'Horrified' Katie Melua finds spider living in her ear

Katie Melua has revealed that she had a spider in her year that was living there for a week.

The 30-year-old singer had gone to her doctors to complain about a repetitive scratching noise she could hear in her ear that had failed to quieten after a week, the Independent reported.

She discovered that it wasn't in fact an early sign of tinnitus, but that the noise had actually been caused by a spider living in her ear for seven days.

Melua believes that the spider entered in her ear because her old in-ear headphones that she used and that the incident was no hassle at all, apart from the occasional shuffling noises.