I'm A Celeb's Tulisa says she's demisexual

I’m A Celeb’s Tulisa says she’s demisexual

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Tulisa Contostavlos instructed camp mates she wants an emotional bond to really feel sexually interested in others

I am A Celeb’s Tulisa Contostavlos has instructed her campmates she’s demisexual and has abstained from intercourse for greater than three years.

The N-Dubz singer and former X-Issue decide defined she wants “to have a very shut emotional bond with somebody” earlier than she finds them sexually engaging.

“For me, it is all in regards to the connection and the feelings that I really feel with somebody after which wanting to specific them in that manner,” she stated, talking on Tuesday’s episode of the ITV present.

Her description of herself as demisexual received a number of viewers questioning what the time period “demisexual” means.

It is a phrase used to explain individuals who solely develop a sexual attraction to others after forming a deep bond based mostly on their persona, slightly than feeling an instantaneous connection.

They could not fancy somebody based mostly on issues like the best way they give the impression of being, odor or sound.

Tulisa instructed her campmates she’s “not a very sexualised particular person”.

“I would like precise depth… I am a sluggish, sluggish burner,” she stated.

The 36-year-old from London stated she had a profile on unique relationship app Raya however the considered relationship “genuinely makes me really feel bodily sick”.

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Tulisa began within the music business as one third of N-Dubz, alongside Dappy and Fazer

Tulisa first shot to fame as a part of N-Dubz within the 2000s earlier than going solo with tracks together with Younger and Sight of You.

After she entered the Australian jungle on Sunday, broadcaster Rylan Clark, who met Tulisa when she was a decide on X-Issue, urged viewers to not touch upon her look.

Chatting with podcaster and former Love Islander Olivia Atwood, Tulisa mentioned having surgical procedure and fillers after she was identified with Bell’s palsy.

Bell’s palsy is a sort of paralysis that briefly impacts the power to manage the facial muscle groups.

Tulisa instructed Olivia’s So Mistaken It is Proper podcast the situation meant her “entire face dropped” so she began getting remedies to “steadiness out the symmetry” of her face.

She’s within the Australian jungle alongside Coleen Rooney, content material creator GK Barry and McFly’s Danny Jones in addition to Radio 1 DJs Melvin Odoom and Dean McCullough.

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