Songstress Tulisa Contostavlos has confessed that living her life in the spotlight can be tiring because she has no privacy and it often strains her personal relationships.

Speaking to London's Metro newspaper about her love life, Tulisa explained that she has no space to let things develop because details of her romances get splashed all over the front pages of newspapers and magazines, so it makes it difficult to date:

"It can be suffocating. They don't let you have a personal life because they make assumptions about it from the second they find out anything about it. It's like they are living a made-up story or their version of your personal life before you actually get to live it."

"It's a lot of pressure [but] fortunately, and unfortunately at the same time, I don't really have dates. If I get into something with someone I've got to be pretty clear from the start that this is serious, otherwise it's just not worth it."

Watch Tulisa talk about the other X Factor judges in an access all areas clip here: