Tulisa Contostavlos has appeared at Southwark Crown Court over drug charges and will now stand trial in July.

The N-Dubz star attended a preliminary hearing this morning (22 April), following her arrest in July 2013 under suspicion of “being concerned in” supplying Class A substances.

The investigation followed a police sting, in which Tulisa was allegedly filmed appearing to help with a cocaine deal for a man who was later revealed to be an undercover journalist. Tulisa was arrested after the incident along with musician Mike GLC.

During an initial hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in December, Tulisa denied being concerned with supplying Class A drugs, while Mike, full name Michael Coombs, denied intent to supply.

In December, the singer's lawyer Ben Rose gave a statement, explaining that his client would plead not guilty. According to The Mirror, he said: "Tulisa has been charged with a serious criminal offence to which she will plead not guilty.

"As has been widely reported, this entire case has been manufactured by the Sun on Sunday and Mazher Mahmood, sometimes known as the fake sheikh.

"They spent a large amount of their readers' money in flying Tulisa and a number of her friends first class to Las Vegas."

A spokesman for The Sun has said: "The Sun on Sunday's investigation into Tulisa Contostavlos was entirely justified in the public interest. It was undertaken by Mazher Mahmood, our award-winning journalist.

"Throughout our investigation, our team followed the Press Complaints Commission Code and then handed over our dossier of evidence to the police.

"Following the police investigation, prosecutors have decided that there is a clear case to answer. It is right that this matter should go to court and be decided by a jury."

Tulisa’s trial will begin on 14 July, just one day after her 26th birthday, and there will be another pre-trial hearing on 25 June, reports The Mirror.

With shades of Lindsay and Paris, X-Factor judge and former N-Dubz hottie Tulisa Contostavlos hit the London courtroom during the day for her hearing on charges of maybe kind of moving a controlled substance in a sting operation......and by night, she was out looking ridiculously hot in a short short dress to hit a birthday party in a swank nightclub. Personally, I tend to take a break between my court appearances and the party appearances that are typically the reason I'm in court in the first place. But, then, I don't have sweet toned legs and some healthy wicked cleave like Tulisa. Nor do I really get invited to posh London parties for that matter. Somehow, Tulisa did manage to keep her dress covering her precious bits in the back of the car, which if you ask me, is the real crime here. Enjoy.

Here is Tulisa Contostavlos revealing the panty upskirt while heading home at 4:00 AM after leaving The Project Club in London. Yeah man, Tulisa Contostavlos is one girl who sure know how to have a good time. And it seems the X Factor UK judge was enjoying herself a bit too much as she stumbled out of the nightclub at 4 in the morning last Friday. As she left Mayfair nightspot in the early hours, the singer ended up needing a helping hand as she tripped while making her way to the waiting car. She wore a very short multi-colored strapless bandeau dress that could not possibly reveal anymore cleavage and underneath the dress she wore white panties with red heart shape prints covering it. This heart shape print would make for a nice wrapping on a guy's next birthday gift especially if it is covering something similar.

In other Tulisa news, she has obtained an injunction in the UK banning the sale or broadcast of the short sex-tape online of herself performing oral sex on an ex-boyfriend. And is reportedly suing Justin Edwards (aka MC Ultra) for £100,000, accusing him of being behind the leak of the video, a claim he vehemently denies. She told the Guardian: 'I slept on the bathroom floor for seven days ... I just wouldn't go out of the house. I couldn't sleep. 'Didn't really want to eat anything. But I snapped out of it. I knew what I was doing. I knew in my head that I was depressed; I knew why I was depressed.'It was all logical. I didn't want to smile. I didn't want to be happy ... It was like a level of mourning, do you know what I mean?' Tulisa conceded she needed to take a step back to have her 'tears and tantrums' and 'bad moods'.

Yup, so we can all be a bit happier for her because it seems she is feeling a lot better since she is out clubbing again. And Thank goodness that injunction that banned on the leaked Tulisa oral sex video is only affecting websites based in the UK jurisdiction alone because we were one of the first to share it and you can still download it right here for free. LOL... Anyway, sadly her pussy was not seen in the interesting leaked blowjob video. So many guys are still wanting to see that hot clam of hers. It will happen sooner or later but for now guys are going to have to make due with panty upskirt shots like the photos below taken by the paparazzi

Normally a silver fox is a term reserved for grey haired men of a certain age, but the label could apply to Tulisa Contostavlos who looked rather foxy in a white and silver sequinned bikini on her Dubai holiday.

The singer has been relaxing in the United Arab Emirates with her best friend and assistant Gareth Varey for the last couple of weeks, soaking up the sun in the hot climes.

But it would have been a cruel awakening for Tulisa, 25, as she headed back to England on Monday, with the wet and windy weather to welcome her home.

The former N-Dubz star wore a similar white bikini on her birthday trip to Ibiza, where her tattoo 'Lucky You' was visible for all to see as it poked out from the top of her low-slung bottoms.

But on this holiday it seems Tulisa that it was the only one of her many tattoos that she had tried to cover up.

Visible on her back is a unicorn meets Pegasus hybrid, rearing it's hooves on her right shoulder blade, while she takes strength from her own words in her lower back etching which reads: 'She is strong when she is weak, She is brave when she is scared, She is humble when she is victorious'.

These lyrics are from the intro track on her ill-received debut solo album The Female Boss.

Not letting her chart failure keep her down, Tulisa whisked herself away to Dubai where she's been enjoying the nightlife as much as the sun, sand and sea.

On one of her last nights on the Persian Gulf, the 25-year old headed to the sister club of London's Movida where she soon made friends with some British holidaymakers.