Tulisa ‘bragged she was able to supply drugs’

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos helped to supply cocaine to an undercover reporter who promised he could help the singer crack the movie business, a court has heard.

Reporter Mazher Mahmood, dubbed the “fake sheikh”, posed as a wealthy film producer called Samir Khan and met the former N-Dubz star in Las Vegas and at the luxury Metropolitan hotel in London’s Mayfair, jurors heard.

He promised the 26-year-old singer he could “get her a part in a big movie that was coming up” with Leonardo Di Caprio as her possible co-star, and she was keen to be “in his good books”, prosecutor Tim Cray told London’s Southwark Crown Court.