Katie Melua: This spider lived in my ear for a week

The singer was surprised to know that 'a constant scratching noise' was caused by a spider that lived in her ear for seven days.

12:46 03 November 2014

Pop singer Katie Melua checked in with her doctor after being bothered by constant scratching noise inside her ear and was surprised to know that the cause was a live spider that lived in her ear for seven days, the star has now revealed.

 

The 30-year-old singer said she believed that the spider hid in a pair of headphones before entering her ear. 

 

Capturing one horrifying image of the anarchnid on Instagram, she wrote: “Basically I used these old in-ear monitors to block out sound on a flight, a little spider must have been in them and crawled inside my ear and stayed there for the week.” 

 

“Though the thing looked terrifying up-close on the doctor’s camera, once he took him out (using a micro-hoover) it was pretty small, and now it’s in this little test tube, alive and seemingly fine.

 

“It was no hassle at all, apart from the occasional shuffling noises.”

 

The singer’s spokesperson added: “The ear specialist said he’d never in his career taken out a live bug before. Plenty of dead ones. When it was out it was pretty tiny.

 

“Katie kept it in the test tube and released it in her garden when she got home. Apart from shuffling and random noises in her ear, the spider was no bother for the entire week it lived there. She was relieved it was what it was as she was worried she was losing her hearing.”