Singer Katie Melua,30, discovered a spider was living in her ear after suffering scratching in her ear for a week. According to the Mail on Sunday She believes the spider crawled inside her ear after she used a pair of earphones on a flight. The singer has posted a picture of the spider on Instagram after an ear specialist removed it from her ear using a micro-vacuum cleaner.
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 it was pretty small, and now it’s in this little test tube, alive and seemingly fine,” she added, posting a picture of the spider in a plastic container.
A spokeswoman for Melua said, “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.”