Tulisa 'very happy' with new footballer boyfriend

Tulisa 'very happy' with new footballer boyfriend
Tulisa 'very happy' with new footballer boyfriend (Image credit: PA)

Tulisa Contostavlos has opened up about her relationship with footballer Danny Simpson, insisting they're happy together. The X Factor judge and the Newcastle United premiership footballer have been the subject of tabloid gossip after Stephanie Ward, the mother of Danny's daughter Skye-Lorena, gave a series of interviews to The Sun. Shameless star Jody Latham, who stars in Tulisa's Sight Of You video has also spoken out, claiming they had an affair before she left him for Danny. Tulisa tweeted: "Wow there has been a lot of BULLS*** in the press this week! Only part of it that's true is I am very happy wid my man @dannysimpson #HAPPY." Danny, 25, also tweeted: " let them say what they want #AintGonnaMakeaDifference." The 24-year-old singer has been on the defensive this week after she hit back at rival X Factor judge Louis Walsh on live TV when he called her a WAG, ie a footballer's 'Wife And Girlfriend'. Tulisa retorted: "Excuse me? You mean I'm a Waf! It means 'Was Already Famous'!" The former N-Dubz star didn't let her troubles, or the exit of her last finalist Ella Henderson from The X Factor, get to her as she performed at London's G-A-Y nightclub on Sunday, wearing tiny gold hotpants with a matching jacket.

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.