I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! viewers think they have worked out how Tulisa is ‘wearing’ make-up despite the show banning it.

The star has very much been proving herself on tour screens, as fans praise her for being the real ‘female boss’ – especially when she recreated the iconic The X Factor pose with her tattoo.

And, as she explained to her celebrity campmates what N-Dubz stands for, and fans not getting over her age, there’s been concerns risen that Tulisa has sneaked in some contraband to camp.

It’s pretty well-known that I’m A Celeb bans the likes of make-up in camp – as well as food items, and even spices.

But viewers took to X to say: “Ummmmm… is Tulisa wearing make-up?”

Others also noted that they thought Jane Moore was also wearing some beauty products, as they continued to question: “Why isn’t Tulisa and Jane’s make-up coming off?”

Another added: “Sorry, but how have Tulisa & Jane still got make-up on?”

Tulisa is currently the camp leader. (ITV)

One even went as far to hit out: “How has Tulisa got a full face of make-up and fake eye lashes everyday in the jungle? Makes the show look even more fake guys! All the other girls are make-up-free.”

But as some viewers continued to hit out at the women’s appearances, they might have missed the fact that they still could be going make-up free thanks to permanent make-up treatments.

And plenty of people did point this out, as the cosmetic technique means the celebrities could have had ‘make-up’ done in advance, before entering the jungle.

Permanent make-up treatments uses tattoo to create designs that resemble make-up like eye-liner, brows, and other permanent enhancing colours to the face, lips, and eyelids.

Tulisa may have had treatments done. (ITV)

“She just has individual eyelashes on and her brows are tattooed I think.. she has nothing else on her face as far as I can see?” pointed out a fan.

Rylan previously issued a plea for viewers to be kind as he hit back at criticism of Tulisa’s appearance.

Supporting the star, he wrote: “Also before people start going for appearance, Tulisa has been through a lot health wise the last few years so let’s not make s**t jokes about her on twitter yeah x.”

And users responded to say: “Hope she sees how much she is loved after this series!!!”

Others said she ‘looks beautiful’.

Another also put: “I live for the day when women can do stuff on or off the telly and no one judges them on their appearance (or anything else for that matter) unless it’s to give positivity and lift them up.”

It’s only been one episode but I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is truly back with plenty of us already eagerly awaiting tonight’s (18 November) fix.

So, in the meantime we’ve been fixating on bits of trivia from Rebekah Vardy making a dig at the detective icon Coleen Rooney to why the stars no longer have phone numbers on their backs.

And, of course, there’s the reasoning behind Tulisa’s tattoo as we celebrated her bringing back that pose last night. But that’s not the only thing the N-Dubz singer has us chatting about as many I’m A Celeb viewers were left stunned after learning how old the star really is.

I’m A Celeb marks her TV comeback. (ITV)

As well as releasing bangers with the group and tunes like ‘Young’ as a soloist, Tulisa is probably best-known for her time spent as a judge on The X Factor from 2011 to 2012.

But what you probably don’t realise is just how young she was back then.

Recently appearing on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong It’s Right podcast, Tulisa explained how she was just 22-years-old when she landed a spot on the judging panel.

“I was the youngest judge ever at the time,” she said.

Looking back, she describes the time as a ‘whirlwind’ and just ‘bizarre’.

“I manifested it – I looked at that job and I thought, ‘I’m going to have that job, that job is mine,’” the singer added.

Tulisa revealed she told Simon Cowell that if he didn’t hire her for the show, it would be ‘the biggest mistake he’d ever make in his life’.

“But I knew he was going to like that energy,” she added. “He hired me on the spot.”

Yep, those years as a kid watching Tulisa judging on The X Factor, thinking she’s some fully grown adult, she was just a young 20 something old.

Tulisa was just 22 when she landed her judging job. (ITV)

So, fast forward to her making her TV comeback on I’m A Celeb now and she’s at the age of 36 – younger than you thought, right?

Celebrating her 35^th birthday last year, she posted a snap of her eating cake to Instagram as fans praised: “You don’t look a day over 21.”

As others were stunned: “No way are you 35!”

And as she graced our screens last night, fans continued the praise: “Yes let’s not forget that Tulisa was an X Factor judge for Little Mix at age 23.. Dean is right, she is really is full of wisdom.”

Another put: “People forget how iconic Tulisa is, she was a judge on the X Factor at age 23! Not only that, she was the mentor for Little Mix and Ella Henderson.”

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Here are all the items which contestants on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here could get in trouble for bringing into camp.

Every year it seems like at least one of the celebrities heading into the jungle finds themselves on the receiving end of the producers’ wrath for bringing ‘contraband’ in.

