The singing star Katie Melua got a surprise after discovering a tiny spider had been living in her ear for a week.
After she got the problem checked out she discovered she had been carrying around an uninvited guest and posted a video of the tiny creature on her Instagram account.
The tiny spider was removed from Katie’s ears after a minor operation.
A spokesman for Katie، who hit fame for songs such as Nine Million Bicycles and the Closest Thing to Crazy، said: “The ear specialist said he’d never in his career taken out a live bug before.”
In reference with the spokesman، media said that Katie kept the little spider in a test tube and released it in her garden later.
Katie said while posting the photo on instagram، “Basically I used these old in-ear monitors to block out sound on a flight، little spider must have been in them and crawled inside my ear and stayed there for the week. It was no hassle at all، apart from the occasional shuffling noises…”
The 30-year-old once sang a song called “Spiders Web”.