The story behind Tulisa’s female boss tattoo as she makes I’m A Celebrity comeback

Tulisa Contostavlos has instantly made waves successful the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle, implicit with her celebrated ‘female boss’ tattoo.

The singer, who is best-known for being a portion of hep hop trio N-Dubz and the youngest ever justice connected The X Factor, was crowned the archetypal person of campy connected the 2024 ITV bid with her teammate Alan Halsall.

The 36-year-old prima is portion of a stacked lineup for the caller bid alongside the likes of Coleen Rooney, McFly vocalist Danny Jones and information Oti Mabuse.

Before the caller play began, Tulisa’s fans were hoping she’d recreate her iconic airs from her X Factor days to amusement disconnected her limb tattoo.

And connected their archetypal nighttime successful the jungle, she did conscionable that successful the show’s opening credits.

So, what’s the communicative down the motto connected Tulisa’s close arm?

Tulisa’s pistillate brag tattoo and controversy

Tulisa’s tattoo made waves successful 2011 erstwhile she was accused of illegally promoting her perfume TFB connected The X Factor by striking a airs with her forearm connected display.

On Sunday’s I’m A Celebrity motorboat show, she rocked the aforesaid airs successful the opening credits, and fans were speedy to spot the epic throwback.

‘NAH TULISA DOING HER POSE LOL #imacelebrity,’ wrote an X user, portion different spectator added: ‘Obsessed with Tulisas iconic “female boss” airs #imacelebrity (sic)’

‘The gasp I fto retired seeing Tulisa bash her signature limb motion during the opening credits #ImACeleb,’ tweeted a 3rd fan, with idiosyncratic other saying: ‘tulisa bringing backmost the pistillate boss. lone the 2011 existent ones cognize #ImACeleb.’

After the archetypal contention 13 years ago, Tulisa insisted the Female Boss moniker had ‘always been’ her trademark and nickname.

‘The perfume’s not really called The Female Boss – it’s conscionable TFB,’ she told the Mirror astatine the time. ‘So idiosyncratic wouldn’t spell into a store and bargain my perfume conscionable due to the fact that they’d seen my tattoo.’

Tulisa Contostavlos is quitting fame

Ahead of being announced arsenic portion of the authoritative I’m A Celebrity line-up, the erstwhile X Factor justice agreed with Happy Place podcast big Fearne Cotton that the euphony manufacture is ‘wild’ and ‘ridiculous’.

‘I’m done astir of it. I’ll beryllium retired successful 2 years,’ she explained. ‘I’m going into property… I americium really going to physique immoderate themed rentals.

‘So I’m similar a ace phantasy geek, each things similar Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones.

‘And I’ve ever wanted to get into the spot game. But I was besides like, there’s immoderate parts of it that tin beryllium a small spot mundane.’

She went on: ‘So yeah, astatine the infinitesimal I’m looking for land, I privation it to each beryllium precise benignant of similar a quality reserve, you know, cabins successful a forest, Hagrid’s huts and Hobbit houses. So, yeah, that’s my program for 2024.’

Talking astir being an ‘introvert’ and not liking being successful the spotlight, she added: ‘The idiosyncratic I’ve become, I’m a nationalist fig that doesn’t truly similar being successful the nationalist eye.’

When did Tulisa Contostavlos articulation N-Dubz and The X Factor?

Tulisa roseate to fame with her relative Dappy and person Fazer successful N-Dubz, with the hip-hop trio winning 5 Mobo awards, a Brit Award nomination, and 14 apical 40 singles implicit the years.

Their archetypal album, Uncle B, was released successful 2008, though they’d released earlier hits and appeared connected the UK charts with Feva Las Vegas successful 2007, which peaked astatine fig 57.

They embarked connected their archetypal header circuit aft Uncle B, and went connected to nutrient immoderate of their astir celebrated hits including their 2nd azygous Playing With Fire and 2010 deed We Dance On.

The set performed their last gig unneurotic successful September 2011 – before the extremity of their decade-long hiatus in 2023 – with Tulisa past embarking connected her solo career, which besides saw her regenerate Cheryl Cole arsenic a justice for the eighth bid of The X Factor.

At the property of 23, she was and remains the youngest ever justice connected the panel, and mentored Little Mix done their win.

Her solo album, The Female Boss, which included her way Young, was released successful December 2012.

She besides co-wrote Britney Spears and will.i.am’s 2012 azygous Scream and Shout, which was intended for her debut album. After her vocals were heard connected the single, but she was not credited with co-writing it upon its release, stopping her from collecting royalties, Tulisa filed a suit against will.i.am and won successful 2018.

As good arsenic her euphony career, Tulisa has held acting roles successful British slasher Demons Never Die and Big Fat Gypsy Gangster.

Tulisa besides fronted BBC programme, Tulisa: My Mum and Me, successful 2010, which followed young radical successful Britain caring for a genitor with intelligence wellness problems, aft her ain experiences which included seeing her mum forcibly sectioned successful psychiatric attraction erstwhile she was 5 years old.

After being announced arsenic portion of the I’m A Celebrity line-up, Tulisa insisted her ITV stint isn’t ‘a vocation move’, and that she wants to amusement her ‘real self’.

She said: ‘My fig 1 ngo is to beryllium my existent 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.’

What cosmetic surgeries has Tulisa Contostavlos had?

Ahead of entering the jungle, Tulisa revealed a caller cosmetic procedure connected her Instagram story, showing the results of a articulator procedure, aft having her eyebrows tended to.

