Chantelle Preston
| Chantelle Houghton | |
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Houghton in 2011
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| Born |
Chantelle Vivien Houghton 21 August 1983 Wickford, Essex, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Television personality, glamour model, media personality, television presenter, columnist, novelist |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Television |
Celebrity Big Brother (2006) Ultimate Big Brother (2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Samuel Preston (m. 2006; div. 2007) |
| Partner(s) | Alex Reid (2011–2012) |
| Children | 1 |
Chantelle Vivien Houghton (born 21 August 1983) is an English television personality, glamour model, media personality, television presenter, columnist and novelist. She was the first 'non-celebrity' to feature in the Channel 4 reality television show Celebrity Big Brother in 2006.
She emerged as the winner of series 4, beating 10 celebrities: (Michael Barrymore, Maggot, Samuel Preston, Pete Burns, Traci Bingham, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Rula Lenska, Faria Alam and Jodie Marsh), winning a prize of £25,000. Following a much-publicised on-screen courtship, Houghton married former fellow Big Brother contestant Samuel Preston of The Ordinary Boys in August 2006.
Houghton was born in Wickford, Essex, to Allan and Vivien, and has an older brother, Gregg. She has a daughter. She attended Bromfords School in Wickford, the same school that Big Brother 8 winner Brian Belo attended. She left school at 15 with seven GCSEs, then worked in a bank and as an insurance telesales rep. Houghton is a vegetarian.
After various friends suggested she would make a good model, Houghton entered a 2001 competition run by a Motorcycle News magazine, and after winning it became a promotions girl. Wanting to be like her heroine Katie Price, she undertook some glamour modelling, started out by having her mother take some topless shots in a local park. In 2003, she entered a Daily Star competition as a page three girl, which she did not win, but appeared once in the tabloid newspaper.
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