Tulisa’s dad has died.
Tulisa’s dad has died
The N-Dubz star has taken to Instagram to announce the loss of her father Steve Contostavlos – who went by the name of Plato – but she didn’t share any details as to when the Mungo Jerry keyboardist had passed away.
Sharing a childhood photo of herself and her dad, Tulisa wrote on Tuesday (01.07.25): “Love you pops, rest in peace. Forever my father’s daughter.”
Her cousin and N-Dubz bandmate Dappy had also shared a video of himself with his uncle, alongside a white dove emoji.
When Tulisa commented on the post with a broken heart emoji, he replied: “I’m so sorry T.”
The former X Factor Judge previously revealed how her dad helped her develop her passion for music at a young age.
She told Ferne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast: “My dad had a little studio in Dollis Hill and he used to bring me there sometimes when he was working. He put me on the mic at the age of five. I was singing Little Mermaid.
“I just knew there was nothing else I felt passionate about.”
And the Number One hitmaker previously explained she and her dad were more “friends” than sharing a typical father/daughter relationship.
She told Paul C Brunson on his We Need To Talk podcast: “Me and my dad’s relationship has not been a conventional one.
“I would say me and my dad now we’re just more friends that kind of have an understanding of one another.”
In the same interview, Tylisa told how she became “dependent” on prescription drugs after self-medicating with sleeping pills to “numb the pain” after her dog got cancer, but she feared she was “going to die” after she tried to quit.
She said: “I was dependent without knowing… I just went cold turkey for five days and I ended up in hospital because I didn’t know, but my body had become dependent on it.
“I felt like I was having a heart attack. I had pains in my chest…. I just literally felt like I was going to die.
“Once I overcame that in January, I didn’t know how much I had been affected by it and I started to feel alive again.
“I started to feel me, as a human. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is reality’. I couldn’t determine anymore what was real and what wasn’t in terms of my anxiety, my depression.
“I didn’t know what was what. Then it takes so long for your body to get back to normal again and for your nervous system to recover.”
