Who is I'm a Celebrity's Tulisa?: Everything to know about her

Ok it has to be said, this is one of the best I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here line-ups the show has ever had. From TikTok legend GK Barry, to Strictly Come Dancing's Oti Mabuse, and of course the Wagatha Christie icon herself Coleen Rooney. And one person we're very excited to see at the famous camp? Tulisa Contostavlos.

The N-Dubz singer has been off our screens for a few years, but she's finally back and braving all the horrors of the jungle. Not only that, but she's already a camp leader after winning the first challenge alongside Alan Halsall.

Need a refresher on all things Tulisa? This is everything you need to know about her.

What is Tulisa's age?

Tulisa is 36 years old.

Where do you know Tulisa from?

Tulisa rose to fame as part of N-Dubz in the late 2000s. The group went onto release three albums, win four MOBO awards and performed at Glastonbury. The group ended up splitting up in 2011 citing "creative differences" as the reason for the breakup.

Shortly after the band's split, Tulisa went onto join The X Factor replacing Cheryl Cole as a judge and starring alongside Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, and Louis Walsh. In her first year as a judge she won the competition as a mentor to Little Mix.

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She left The X Factor after two seasons and released her debut solo album The Female Boss.

In 2022 N-Dubz reunited and released a new album and went on tour.

What has Tulisa said about going on I'm a Celebrity?

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Prior to heading into the jungle, Tulisa revealed she was looking forward to the exciting journey ahead and wants to give the public a chance to know the real her.

"I am like Frodo Baggins on an unexpected journey," she said. "I feel really adventurous this year and the place I am now in, I want to do things that take me out of my comfort zone. I have always said I wouldn’t do this show in the past, as there are things that have terrified me. But the person I am now, I want to throw caution to the wind.”

What is Bells' palsy, the health condition Tulisa has?

Back in 2020 Tulisa revealed she had been diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a condition which typically causes half of the face to become temporarily paralysed, which prevents you from being able to properly close your eye or smile.

Speaking on Loose Women about the diagnosis, Tulisa said: "I do suffer from Bell's palsy [...] it can cause facial paralysis, it can cause swelling. I think the first attack I had was after a serious horse-riding accident. I fractured my skull and it caused a lot of nerve damage.

"At any time, I have emergency steroids on me, and now luckily I know how to manage it, so the attacks don't last as long. There have actually been times when people have criticised me for the way I look and my face, not knowing I'm actually going through a Bell's palsy attack."

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Tulisa recently spoke out about the condition again while appearing on Olivia Attwood's podcast So Wrong, it's Right. She told Olivia she had filler in her face following her first Bell's palsy attack.

"My whole face just dropped. I couldn’t even move it. So, my face remained like that for seven months. I didn’t go out, I just hid. Coming to the end of the seven months, my face is still not right. I still have the mild swelling," she revealed

Due to this she then revealed she would get fillers in order to try and "balance out the symmetry".

"I would be like, ‘put some in that cheek to match the swelling on that cheek, put some here to lift this up’, yeah it was scary,” she went onto explain. “Then what happened was, because I had this low level swelling, I then dissolved all the filler and I would match the inflammation by putting filler in the other side.

“So you have this side is swollen, and this side is filler to match the swelling. This went all the way up until this year…It was at its worst.”