Tulisa Contostavlos’ personal assistant, Gareth Varey made the claims to an undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood when asked about Simon's sexuality.
In a statement today, Varey said:
“On 10 May 2013 in the course of seeking to entrap Tulisa, Mazher Mahmood supplied Tulisa, me and others with a lot of alcohol. I can no longer recall all of the details of that evening but I have listened to the recording made by Mahmood. I was clearly very drunk”
“At some point and utterly out of the blue Mahmood asked me if Simon Cowell was gay. I said he was. This is not true. I do not know why I said it, but assume it is because I was so drunk and felt that I was giving Mahmood the type of information he was seeking. I am very sorry for this.”
The trial was thrown out after Judge McCreath concluded that Mazher Mahmood’s lies had fatally undermined the prosecution. Tulisa was cleared of brokering the drugs deal which was first reported in The Sun newspaper last year. Mahmood has been suspended by the paper.
Tulisa will tell the full story of her horrific ordeal in a tell-all BBC Three documentary, which will air next week.
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