What has Tulisa been up to since NDubz and The X Factor? Singer enters I'm a celeb

ITV’s I’m a Celebrity...Get maine retired of here! is yet backmost connected our TV screens with an breathtaking line-up of celebs acceptable to instrumentality connected the jungle.

The world amusement premieres contiguous (November 17) astatine 9pm connected ITV with a 105-minute peculiar opening occurrence and the play volition proceed each the mode done to December 8.

Reflecting connected her upcoming jungle stint, Contostavlos maintained that her comeback isn’t a “career goal”.

“My fig 1 ngo is to beryllium my true, authentic self,” she said up of the time. “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.”

Contostavlos changeable to fame alongside her relative Dappy and person Fazer successful the 2000s, with N-Dubz landing 4 apical 10 singles and respective MOBO awards.

She went connected to articulation the X-Factor judging sheet successful 2011, becoming the show’s youngest justice astatine conscionable 23 years old. She besides mentored Little Mix connected their ascent to fame done the amusement and enjoyed a solo vocation of her own, with varying success.

However, consequent controversies surrounding a enactment portion ungraded and apprehension implicit cause allegations led to her taking a measurement backmost from the showbiz world. So, what has she been up to since?

Although Contostavlos has kept a comparatively debased illustration recently, she has been spotted astatine a fewer large events and motorboat parties, suggesting she didn’t chopped ties with the amusement satellite entirely.

The vocalist initially wanted to amusement radical who she truly was, truthful she worked connected respective documentaries, including Tulisa: The Price of Fame,  a movie that follows her ordeal aft being acceptable up successful a cause sting.

She has besides made respective TV appearances and adjacent immoderate impermanent appearances connected X-Factor successful consequent seasons.

In 2020, she appeared connected Loose Women, wherever she opened up astir suffering from Bell's Palsy and having to woody with an onslaught of online trolls.

Contostavlos besides made headlines erstwhile she was caught up successful a drink-driving clang that destroyed her £150,000 Ferrari.

In 2016, she was banned from driving for 15 months and charged £1,000 aft she crashed her car extracurricular Southgate Station portion being one-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit.

Since leaving X-Factor, Contostavlos has continued to merchandise euphony sporadically, though not each of her tracks person been successful.

In 2015, her azygous Living Without You was considered a flop, charting astatine lone fig 44.

She besides released a remake of Sweet Like Chocolate successful 2016 and Daddy successful 2019 but they didn’t truly marque waves successful the charts.

It wouldn’t beryllium until 2022 that Contostavlos agreed to reunite with N-Dubz.

One of the biggest moments successful Contostavlos’s vocation pursuing X-Factor whitethorn person been her high-profile suit against Will.i.am and Britney Spears.

The suit dragged retired for 5 years, with Contostavlos arguing that she co-wrote the opus Scream and Shout earlier producers took it successful a antithetic direction.

Even though Contostavlos’s vocals were inactive featured connected the track, she wasn’t credited with penning the opus astatine the clip and was incapable to summation immoderate royalties from the popular hit.

Will.i.am aboriginal admitted: “Tulisa wrote to that opus earlier I did – this is the truth. But the producers of the bushed … didn’t privation her to person it.”

Contostavlos yet won the suit successful 2018, and was added arsenic a writer connected the way and granted 10 per cent publishing rights.

In 2022, Contostavlos and her erstwhile bandmates confirmed they were reuniting 10 years aft going connected hiatus. Their UK tour, Back To The Future, sold out, making it 1 of the biggest euphony comebacks of that year.

The pursuing year, the vocalist said: “As it stands, we are back. Rather than a reunion, it’s decidedly a comeback, truthful it’s each N-Dubz, N-Dubz, N-Dubz for now.”

However, plans to merchandise caller euphony whitethorn person been enactment connected clasp arsenic Contostavlos heads to the jungle.

Contostavlos besides precocious revealed that she’s readying a vocation alteration successful the adjacent fewer years. Speaking to Fearne Cotton connected her podcast, the instrumentalist suggested she was acceptable to enactment euphony down her.

"The euphony manufacture is wild, it is ridiculous. I'm done astir of it. I'll beryllium retired successful 2 years,” she said.

Instead, she’s present looking for onshore to physique her ain themed properties.

She continued: "I'm going into property. I americium really going to physique immoderate themed rentals. So I'm like, 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.

"So alternatively of conscionable similar gathering houses, let's physique themed places that I tin rent out.

She continued: "So yeah, astatine the minute, I'm looking for land, I privation it to each beryllium precise benignant of similar a quality reserve, you know, cabins successful a forest, Hobbit houses. So, yeah, that's my program for 2024. I'm perfectly buzzing."