I’m a Celebrity’s Tulisa reveals she’s demisexual and has been celibate for three years

Demisexuality means a person does not experience primary sexual attraction until an emotional bond is formed.

Tulisa Contostavlos - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
Tulisa Contostavlos has said she is demisexual. (ITV)

I'm a Celebrity's Tulisa Contostavlos revealed she is demisexual, meaning she does not experience primary sexual attraction until she has developed an emotional bond with the person.

It was the third day in camp and the celebrities have begun sharing details about their romance lives — Alan Halsall spoke about his ex-wife Lucy-Jo Hudson, GK Barry spoke about coming out to her parents and Coleen Rooney reflected on the early days of her marriage to Wayne.

Contostavlos told her fellow campers: "I feel like I’m demisexual, I need to have a really close emotional bond with someone." She added: "I need actual depth."

The N-Dubz singer shared she has been celibate for three years. "I’m a slow, slow burner, I’ve been celibate for over three years," she said.

"I’m not an overly sexualised person. For me, it’s all about the connection and the emotions that I feel with someone and then wanting to express them in that way."

Alan Halsall speaks about split from his ex-wife Lucy Jo-Hudson. (ITV/Shutterstock)
Alan Halsall speaks about split from his ex-wife Lucy Jo-Hudson. (ITV/Shutterstock)

As they were talking dating, Alan Halsall discussed his ex wife and former Corrie co-star Lucy-Jo Hudson and dating apps.

Halsall — who plays Tyrone in Coronation Street — admitted he has never done dating apps. The actor had been married to former Corrie star Hudson and they share their 11-year-old daughter Sienna-Rae.

He told Dean McCullough and Tulisa: "Lucy left Corrie in about 2005, then we got married in 2009. We then split up after Sienna was born. I love just being dad."

He added: "I’ve never done dating apps, I don’t even know what I’d do!"

The Corrie stars split in 2018 after nearly nine years of marriage.

Alan Halsall and Lucy-Jo Hudson have split. (Getty)
Alan Halsall and Lucy-Jo Hudson have split. (Getty)

Also, GK Barry put her heart on the line talking about her romance with footballer Ella Rutherford for the first time in the jungle.

She told the camp: "It was by accident I found Ella, through a mutual friend and then I really liked her the first day I met her but I’d never told my parents."

I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here's Dean doing the trial. (Instagram)
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here's Dean doing the trial. (Instagram)

One of the other biggest talking points from the show was Dean McCullough shouting "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here" during the trial after only getting two stars.

Ant and Dec gave him the questions they would have asked him in the trial The Sinister Sarcophagus — and he would have got them right, meaning he would have got more meals for camp.

He wailed as he undertook the Bushtucker trial in Tuesday's episode — and unsurprisingly he is now doing the next Bushtucker trial Drown in the Dumps with GK Barry.

Initially McCullough won viewers over when he called Coleen Rooney by her nickname "Wagatha Christie" on their first meeting but he was voted to do the trial after irritating some viewers.

Among the complaints of course was Rooney's rival Rebekah Vardy who blasted McCullough as "irritating" and "tiresome" in her latest newspaper column for The Sun. She doesn't like how he's been — in her words — "cosying up to Coleen".

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    WON

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    LOST

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  • Tulisa has been celibate for three years

    Tulisa Contostavlos - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
    Tulisa Contostavlos - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)

    Tulisa tells her I'm a Celebrity campmates that she has been celibate.

    Alan, Dean and Tulisa are opening up about their relationships after the Corrie actor says he's been married before.

    Alan spoke about his split from his ex wife Lucy Jo Hudson. He says: "Lucy left Corrie in about 2005, then we got married in 2009. We then split up after Sienna was born. I love just being dad."

    He adds: "I’ve never done dating apps, I don’t even know what I’d do!"

    Tulisa shares she doesn't date much and has in fact been celibate for three years. She says: "I’m a slow, slow burner, I’ve been celibate for over three years."

    She adds: "I don't feel like for me there is any feeling to it. I'm not an overly sexualised person. It's about the connection and feeling. Wanting to express my feelings for them."

    Tulisa confesses she feels "physically sick" at the idea of having sex with a stranger.

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    She says she had "not long been going with him". She adds: "I go to this party later on, and he’s going to everybody like this [mocks showing her arm]. He’d got my name tattooed on him! At 17!"

