From Love Islanders to Towie icons, surprising celebs who went YEARS without sex & why it can turbocharge your love life

SHE was erstwhile voted the World’s Sexiest Woman, but Tulisa is taking a interruption from the bedroom.

The N-Dubz vocalist made the astonishing revelation that she's been celibate for 3 years connected past night’s I’m A Celebrity.

Tulisa besides told her campmates Dean McCullough and Alan Halsall that she identifies arsenic “demisexual” - which is erstwhile a idiosyncratic lone begins to find idiosyncratic sexually charismatic aft forming a beardown affectional enslaved with them.

And the erstwhile X Factor justice adjacent admitted the thought of sleeping with idiosyncratic makes her consciousness "physically sick”.

She said: “I request existent depth. I’m a slow, dilatory burner, I’ve been celibate for implicit 3 years.

"I’m not an overly sexualised person.

"For me, it’s each astir the transportation and the emotions that I consciousness with idiosyncratic and past wanting to explicit them successful that way.”

But Tulisa - who topped FHM's sexiest pistillate database successful 2012 - isn’t the lone astonishing celeb to person gone years without sex, arsenic we reveal…

Chantelle Houghton

Chantelle Houghton has had a drawstring of high-profile relationships, including with Preston from Ordinary Boys - who she was joined to, for a year, aft gathering connected Celebrity Big Brother.

But successful March, she revealed she’d been celibate for 2 years, having decided she’d alternatively beryllium unsocial than beryllium with the incorrect man.

The mum-of-one told The Sun: “It's been astir 2 years present and without enactment I consciousness empowered, autarkic and free.

“Chivalry appears to beryllium dormant and I'd overmuch alternatively spell done the remainder of my beingness azygous than settee for idiosyncratic who makes maine miserable.

“Since my matrimony to Preston ended I've suffered everything from ghosting to gaslighting and I tin spot a narcissist a mile off.”

Lauren Goodger

In 2016, Lauren Goodger began dating jailbird Joey Morrison, portion helium was serving clip successful prison for a drawstring of violent, drugs-related charges.

At the time, the erstwhile TOWIE prima confessed they were yet to beryllium intimate and she was redeeming herself for him.

In a candid interrogation with Closer Magazine, she said: “Joey’s going to beryllium knackered erstwhile we’re yet unsocial due to the fact that we’ll beryllium precise busy.

“There’s tons to do. I’ve been decently celibate for a twelvemonth but he’s worthy the wait.”

The mates broke up successful July 2017, following a furious enactment wrong HMP Highpoint South.

But Lauren continued with her celibacy travel - and inactive hadn’t had enactment by 2018.

She said: “I'm a precise intersexual person, but I don't privation to beryllium intimate with idiosyncratic unless I'm successful a relationship. I privation to settee down and person the fairytale.”

Linda Robson 

Loose Women panellist Linda Robson shocked viewers past year, erstwhile she confessed she was “celibate” - particularly arsenic she’d been joined to Mark Dunford for 33 years astatine the time.

"Can I conscionable accidental I've been celibate for 2 years?" she said. "I can't beryllium a**** with each that [romance stuff]. 

“I'm conscionable blessed going retired with my mates and my children and my grandchildren.”

Unsurprisingly, Linda and Mark divided up conscionable a fewer months later, but she saw nary request to unreserved into further romances.

After their break-up, she told OK! "I don't request a man. I've got my friends and my family. 

“I'm not funny successful dating, I'm excessively aged now. I can't beryllium bothered with each that 'jiggy jiggy'."

Kendra Wilkinson

She roseate to fame connected Girls of the Playboy Mansion, arsenic 1 of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends.

But earlier this year, Kendra Wilkinson revealed she had been celibate since divorcing her hubby Hank Baskett successful 2018.

In January, the erstwhile I'm A Celebrity prima told People: “It's been truthful agelong since I've had enactment — it's been truthful agelong that I've had any.

“Because I shamed myself connected my sexuality too. Everyone sees maine arsenic a enactment icon, truthful I shamed myself. I shamed myself, and I stayed distant from thing sex. 

“I astir became celibate."

Brad McClelland

Before heading into the Love Island villa successful 2021, Brad McLelland said radical spot him arsenic a "top shagger" but he's "far from it."

In fact, he'd been azygous for 2 years, and not had enactment successful that clip due to the fact that helium was "living with his nan".

He said: "I unrecorded with my nana and her small dog, I decidedly wouldn't beryllium going to my nana for immoderate dating advice."

Brad's adust spell is decidedly up now, arsenic he's been dating Harry Maguire's sister Daisy Maguire since September 2022.

Yewande Biala

Love Islanders are often seen arsenic radical who play the field, but Brad isn't the lone erstwhile prima who abstained for a while.

In the 2019 series, viewers worked retired that Yewande Biala hadn't had enactment successful 4 years.

In a villa game, she admitted to the information that she'd "only slept with 1 person".

Then, aboriginal successful the series, connected a day with Danny Williams, she told him she'd been azygous for 4 years, saying it was portion by prime and portion due to the fact that she hadn't recovered the close idiosyncratic yet.

Ferne McCann

Ferne McCann didn't person enactment for 2 years aft she divided from her jailbird ex Arthur Collins successful 2017.

The erstwhile TOWIE prima made the confession successful an occurrence of First Time Mum, portion connected a location viewing with her and Arthur's then-15-month-old girl Sunday successful tow.

She told Liam 'Gatsby' Blackwell: "It's coming up to 2 years, I'm fundamentally a born-again virgin. 

"I request to cleanable distant the aged cobwebs!"

She surely managed that, arsenic Ferne and her now-fiance Lorri Haines welcomed a girl Finty successful July 2023.

Gemma Collins

She's been connected and disconnected with Rami Hawash since each the mode backmost successful 2011 - and yet got engaged to him successful February this year.

But successful April 2012, Gemma Collins begged her then-boyfriend Charlie King for enactment connected TOWIE - telling him she'd not had it successful a year.

Charlie has since travel retired arsenic cheery but, astatine the time, told Gemma helium wasn't acceptable for enactment with her.

Gemma argued: "You cognize what everyone successful Essex is like, they enactment it about!"

He replied: "I’m not similar everyone else. I’m going to instrumentality to my roots with that, let’s conscionable person immoderate fun, you request to beryllium diligent with me."

Gemma deed back: "I’ll beryllium diligent with you but its random behaviour, it’s bizarre to me, a antheral wants to interaction you, consciousness you, slap your a**e.

"I’ve not had enactment for a full year."