Tulisa shared what her real name is after recently being asked about it for first time

Tulisa has revealed that we’ve all been pronouncing her name wrong for the entire time – after being asked about it on a recent podcast episode.

The N-Dubz singer and former X Factor judge is currently taking part in the latest series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here alongside the likes of Coleen Rooney and GK Barry.

Despite only being in the jungle for one day, the star has already been showing off her iconic ‘The Female Boss’ tattoo as well as leaving fans shocked after learning her real age.

However, were you aware that we’ve been pronouncing Tulisa’s name wrong this entire time?

Ahead of entering the jungle, the 36-year-old appeared on Olivia Atwood’s podcast So Wrong it’s Right where the TV personality asked about Tulisa’s real name.

“Tulisa is not your actual name,” Atwood said, a question which surprised the rapper.

“No, it isn’t,” she replied. “You’re the first person to bring that up ever. Love that.”

For anyone who wasn’t aware of this (myself included), the singer’s full name is actually Tula Paulinea Contostavlos.

“All the years of knowing you, following you, I’ve never heard that mentioned,” Atwood added, leading Tulisa to reveal the origin of the nickname.

“My grandmother is also called Tula, so I was named after her,” she began. “So Tulisa means ‘tiny Tula’ in Greek.”

Not only is Tulisa not the singer’s real name, but we’ve all been pronouncing it wrong for years (Ricky Vigil M / Justin E Palmer/GC Images)

The explanation also revealed how badly we’ve also been butchering the pronunciation all this time, as the correct way to say Tulisa would be ‘Tul-ITZ-ah’ instead of ‘Tuh-lees-a’ which most of us have been saying.

“We just butcher it,” Atwood noted, laughing, to which Tulisa responded: “Yeah… so that ended up being my nickname in Greek, growing up.”

Elsewhere on the podcast, Tulisa also opened up about the heartbreaking reason she had plastic surgery due to a Bell’s Palsy diagnosis.

Recalling her first flare-up of the condition at the age of 24, she said: “I had a massive burst of inflammation and it went down but my whole face dropped.

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

Tulisa then went on to explain how the fillers she’d gotten in subsequent years were to ‘balance out’ her face.

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