Tulisa Contostavlos and GK Barry have revealed they broke show rules while starring on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! together.

The 36-year-old N-Dubz icon and the 25-year-old podcast star – whose real name is Grace Keeling – were contestants on the recent 2024 season of ITV’s long-running reality show. And now the pair appear to have admitted to committing a major breach of the rules while they were in Australia.

GK hosts her popular podcast series, titled the Saving Grace podcast, and this week, Tulisa was unveiled as her latest guest. As they sat down for a catch up, GK copied Tulisa’s signature move of holding her arm held in front of her like a shield – a manoeuvre Tulisa utilised back when she was a judge on The X Factor as she would stand on stage to show off the huge tattoo reading “The Female Boss” on her forearm.

Speaking on the podcast, and emulating the move, GK announced: “We’ve got The Female Boss on the pod. It’s Tulisa! I haven’t stopped. I haven’t stopped since I come out. I was literally like [Tulisa signature pose] getting off the plane, like. I swear to god. I can’t stop. I feel like I held myself together in front of you well.”

The N-Dubz star and the Saving Grace podcast host were contestants on the 2024 season of ITV’s reality show ( 
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It was then, while discussing GK’s apparent love for her band N-Dubz, that Tulisa revealed she had broken strict I’m A Celeb rules with the podcast host when they were in the jungle by sneaking off together and smoking while having an unsanctioned, unrecorded conversation. Tulisa said: “I found this out. I didn’t know that you were were like this huge N-Dubz fan until one day we were having a cheeky cig round the back. And we’re not meant to obviously meet ever, are we?”

GK confirmed: “[We were] not meant to talk.” And Tulisa continued: “We’re not meant to talk. And I don’t know how – somehow, we managed to, like … And then you were like, ‘Yeah, I’ve just completely it down.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ I would never have know.”

Confirming her extreme love for N-Dubz, GK said: “And do you know how I, I really outdid myself because there was one question, it was like, ‘How many of like, N-Dubz songs were number one?’ And I was like, ‘So all together it would have been about six, I would say, that were number one, from what I can remember out of the album.’ And everyone was looking at me like, ‘What?’ And I got it right!”

Fans reacted in surprise – for a range of reasons – to the podcast confession. One commented: “Not me thinking they had to give up smoking in the jungle.” While others mocked the fact that GK lavished praise on Tuilisa and mentioned chart achievements that she could only ever dream of achieving. One fan commented: “The fact that n dubz only had 1 number 1 singles makes this funnier. And it wasn’t even their song.” Another wrote: “N- DUBZ as a group on there own have never had a number one.” And a further fan commented: “The answers wrong. They didn’t have any, so not quite close with 6.”