So what items aren’t the campmates allowed?

The I’m A Celebrity 2024 line-up (ITV)

Make-up and beauty products

Long-term fans of the series will be well aware that contestants aren’t allowed to bring cosmetics into the jungle with them.

The one exemption to this rule was 2017 Queen of the Jungle Georgia Toffolo, who was allowed to bring foundation with her in order to cover up severe acne.

“When producers told me it was banned I broke down in tears and said, ‘I can’t do this,” she told The Sun in an interview.

“I’ve been on strong tablets for six months trying to get rid of [the spots]. So show bosses agreed that, because it was a medical problem, I was allowed to put foundation on once a day in the morning.”

Contestants being banned from bringing make-up into camp is a topic which seems to come up every year when eagle-eyed viewers notice that certain celebrities don’t appear to be as bare-faced as their other co-stars.

Campmates such as Tulisa will often get semi-permanent make-up tattooed on (ITV)

N-Dubz star Tulisa, Loose Women’s Jane Moore, and Coleen Rooney are the latest crop of celebs to find themselves embroiled in the ongoing make-up saga, with several viewers sharing their confusion over the super defined eyebrows and elongated eyelashes.

“Why isn’t Tulisa and Jane’s make-up coming off?” one person questioned on X, while a second added: “Wait why is Jane also wearing makeup… have they changed the rules this year?”

The answer to this age-old question is relatively simple, several cast members will get semi-permanent make-up treatments before entering the jungle.

Food items

One of the main parts of jungle life is forcing the celebrities to head back to basics, which means no spicing up their rice and beans rations.

The repercussions of breaking this rule was seen during I’m A Celebrity… South Africa when contestants Gillian McKeith, Myleene Klass and Paul Burrell were rumbled by producers after brining in spices, mints, tea bags and coffee.

Recreational items

This one is more obvious than the others, but celebs are not allowed to bring in things to entertain themselves with while in the jungle, as it defeats the purpose of the show.

“So you wouldn’t have anything that could be distracting, part of this game is making sure that you are creating reality and having a chat with other people and doing stuff and dealing with the boredom,” executive producer Olly Nash previously explained.

Anything else?

Sentimental objects and anything considered ‘luxury items’ by producers are also prohibited, with celebrities instead getting the chance to win home comforts during tasks.

There are also strict penalties for breaking the rules, with previous contestant Joel Dommett confirming the campmates face punishment for helping out with jobs which aren’t their chores.

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Not only was last night (17 November) the return of celebs roughing it in the jungle, but it was also the return of one star to TV.

Yep, in the mix of the line-up for this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is N-Dubz singer Tulisa.

Over the years, the star has taken a break from working in television, and a big reason for that was because of a secret health battle she has been dealing with for 12 years.

And as this marks the first time many viewers have seen her for a while, she previously revealed the heartbreaking reason behind any cosmetic facial surgery.

I’m A Celeb marks her TV comeback. (ITV)

While appearing on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong It’s Right podcast, Tulisa explained she hadn’t gone under the knife until recently – despite any speculation.

The 36-year-old said: “I hadn’t had any surgery until, confession time, recently.

“All the time before there was no surgery, it was only fillers.”

And when it came to explaining the reasoning behind the injectables, the former X Factor judge revealed a health diagnosis which had left her face both swollen and inflamed.

Tulisa explained that at the age of 24 (she was just 22 when she first started judging the singing contest), she had her first Bell’s palsy attack before getting diagnosed in 2020.

The NHS describe Bell’s palsy as a ‘temporary weakness or lack of movement that usually affects one side of the face’.

“I had a massive burst of inflammation and it went down but my whole face dropped,” she said. “I couldn’t move it, my face remained like that for seven months, I didn’t go out, I just hid in the house.”

Tulisa withdrew from the spotlight. (Ricky Vigil M / Justin E Palmer/GC Images)

The singer added: “That was very stressful and my face still wasn’t right so I started getting fillers to balance out the symmetry.”

In the years after her diagnosis, things seemed to calm down, but a flare up in 2022 led to her having her facial filled dissolved and re-injected in other areas to balance out the swelling.

Tulisa said this was a ‘vicious cycle’ of trying to fix her face.

“I had good days and bad days and I’d sometimes take steroids to bring it down,” the star reflected.

“In some interviews I looked fine, in others you’d ask, ‘What the hell is going on with her face?'”

During last night’s episode, Tulisa’s pal Rylan released a statement supporting her: “Also before people start going for appearance, Tulisa has been through a lot health wise the last few years so let’s not make sh*t jokes about her on twitter yeah x.”

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