Tulisa - The Biography by Newkey-Burden Chas

Author:Newkey-Burden, Chas [Newkey-Burden, Chas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781782190479
Publisher: Perseus Faber
Published: 2012-08-05T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

With the live shows around the corner, Tulisa realised that not only was she now utterly absorbed in the series and its multiple machinations, but that she would be for some months ahead. As many who have been involved in The X Factor have found, it is an all-encompassing experience that one either embraces in full or has to leave alone. Although she knew that when she signed up, the magnitude of it only dawned on her once she was firmly involved. ‘I’m just living it and breathing it at the moment and I’m spending a lot of time with the contestants. I was with them last night and I get very emotionally attached to them as well. I was at the house all day long, cooking them dinner, asking, “Have you eaten?”, “Are you alright?” … and yeah, it becomes your life.’ From the mother hen of N-Dubz to the mother hen of The X Factor, Tulisa was proving quite the clucky character.

During the live shows, the media obsession with the series becomes nothing short of monstrous. It was perhaps for this reason that as the series progressed, Tulisa and Fazer had finally begun to go public about their relationship. Having been together since 2010, they had kept it quiet for some time. It was Fazer who confirmed the rumours when he said: ‘‘I’ve got a glow about me, I’m in love. She’s the one. I’m in love with a great girl.’ Of her X Factor challenge to come, he could not have been more supportive in his words. ‘She’s got a special aura about her. I just think she stands out and she has a real opinion. I don’t think words can describe how proud I am of her. We’re going to support her for the live shows definitely.’ Tulisa added: ‘He’s my rock – he’s been there for me throughout the past few months. I couldn’t be doing what I’m doing without him,’ the star revealed.

She would need strength aplenty during the live finals. The opening show saw each judge, in an X Factor first, forced to drop one of their four acts. There was no public vote. It was an excruciating moment for each judge, Tulisa said she suffered so much that she ‘cried tears’ over it. The band she sent home was 2 Shoes. After she delivered the decision, a tearful Tulisa told them: ‘I can’t even find a reason to say why… I had to pick one act, and I’m so sorry, girls.’ She added: ‘I class you as my friends now and I swear, I swear I want to stay in touch with you.’ She then embraced them. Of all the judges, she had seemed to take this part of the process hardest. If she thought that had been a difficult week, she had a far tougher one just around the corner.

In week two, she lost her act Nu Vibe. The bottom two had been her band and Frankie Cocozza. Barlow, unsurprisingly, voted to protect his own act Cocozza by sending home Nu Vibe.

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