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Heartbreaking truth behind I’m A Celeb star Tulisa’s facial procedures as she's voted off show

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Published 14:51 3 Dec 2024 GMT

Heartbreaking truth behind I’m A Celeb star Tulisa’s facial procedures as she's voted off show

The 36-year-old N-Dubz star is the third campmate to leave the jungle this year

Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle

During last night's episode (2 December) of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, Tulisa was named the third campmate to be sent home, joining Dean McCullough and Jane Moore.

During her post-exit interview with Ant and Dec, the 36-year-old N-Dubz star described her time in the jungle as 'tough' and called the whole experience a 'whirlwind'.

ITV viewers were seriously shocked to find out the news, given the fact the 'Female Boss' was a much-loved fan-favourite who gained lots of support following her candid admissions about her personal life and the heartbreaking truth behind her plastic surgery.

Before heading into the I'm A Celeb jungle, Tulisa opened up about the brutal blow to her health she suffered a few years back.

Speaking on Olivia Attwood's So Wrong It's Right podcast a few months back, Tulisa opened up about her first Bell's palsy attack that happened when she was just 24 years old.

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The 'Girls' singer, who was also a former judge on the X Factor, discussed the health condition that she was diagnosed with back in 2020, which the NHS describes as a 'temporary weakness or lack of movement that usually affects one side of the face'.

Symptoms include; not being able to move one side of your face, which usually happens over a few days, a drooping eyelid or corner of your mouth, drooling, dry mouth, loss of taste, and a dry or watering eye.

Tulisa was diagnosed with Bell's palsy back in 2020 (ITV)
Tulisa was diagnosed with Bell's palsy back in 2020 (ITV)

Tulisa shared: "I was sat at home, and I had this huge burst of inflammation on my cheek, as if, like, I had an abscess in there or something and I went straight to a doctor.

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"They gave me antibiotics, steroid injections - don't know what caused it - and then it went down to a certain extent, left with some mild swelling, and then my whole face just dropped."

She explained that her face 'remained like that for seven months' during which she 'didn't go out' and just 'hid in the house'.

She continued: "Then, as I was coming to the end of the seven months, my face is still not right. I still have the mild swelling. So what I would do is I would go and get fillers to try and balance out the symmetry."

Tulisa is the third campmate to leave the I'm A Celeb jungle (Instagram/@imacelebrity)
Tulisa is the third campmate to leave the I'm A Celeb jungle (Instagram/@imacelebrity)

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Describing it a 'vicious cycle', Tulisa said she then started seeing doctors all around the UK until she finally found one who decided to do an 'explorative op' on her which led to them finding 'three chronically infected cysts' in her face.

Olivia sympathetically added: "That's awful, though, that journey. You could have had that solved years ago, if someone had just actually took it seriously."

Tulisa also previously discussed what plastic surgery procedures she's had done on Loose Women back in 2020, where she insisted she hadn't gone wholly under the knife until more recently, despite speculation that she'd amended her looks in the years prior.

"I hadn't had any surgery until, confession time, recently," she began by telling viewers. "All the time before there was no surgery, it was only fillers."

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Find out more about Bell's palsy on the official NHS website here.

Featured Image Credit: ITV

Topics: Im A Celebrity, Celebrity, ITV, TV And Film, Reality TV, Tulisa, Health

Rhiannon Ingle
Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle is a Senior Journalist at Tyla, specialising in TV, film, travel, and culture. A graduate of the University of Manchester with a degree in English Literature, she honed her editorial skills as the Lifestyle Editor of The Mancunian, the UK’s largest student newspaper. With a keen eye for storytelling, Rhiannon brings fresh perspectives to her writing, blending critical insight with an engaging style. Her work captures the intersection of entertainment and real-world experiences.

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