She wrote: ‘I tatted the lips to lucifer the brows, couldn’t assistance myself, They are swollen but they volition spell down & the colour volition code down.

‘@cosmetic_tattoo_clinic loving this & brows person held sooooo well.’

On the website for the cosmetic signifier that Tulisa tagged, they connection treatments including articulator liner tattoo, articulator blush and afloat articulator colour, which they authorities are ‘semi-permanent’.

During a caller podcast interview, the instrumentalist opened up astir being diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a information described by the NHS as resulting successful ‘temporary weakness oregon deficiency of question that usually affects 1 broadside of the face’.

Speaking on Olivia Attwood‘s podcast So Wrong It’s Right, she explained however she had her archetypal Bell’s palsy onslaught erstwhile she was 24 years old, and she had a ‘massive burst of inflammation’ connected her cheek, which she said was similar having an ‘abscess’.

She was fixed antibiotics by her doc and the swelling went down, but past her ‘whole look conscionable dropped’, she recalled.

Tulisa explained that her look remained successful that authorities for 7 months, and truthful she decided to person fillers to effort and ‘balance retired the symmetry’.

The vocalist said that this continued up until precise recently, and truthful she was inactive trying to header with her symptoms and having filler to equilibrium it retired during her 2022 N-Dubz reunion.

Then a doc carried retired an explorative process to analyse what was going on, discovering cysts nether her tegument that were recovered to beryllium an ‘anomaly’.

Just days ago, Tulisa besides spoke astir having a ‘fat transfer’ to assistance with bruising successful her face, aft years of steroid injections to assistance power the cysts.

According to The Mirror, she said connected her Instagram Story: ‘Hi guys, immoderate of you whitethorn cognize I precocious opened up successful an Olivia Attwood interview So Wrong It’s Right, talking astir my look and the experiences I’ve had with the chronic corruption that I was unaware of and Bells Palsy attacks.’

She continued: ‘I’ve conscionable had truthful galore radical successful my DMs reaching retired and asking maine astir my experiences and what’s going on, which has made maine truly blessed astir opening up due to the fact that it has fto a batch of different radical cognize that they’re not alone.

‘I had my archetypal cognition a fewer months back, that was earlier the Olivia Attwood interview, wherever they opened up the receptor and went successful present [pointing to her jaw] and they took astir 5 cysts that I had successful the little portion of the face. And past 3 weeks ago, I had my latest and last cognition wherever they removed the 5 past cysts.’

She went on: ‘[The surgeon] went successful nether the mouth, made an incision from present each the mode circular to present [pointing to her little cheek] but underneath, truthful determination is perfectly nary scaring. I virtually lone had the stitches retired astir a week ago, truthful my look is really inactive rather swollen.

‘I person noticed that wherever I person been having truthful galore steroid injections into this feature erstwhile it would stroke up due to the fact that of the inflammation.

‘As the swelling is going down, I americium near with a batch of indentation successful this cheek. I’ve covered it with makeup, it does marque maine truly paranoid.

‘I hatred it, nary 1 likes having dents successful their feature oregon discolouration oregon things incorrect with their face.’

Tulisa said she plans connected getting a abdominous transportation successful the future, but volition besides beryllium getting a attraction called porfhilo, which is an injectable hyaluronic acerb attraction that boosts skin’s hydration.

The prima besides antecedently spoke astir cruel trolling she’s received aft her diagnosis implicit her appearance, saying connected Loose Women: ‘There’s really been times erstwhile radical person criticised maine for the mode I look and my face, not knowing I’m really going done a Bell’s palsy attack.

‘I retrieve it was an ITV quality a portion agone and I saw an online remark like, ”Her look looks similar she’s had a stroke”, and that tin beryllium the effects of Bell’s palsy.’

She said she’s learned to turn a ‘tough skin’, but feared for different radical not capable to woody with the aforesaid online abuse.

‘It’s casual connected societal media to enactment a headdress on,’ she argued. ‘It’s hurting radical – and I’m not conscionable talking astir celebrities.’

Tulisa besides told Metro astir the value ‘owning up’ to immoderate cosmetic surgeries, saying she’s undergone tegument treatments similar collagen waves and muscle-lifting treatments.

She said: ‘So I deliberation radical are jumping to conclusions astir what I’ve done and what I haven’t, and I’m conscionable implicit it. I’m going to transportation connected doing immoderate makes maine happy. And I counsel anyone other retired determination to bash the aforesaid due to the fact that beingness is short, you lone unrecorded erstwhile and if you walk your beingness pleasing everyone else, it is going to beryllium a beauteous bittersweet beingness to live.’

Following her archetypal quality connected I’m A Celebrity, Rylan Clark was among those defending her from vicious trolling.

He took to X, writing: ‘Also earlier radical commencement going for appearance, Tulisa has been done a batch wellness omniscient the past fewer years truthful let’s not marque crap jokes astir her connected twitter yea x.’

Is Tulisa single?

Tulisa appears to beryllium single, and past twelvemonth spoke astir her two-year celibacy vow, saying she didn’t privation to person enactment again until she was successful a committed and monogamous relationship.

‘I don’t date, I court,’ she said. ‘So fundamentally you are courting due to the fact that you similar to physique friendships earlier you commencement dating, you conscionable don’t shag them and you get to cognize them.’

She added to the Zeze Millz Show: ‘I’ve got friendships that I’m building.’

What is Tulisa’s nett worth?

According to celebritynetworth.com, Tulisa’s nett worthy is thought to beryllium astir $4million (£3.1million).

I’m A Celebrity launches connected Sunday astatine 9pm connected ITV1.

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