Reason I’m A Celebrity’s Tulisa and Reverend Richard Coles are exempt from height trials is revealed

By William On Nov 25, 2024

I’m A Celebrity fans discovered last night that Tulisa and Reverend Richard Coles had been exempt from altitude tests, with the N-Dubz singer accidentally revealing hers was for ‘medical reasons’.

Before voting began for tonight’s Bushtucker trial, the show’s longtime hosts Ant and Dec announced that Tulisa, 36, and Reverend Coles, 62, would be excused from the trial without further explanation.

Fans were left speculating as to why, even as the Geordie duo broke camp, Dean McCullough, 32, would appear in court again.

After the Geordie duo announced that Dean would be appearing in court again and just before the end credits, Tulisa could be heard in the background explaining to her campmates: ‘I know it’s heights because I’m medically exempt from that .’

Before heading into the jungle, Reverend Richard Coles told MailOnline: ‘I recently froze in fear on a stepladder on the second step.

‘Everything on high. So anything that involves walking a horrible rickety tightrope or something, that’s going to be scary.”

It is likely that the former Church of England minister has been cleared due to his crippling fear of heights, but it is unclear whether he has been diagnosed with a fear of heights.

Meanwhile, viewers on X, formerly known as Twitter, were quick to point out that the former

Tulisa has suffered from Bell’s palsy, a sudden weakness or paralysis on one side of the face, and climbing at heights can reportedly be dangerous in case another attack occurs.

One person wrote: ‘She was out of control when she jumped out of a plane, she was attached to someone.

“When her face flared up because of her Bell’s palsy, she had someone to help her.

‘If she had a sudden seizure at altitude during a trial, it would not be safe to continue the trial.’

People with Bell’s palsy reportedly don’t know what their face is going to do for the next two hours and while symptoms vary from person to person, it appears Tulisa has a severe case of the condition as it once lasted seven months.

She told Olivia Attwood’s podcast, So Wrong It’s Right, ‘When I was about 24, I had my first Bell’s Palsy attack.

Fans were left speculating as to why, even as the Geordie duo broke camp, Dean McCullough, 32, would appear in court again

‘So I was sitting at home and I had a huge inflammatory reaction and it went away, but my whole face sank – eye, everything.

“I couldn’t move it, my face stayed like that for seven months. I didn’t go out, I just hid in the house.”

‘As I neared the end of the seven months, my face is still not fine…

‘I would buy fillers to balance the symmetry.

“So I would be right if you put some in that cheek to compensate for the swelling on that cheek, and then if you put some here, lift this up so my lip isn’t down there.

“You can imagine the vicious circle.”

But then Tulisa noticed a “slight swelling” that started to occur in the same cheek, which “worsened” and she had “tingling sensations like ants were crawling on my face.”

It is likely that the former Church of England minister has been cleared due to his crippling fear of heights, but it is unclear whether he has been diagnosed with a fear of heights.

She revealed: ‘It was scary, and what happened next was because I had slight swelling. I then dissolved all the filler and I corrected the inflammation by applying filler to the other side.

“So you have this side swollen and this side is filled to match the swelling.

‘This continued into this year so even when I did the N-Dubz run it was at its worst, I constantly felt like my cheek was on fire.

‘I had good days and bad days and some days I also took steroids which brought it down, so maybe you see an interview and I look normal, and then you see another interview and it’s like, ‘What’s up the hell going on?’ with her face’.’