I'm A Celebrity viewers go wild as Tulisa sends secret message minutes into launch show

Tulisa Contostavlos has been retired of the spotlight successful caller years but the N-Dubz vocalist is backmost connected our screens erstwhile again arsenic she takes portion successful the caller bid of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

The Female Boss is good and genuinely backmost acknowledgment to Tulisa Contostavlos returning to our screens erstwhile again connected the caller bid of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

Fans of the N-Dubz singer, 36, each rushed to societal media to accidental the nonstop aforesaid happening wrong minutes of the motorboat amusement opening earlier this evening - branding the prima "an icon" arsenic she delivered a concealed connection to her loyal followers successful the opening credits.

Tulisa has been retired of the spotlight implicit caller years but was 1 of the most-talked astir stars successful the UK acknowledgment to her stint arsenic a justice connected The X Factor from 2011 to 2012. During her clip connected the present defunct ITV show, which she won with miss set Little Mix, the vocalist embraced her self-described presumption arsenic The Female Boss.

The star, who has the slogan tattooed crossed her close arm, would marque her expansive entranceway connected the unrecorded shows each week with a signature limb determination that showed disconnected ink - often giving viewers a cheeky wink too. Over a decennary on, Tulisa's fans are delighted to spot she inactive remembers her roots.

During the opening credits of this evening's archetypal connection of I'm A Celebrity, eagle-eyed viewers rapidly spotted Tulisa flexing her signature limb motion arsenic she posed for the camera. "Obsessed with Tulisa doing her The Female Boss salute successful the intro #ImACeleb," 1 quipped connected Twitter (X).

"Only existent ones cognize #ImACeleb," 1 declared arsenic they shared a drawback of Tulisa performing the determination during her X Factor days alongside the caller I'm A Celebrity mentation of the flex. "OMG Tulisa did the Female Boss salute #ImACeleb," different added, arsenic a 4th gushed: "Tulisa bringing backmost the pistillate boss. lone the 2011 existent ones cognize #ImACeleb."

Ahead of entering the jungle this evening, Tulisa said signing up for the amusement "isn’t a vocation determination for me", adding that she wants to beryllium her "rue, authentic self." The 36-year-old said that if she was fashionable with the show’s assemblage it would "mean I’m doing thing close successful life".

Speaking astir her reasons for appearing connected I’m A Celebrity, she said: "My fig 1 ngo is to beryllium my true, authentic self. If maine being my authentic aforesaid connects with radical successful a wide way, past it indispensable mean I’m doing thing close successful life. But I americium not going to spell looking for it. This isn’t a vocation determination for maine either. I volition ever spell backmost to N-Dubz and this is simply a one-off experience.”

The London-born vocalist compared her upcoming acquisition connected the amusement to Lord Of The Rings. She added: “I americium similar Frodo Baggins connected an unexpected journey. I consciousness truly adventurous this twelvemonth and the spot I americium present in, I privation to bash things that instrumentality maine retired of my comfortableness zone. I person ever said I wouldn’t bash this amusement successful the past, arsenic determination are things that person terrified me. But the idiosyncratic I americium now, I privation to propulsion caution to the wind."

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