I’M a Celeb’s Tulisa and the Reverend Richard Coles, both share a fear in common, that will exempt them from certain Bushtucker Trails:
The contestants are both scared of heights, which means that TV bosses have ruled them out of any of the ITV show’s height- based challenges.
Before the end of Sunday night’s show, hosts Ant and Dec explained that Reverend Coles and Tulisa would be exempt from the upcoming trial, Jack and the Screamstalk, with no further explanation, before Dean McCullough was announced.
But then N-Dubz singer Tulisa could be overheard telling her campmates that there were medical grounds for her exemption.
She said: “I know it’s heights because that’s what I’m medically exempt from.”
Indeed, before he entered the jungle, the Reverend Richard Coles, 62, had revealed in an interview that he ‘froze on a stepladder.’
He told Mail online: “I actually froze with fear on a stepladder the other day on the second rung up. Anything up high, so anything which means walking from a horrible rickety tightrope or something that will be scary.”
Meanwhile, although viewers on social media were quick to point out that Tulisa didn’t seem worried about the helicopter ride to the camp, the 36-year-old has opened up about some personal health challenges.
The singer has suffered with a condition called Bells Palsy, which is a type of paralysis that temporarily affects the ability to control the face muscles.
Speaking on Olivia Attwood’s So Right It’s Wrong podcast earlier this year, she revealed that she experienfed her first attack when she was 24 and her face took several months to improve.
“When I was about 24, I had my first Bell’s Palsy attack. So I sat at home and I had a massive burst of inflammation and it went down but my whole face dropped – eye, everything.
“I couldn’t move it, my face remained like that for seven months, I didn’t go out, I just hid in the house.”
The former X Factor judge also confessed that she invested in cosmetic surgery to give some normality to her appearance.
She said, “As I was coming to the end of the seven months, my face is still not right… ‘I would go and get fillers to try and balance out the symmetry.”
But then Tulisa explained that the procedures got out of hand, as she noticed some low level swelling, as she said she had ‘tingling sensations like ants crawling in my face.”
Then Tulisa found that she was forced to take medication to help with the pain.
She said: I had good days and bad days and I’d also on some days take steroids which would bring it down, so you might see an interview and I look normal and then you see another interview and it’s like ‘What the hell is going on with her face’.’
The British pop star came to fame as part of the hip hop trio N-Dubz in the early noughties. She then had some solo hits with hits including Young and Sight of You, before becoming a judge on the X Factor from 2011 to 2012.
Then in 2022 she embarked on an N-Dubz reunion tour which coincided with her recent bout of health problems.
Speaking about her decision to appear on ITV’s I’m a Celeb she said that she hoped the viewers can get to the woman behind the headlines.
She said: “I am not the person that people perceive me to be.”
Bells Palsy is a temporary paralysis or lack of movement affecting one side of the face. So what are the symptoms?
Symptoms of Bell’s palsy include:
You may also find it difficult to close the eye on the weak side of your face.
Rarely, you may not be able to move both sides of your face.
