ITV I’m A Celebrity’s Tulisa reveals real name and its special meaning

I'm A Celebrity and N-Dubz prima Tulisa Contostavlos revealed she hasn't been known by her existent sanction arsenic she opened up connected the meaning of 'Tulisa'

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here star, Tulisa Contostavlos has revealed fans person been calling her the incorrect sanction each this time.

The singer, 36, roseate to fame arsenic portion of N-Dubz and has confessed the sanction she goes by isn't really her existent name. Instead, the creator known arsenic Tulisa revealed her sanction is really Tula.

Speaking to Olivia Attwood, the erstwhile X Factor justice confessed she has been going by a antithetic sanction during her beingness successful the limelight. "No, it isn't. You're the archetypal idiosyncratic to bring that up ever. I emotion that. Fresh energy!," she said aft Olivia asked astir her existent name.

The erstwhile Love Island prima past asked if it is Tula and the vocalist said successful a Greek accent: "Tula. My grandma is besides called Tula, truthful I was named aft her. So 'Tulisa' means 'tiny Tula' successful Greek, due to the fact that I'm fractional Greek. Then if you pronounce Tulisa successful British, it's 'Tu-lisaa'." Olivia went connected to gag that British radical "butcher" the name, with Tulisa agreeing to her response. "Yeah, truthful that ended up being my nickname anyhow increasing up successful Greek."

Tulisa is presently trying to triumph the crown successful the I'm A Celeb jungle. Shortly earlier arriving Down Under for her stint successful I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! the prima opened up astir an agonising wellness conflict that wholly transformed her appearance. Hitting backmost astatine the trolls, TV presenter and pal of Tulisa, Rylan Clark, said connected Twitter/X: "Also, earlier radical commencement going for appearance, Tulisa has been done a batch health-wise the past fewer years, truthful let’s not marque s*** jokes astir her connected Twitter, yea x."

Speaking to Olivia connected her podcast, she spoke openly astir her struggles with Bell's Palsy. The information near her with swelling, and difficulties moving her face. She explained: "When I was astir 24, I had my archetypal Bell's Palsy attack. So I sat astatine home, and I had a monolithic burst of inflammation, and it went down, but my full look dropped – eye, everything. I couldn't determination it; my look remained similar that for 7 months; I didn't spell out; I conscionable hid successful the house."

As she pointed to her face, Tulisa went connected : "As I was coming to the extremity of the 7 months, my look was inactive not right… I would spell and get fillers to effort and equilibrium retired the symmetry. So I’d beryllium similar right, if you enactment immoderate successful that feature to lucifer the swelling connected that feature and past if you enactment immoderate present to assistance this up truthful my articulator isn’t down there. You tin ideate the vicious cycle." Tulisa has since had the filler removed, and claims she present conscionable has filler successful her lip.

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