Rylan Clark says 'before people start' as he leaps to I'm A Celeb star Tulisa's defence

Rylan Clark has leapt to the defence of his pal Tulisa Contostavlos as she faced cruel comments from trolls as the latest series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! got under way. The N-Dubz singer made her debut on the ITV series on Sunday evening alongside Coleen Rooney, GK Barry and McFly's Danny Jones.

Many were thrilled to see the former X Factor judge back on TV screens - but some posts left BBC Radio 2 host Rylan disgruntled. The broadcaster was unable to let it slide and hit out at those who made "s**t jokes about her" on social media.

Rylan addressed those who had criticised the 36-year-old's appearance. He told his followers: "Before people start going for appearance, Tulisa has been through a lot health wise the last few years so let’s not make s*** jokes about her on twitter yeah x."

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Before the London-born singer headed to the jungle, Tulisa revealed a hidden health battle had forced her to seek the help of facial fillers, the Mirror report. Speaking on Olivia Attwood's podcast So Wrong Its Right, she said she'd suffered her first attack of Bell's palsy - a form of facial paralysis - at the age of 24, which lasted for seven months. Tulisa said in order to "balance" it out, she resorted to fillers.

During the reunion of N-Dubz, Tulisa said the condition was triggered again, adding "I'd have good days and bad days and on some days I’d take steroids, which would bring it down. When I was doing that N Dubz run it was at its worst - so you might see an interview, I look normal. And then you see another interview, it's like, what the hell is going on with my face?"

After seeing a doctor to get an ultrasound, she finally found out that she had three infected cysts. "So I basically had these cysts that were sat all around my cheek, swelling up with infection - one of them actually popped as he went in that's how infected it was," she said.

"I’ve no idea what they were caused by - they weren't filler, they were just self-occurring, but I came out of the operation and instantly my face was less swollen. There's some still there so I still have the inflammation but it's way less. In the next two months he's going to go in to get those ones."