Tulisa denies 'cheating' with top footballer

Tulisa denies 'cheating' with top footballer
Tulisa denies 'cheating' with top footballer (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has said she does not want to get into a 'war of words' over footballer Danny Simpson after being pictured with him several times. Photographs of the singer with the Newcastle United footballer have been widely published and Danny's girlfriend said he 'cheated' on her. Stephanie Ward, the mother of Danny's daughter Skye-Lorena, said she was expecting their second child. She told The Sun: "I have a baby on the way and a little girl who's one-and-a-half. If he wants to leave that, then that's up to him. "But I won't be here for him if he comes back. I don't care any more. He's made his bed so he can lie in it." Speaking to her fans on Twitter, Tulisa said: "I don't want 2 get in2 a public war of words, but what is being written about me is absolutely not true." The star was pictured in Newcastle and Manchester with Simpson. Danny, 25, was born in Salford and started out at Manchester United before joining Newcastle in 2009 in a loan deal that the club made permanent six months later.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.