at the moment. I'm just going to archive all my stuff to do with the jungle.
"Then when the time is right and I've had a little time to process I'm going to make my own reels of all my best bits I really like.
"I’m just gonna have a little week with my thoughts, I will be back”
Tulisa also responded to reports she called her fellow campmates 'fake' on talk show Lorraine, saying: “I just want to clarify I don’t think any of my campmates are fake, what I was trying to say it that everyone in there is going to have one or two individuals that we’re way close with.”
She continued to say: “I love my jungle buddies, I love my jungle fam”.
However, eagle-eyed fans of the series noticed that she does not follow Barry McGuigan on Instagram, the only campmate with whom she is not digitally connected with.
As part of the series, friends and family of the contestants and previously evicted campmates wait at the Marriott Hotel to greet each celebrity as they leave the jungle with ITV filming.
When the fourth star Melvin Odoom was evicted, former campmates Jane Moore and Dean McCoullough were there to meet him, but Tulisa was noticeably absent.
Celebrities evicted from the jungle typically go on to also appear on the after-show hosted by Joel Dommett, Sam Thompson and Kemi Rodgers the day after they leave the show, but instead former contestant Jill Scott stepped in to cover for Tulisa who was unable to show because of “personal reasons”.
The news that the N-Dubz star had failed to appear on the Unpacked show came hours after she deleted all of her Instagram posts about her time in the ITV jungle.
Speaking about her love for dancer Oti, Tulisa added: “Oti is just the most beautiful human. Really hard to come across someone so genuine, so pure, I loved her.”
“She is just pure to the bone and people like her are really hard to come across. Really special.”
She added that Oti is who she hopes will claim the crown of the jungle.
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