I'm A Celeb's Tulisa says jungle 'isn't a career move' as she reveals real reason for doing ITV show

Singer has revealed why she has signed up to this year's and admitted it isn't a career move for her.

The N-Dubz singer and former judge has remained mostly out of the spotlight in recent years. She was spotted arriving in on Sunday, with her ahead of the launch. Tulisa hasn't released music on her own since 2019 and her first, and currently only, solo album came out back in 2012.

However, she reunited with N-Dubz bandmates and back in 2022 following an 11-year hiatus and released their most recent album, Timeless, last year. Tulisa is set to make her TV comeback on I'm A Celebrity, having once mentored on the X Factor in 2011.

Ahead of her stint in the jungle, Tulisa said that if she was popular with the show’s audience it would “mean I’m doing something right in life”. Speaking about her reasons for appearing on I’m A Celebrity, she said: “My number one mission is to be my true, authentic self. If me being my authentic self connects with people in a mass way, then it must mean I’m doing something right in life.

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“But I am not going to go looking for it. This isn’t a career move for me either. I will always go back to N-Dubz and this is a one-off experience.” The singer even likened her time on the show to Lord of the Rings. "I am like Frodo Baggins on an unexpected journey," Tulisa quipped.

“I feel really adventurous this year and the place I am now in, I want to do things that take me out of my comfort zone. I have always said I wouldn’t do this show in the past, as there are things that have terrified me. But the person I am now, I want to throw caution to the wind.”

Tulisa has kept her appearnace on I'm A Celebrity quiet from her N-Dubz bandmates and just told a few friends. She added: “They feel it will be good for people to see the person I am, and not the perception. They are two very different people and they are excited. I just want to be in a place now where I live authentically.”

Despite heading back on primetime TV, and will use the money she earns on to put into a new property business. She told Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast: "The music industry is wild, it is ridiculous. I'm through most of it. I'll be out in two years from now. I'm going to property next year. I think I'll always come back for N Dubz. But I think the person I've become, I'm a public figure that doesn't really like being in the public eye."

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