RYLAN has urged I’m A Celebrity viewers to leave Tulisa alone after some said they didn’t recognise the NDubz singer.
The popstar has faced questions over her appearance after a triumphant TV comeback.
Known for being a member of the trio, N-Dubz, Tulisa became a household name back in 2011 when she signed on to replace Cheryl on ITV show The X Factor in a multi-million pound deal.
But she has shunned TV shows for almost a decade.
Rylan also got his big break on The X Factor where Tulisa was a judge, and he spoke out for his pal.
He wrote on X: “Before people start going for appearance, Tulisa has been through a lot health wise the last few years so let’s not make shit jokes about her on twitter yeah x”
Tulisa was on a mission to revamp her fitness ahead of entering the I’m A Celeb jungle.
She suffered a decade-long health battle and was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy.
The singer, 36, previously revealed to fans on Instagram she had undergone a double hernia operation in July.
The brunette beauty told Olivia Attwood on her podcast So Wrong It’s Right: “I’ve no idea what they were caused by, they weren’t filler, they were just self-occurring, but I came out of the operation and instantly my face was less swollen.
“There’s some still there so I still have the inflammation but it’s way less. In the next two months [the doctor’s] going to go in to get those ones.”
Speaking about the N-Dubz reunion in 2022, she said: “I would have like tingling sensations like little ants crawling in my face.
“I started seeing doctors all around the UK – ‘Something’s wrong with me, what’s wrong with my face’ – it was so scary. This went all the way up until this year it was horrific.
“I constantly felt like my cheek was on fire. I’d have good days and bad days and on some days, I’d take steroids, which would bring it down.
“When I was doing that N-Dubz run it was at its worst, so you might see an interview, I look normal. And then you see another interview, it’s like, what the hell is going on with my face?
“And I’ve had all these health problems for years – sarcoidosis, immune disorders – and this explains all the symptoms that I was getting and could have been causing Bell’s palsy because in total there was, I think, six of them.
“They could have been growing over the years, actually triggering the Bell’s.”
