Dressed in a pink vest with her hair in a bun, Tulisa Contostavlos looked distraught as she told her fans about her torment since leaving the I’m A Celeb jungle.
In an Instagram video, which she recorded in her £1,000-a-night hotel room at the JW Marriott on Australia’s Gold Coast, the usually glamorous singer looked a shadow of her former self as she described the aftermath of her shocking exit from Monday night’s reality show.
Since then, I’m told, she’s been distraught, to the point that she didn’t appear on the spin-off show Unpacked on Tuesday night with everyone else evicted. She has also not been seen at the resort, sparking speculation that she had boarded a plane back to Britain.
Tulisa also addressed the reasons behind her deletion of social media posts that had been posted while she was in the jungle.
“I’m going to archive all my jungle-related stuff and when the time is right and I’ve had a little time to process, I’ll make my own with the best parts that I really like.” ‘ she said.
“Remember, I haven’t been doing my Instagram; the way everything and all the random stuff is posted is not the way I would do my Insta.”
Singer Tulisa Contostavlos speaks out on Instagram after being eliminated from the reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! She said: ‘I’m going to archive all my stuff that has to do with jungle and, when the time is right and I’ve had a bit of time to process, I’ll do my thing with all my best bits that I really like.’
While her comments could explain why she wanted to delete the posts, the Mail can reveal that what Tulisa kept secret from her 736,000 followers was a huge fight she had with her best friend, singer Michelle McKenna, who had been put on the spot. He uploaded his Instagram account while he was on I’m A Celeb.
Sources close to the two women, who have been friends since they were teenagers, say they were yelling at each other after Tulisa made it clear she was unhappy with the “kind of content” Michelle and her boyfriend were sharing. , Daniel Johnson.
The post that particularly upset Tulisa, 36, was a video in which Michelle and Daniel joked that the singer was bringing dinner when she left the jungle, I’m told. A friend said she felt it was “inappropriate.”
“They were in Australia only because of Tulisa,” the source explained. ‘It felt like they were enjoying the situation and taking liberties with their kindness.
‘Michelle and Daniel were there, on a trip funded by ITV and only by Tulisa. They were there because of her and she trusted them with her social networks.
“When she came out of the jungle and saw what they had put there, she got upset and caused a big fight. You can’t help but think that seeing her friends living like this while she was struggling in the jungle must have really upset her.
“They were in a five-star hotel, with most of the expenses paid, so it all feels a little bad for Tulisa,” they added. ‘She is very upset. She was distraught to see what had been posted and wanted to get rid of it as quickly as possible.
Just hours earlier, Michelle had met Tulisa on her way down from the famous I’m A Celeb Bridge when she became the third campmate to be evicted. They traveled together back to the Marriott, but when Tulisa got out of the darkened minivan, she walked into the hotel alone, looking like thunder.
Dressed in jungle gear, the 36-year-old smiles as she recalls her adventure with presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
Once inside, she was seen jumping into Daniel’s arms and he spun her around. The plan was for the trio to spend the next five days together on the Gold Coast until Sunday’s final to take advantage of Tulisa’s time in the jungle. Then they would return home next week.
But rumors soon circulated at the hotel, where Coleen Rooney’s parents and her two youngest children are staying, as well as evictees Jane Moore, Dean McCullough and Melvin Odoom, that Tulisa was already on her way home.
ITV declined to comment on her whereabouts but insisted there were no issues between the channel and Tulisa. According to sources, she had “committed a disappearing act.”
“Tulisa literally disappeared,” a source said. ‘Celebrities have been socializing, laughing and making the most of their time in Oz, but she was gone. What is said is that he went home and wanted nothing more to do with the program.
Tulisa and Michelle, an urban dance artist, have been best friends since the N-Dubz singer moved to Manchester two years ago in search of a “better quality of life”.
The star bought a newly built mansion in Congleton, Cheshire, to be closer to her best friends. They helped her decorate her house, which has a games and cinema room, an office, a home gym and a jacuzzi in the garden.
Michelle, who is also a former 90s pop star with the band Platnum, flew in to support Tulisa ten days ago, and Daniel arrived just after his girlfriend.
While in Australia, Michelle left Tulisa’s fans in no doubt about how close they were when she appeared on ITV’s Lorraine show. He talked about Tulisa’s appearance in the jungle and also shared secrets about her Bell’s palsy, a facial condition that had ruined the star’s life.
Michelle McKenna hugs Tulisa as she walks across the famous I’m A Celeb Bridge after becoming the third campmate to be evicted. They traveled together to the Marriott, but when Tulisa exited the darkened minivan, she entered the hotel alone.
Michelle said: ‘She has been suffering a lot. He has had Bell’s palsy and has also had to undergo operations to remove cysts. His entire face was drooping.
When asked what he would say to the public, he added: “Be nice, keep your mouth shut.”
The two women were so close that before moving on to I’m A Celeb, Tulisa told the Mail: “I have my best friend, Michelle, and her partner, Daniel, who is like a brother to me, and then maybe a couple more people. people. They have a wonderful vacation and I suffer and cover myself with crazy things.
Those who know them say they are ‘immensely close’ and Tulisa even spent Christmas with them last year, and they all dressed up in matching pajamas with Michelle’s son.
For Tulisa, the fallout will be a sad end to her time on I’m A Celeb, which was designed to be her grand return to the spotlight 11 years after her career was ruined when she was the victim of an elaborate setup by the now The disgraced ‘fake sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood, a tabloid journalist specializing in gaining the trust of celebrities by posing as a rich Arab.
After offering Tulisa a £3.5million role in a Bollywood film, he took the singer to Los Angeles and Las Vegas and introduced her to his supposed co-stars in the penthouse of a five-star hotel. He spent weeks talking to her about the big Bollywood names who would potentially appear alongside her.
They spent hours discussing the plot and told Tulisa that she would be filming in various locations, including India, America and Africa. She was later arrested for allegedly helping supply cocaine to Mahmood and stood trial a year later.
However, during the hearing it was discovered that he had altered evidence and the trial collapsed, completely exonerating Tulisa. But his world had already been shattered and he lost everything.
“I’m a Celebrity was her way back,” said a source close to Tulisa. ‘It was all supposed to be a very happy moment, it was supposed to be the beginning of something so wonderful and new for her. He’s had the worst decade, lost everything and had been rebuilding.
“Hopefully he can remember the good times he had in the jungle once the dust has settled.”
- Additional information from Dolly Busby in Australia.