Tulisa Contostavlos has landed in the celebrity filled jungle this Winter alongside GK Barry, Coleen Rooney and many more.
Recently one of her pals has come to her defence regarding online trolling about her appearance on the show.
Rylan Clark spoke out about the derogatory comments on social media after the show’s debut episode on Sunday night.
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The ex-X-Factor contestant turned TV presenter took to his Instagram to share a photo of the singer, writing: “YES 2012 come throughhhhhhh.”
He added: “Also before people start going for appearance, Tulisa has been through a lot health wise the last few years so let’s not make [bad] jokes about her on twitter yeah”.
This comes after Tulisa recently told So Wrong It’s Right podcast host Olivia Atwood that she had put fillers in her face to “balance out the symmetry” after being diagnosed with Bell’s palsy in 2020.
Bell's palsy is a type of neurological disorder which causes paralysis or weakness that temporarily affects the ability to control the facial muscles.
The singer stated that she began getting the filler after the paralysis has left her face inflamed and bloated, resulting in her becoming a recluse.
"I had a massive burst of inflammation, and it went down but my whole face dropped," she said. "I couldn't move it, my face remained like that for seven months, I didn't go out, I just hid in the house.
"That was very stressful, and my face still wasn't right, so I started getting fillers to balance out the symmetry," she continued.
She also told Atwood, despite what was in the press, she hasn’t had “any surgery until recently, only fillers”.
She explained: “I would have like tingling sensations like little ants crawling in my face. I started seeing doctors all around the UK – ‘Something's wrong with me, what's wrong with my face’ – it was so scary. This went all the way up until this year it was horrific.
“I constantly felt like my cheek was on fire. I'd have good days and bad days and on some days, I'd take steroids, which would bring it down.
She characterised her journey to restore facial symmetry as being “a vicious cycle”.
Tulisa also mentioned on the podcast that she has received an ultrasound which spotted three “chronically infected cysts” in her cheek, which surgery removed some of.
She added that she was awaiting surgery to have the rest removed, and that the presence of the cysts was “self-occurring” and not due to the filler she had received.
The British singer first shot to fame as part of the hip-hop trio N-Dubz in the 2000s.
The Londoner later went solo and went on to become a judge on The X Factor in 2011 and 2012 when Rylan finished fourth as a contestant.
Her old band reformed for a tour in 2022, which was when her Bell’s palsy attacks began: “When I was doing that N-Dubz run it was at its worst, so you might see an interview, I look normal. And then you see another interview, it's like, what the hell is going on with my face?”
I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here kicked off in Australia on Sunday evening with hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, promising that all of the celebs would be "thrown in the deep end".
Other celebrities taking on the jungle in this year's series include GK Barry, Colleen Rooney and Danny Jones.
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