    She adds of their early days: "I was still at school when he was playing for Everton. I used to walk out and all the girls were going, ‘Whose is that car there?’ And he was in a Bentley and something else and there’s Wayne in the passenger seat with his arm out and one of the players like Thomas Gravesen."

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    She adds: I’d mentioned, ‘Oh I’m just going to see my friend Ella’ or ‘I’m staying round Ella’s’ so they’d heard her name.”

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    GK Barry - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
    GK Barry - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)

    GK Barry admits she can't tear herself away from the comments.

    Fellow Loose Women star Jane Moore is quick to question her on why she chooses to read what strangers write about her online.

    She says: "Would you go into a crowded bar and go up to someone you don’t know and say, ‘Excuse me, what do you think of me?’"

    GK Barry says: “No, never.”

    Jane replies: "So then why would you do it online?"

    However, in the Bush Telegraph, GK Barry admits it's not that easy. She says: "I envy Jane back in the day... You'd have to phone up to make a complaint. Take me back to Jane's day. I miss it. I wasn't born!"

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    Water — Barry and Oti

  • Who is GK Barry?

    GK Barry - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
    GK Barry - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)

    Only 25 years old, GK Barry has built a career in the spotlight after rocketing to fame on TikTok by documenting her daily life as a student at Nottingham Trent University.

    The star has branched out from social media as she also appears on ITV daytime chat show Loose Women as a guest panellist since this summer in August, and now looks to be adding reality television to her showbiz CV.

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    The influencer is in a relationship with England footballer Ella Rutherford and she told the Loose Women panel that they moved in after the first date.

    She's perhaps best known for her Saving Grace podcast that is billed as a "rollercoaster of emotions" and her own "wild tales of university escapades to laugh-out-loud moments". As well as talking about her own life, she interviews celebrity guests including Alan Carr who made a recent appearance.

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  • How Rebekah Vardy will make money from Coleen Rooney's I’m A Celeb stint

    Rebekah Vardy is going to make money from Coleen Rooney's I'm a Celeb stint. (Getty)
    Rebekah Vardy is going to make money from Coleen Rooney's I'm a Celeb stint. (Getty)

    Rebekah Vardy looks set to cash in from her rival Coleen Rooney's I'm A Celebrity stint thanks to a newspaper column and trademarking the term 'Wagatha Christie'.

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    Ahead of the launch show, Vardy was named as The Sun's I'm A Celebrity columnist. It's not known how much she will be paid for her new position but we know she will definitely be talking all about her rival and how she wants to see her struggle in the jungle.

    In addition, ITV bosses could have to pay Vardy for Rooney's stint in the jungle because she has the phrase "Wagatha Christie" trademarked.

    Read more here.

  • When is I'm a Celebrity on?

    It is back every night at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITVX.

    Its spin off show I’m a Celebrity…Unpacked airs live on ITV2 every night directly after the ITV1 show.

    You can also stream it anytime on ITVX or catch the ITV1 daytime repeat which airs the following day.

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    He said: "I've tried to talk about it... Those horrible weeks in the hospital, just watching her. It was shocking." His daughter had leukaemia at the age of 11 but she had recovered.

    Catch up on what you missed here.

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    Otherwise the I'm a Celeb show has been filmed in the same location in Murwillumbah since the second series broadcast in 2003.

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  • Dean McCullough complains 'this is hell' in I'm a Celeb trial teaser

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    While trapped in a sarcophagus shaped box, the radio star must answer the questions correctly to release the stars. Sound easy? There's a hair-raising twist as insects are poured all over him.

    He says: "Jesus boys. What on earth is that? Sounds like Coco Pops. Oh my god it sounds like Coco Pops."

    Then he questions: "What on earth is that? Oh my god what is that? Eugh, what is that?"

    Ant and Dec tell him he's been covered in mealworms. "Oh my god, no!" He complains. "No, this is hell."

    Ant asks him: "Complete this title of this 1980s pop hit by the Bangles. Walk like an..?"

    Dean gives his response correctly three times: "Egyptian."

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! airs every night at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITVX.

I’m A Celebrity…Unpacked airs live on ITV2 every night directly after the ITV1 show. You can also stream it anytime on ITVX or catch the ITV1 daytime repeat which airs the following day.