Rylan issues heartbreaking plea to I'm A Celebrity viewers as he defends Tulisa from trolls

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 2024 made its hotly-anticipated debut connected ITV contiguous with Tulisa Contostavlos among the names entering the Australian jungle

TV presenter Rylan Clark is making definite his pal Tulisa Contostavlos isn't the unfortunate of immoderate online bullying during her clip connected I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

The N-Dubz vocalist made her debut connected the ITV bid this evening, joining the likes of Coleen Rooney, GK Barry, Jane Moore and McFly vocalist Danny Jones arsenic they entered the celebrated jungle and began their camping journey.

But portion galore viewers rejoiced astatine seeing Tulisa backmost connected their screens aft a fewer years away - with the prima bringing backmost her trademark Female Boss limb gesture - others shared cruel comments astir the 36-year-old's quality and debated wherefore she looks somewhat antithetic compared to however she did successful her aboriginal twenties.

Rylan wasn't having immoderate of it. Taking to Twitter, formally known arsenic X, the BBC Radio 2 presenter reminded societal media critics to deliberation earlier they walk judgement connected someone's appearance. He told his followers: "Also earlier radical commencement going for appearance, Tulisa has been done a batch wellness omniscient the past fewer years truthful let’s not marque s*** jokes astir her connected twitter yea x."

This isn't the archetypal clip Rylan has made it wide helium is backing Tulisa to beryllium crowned Queen of the Jungle. As the vocalist was officially unveiled arsenic portion of the 2024 I'm A Celebrity line-up, Tulisa shared a promotional drawback connected her Instagram leafage and told fans: "The quality is out! I'm disconnected to the jungle. Wish maine luck @itvxofficial @imacelebrity #ImACeleb."

The popular vocalist and erstwhile N-Dubz subordinate is champion known for guiding Little Mix to triumph connected The X Factor successful 2011, earlier stepping backmost from the amusement the pursuing year. Rylan, an X Factor hopeful backmost successful 2012 erstwhile Tulisa near the judging panel, was swift to backmost the caller jungle contestant, reposting Tulisa's announcement to his ain Instagram pursuing and wishing her "Good luck xxx."

"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," Tulisa claimed earlier heading Down Under.

The London-born vocalist likened her upcoming stint connected the amusement to an epic adventure, saying: "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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