Chantelle Houghton
English television personality and model
Chantelle Vivien Houghton (born 21 August 1983) is an English television personality and glamour model. In 2006, she won the fourth series of the Channel 4 reality series Celebrity Big Brother.
Houghton was sent in as a non-celebrity with the task of persuading her celebrity housemates that she was famous. She emerged as the winner of the series, winning a prize of £25,000. She also became the first female to win Celebrity Big Brother. Following a much-publicised on-screen relationship, Houghton married former fellow Big Brother contestant Samuel Preston of The Ordinary Boys in August 2006.
Early life
Houghton was born on 21 August 1983 in Wickford, Essex, to her parents Allan and Vivien, and has an older brother, Gregg. She attended Bromfords School in Wickford, the same school that Big Brother 8 winner Brian Belo attended several years later. She left school at age 15 with seven GCSEs, then worked in a bank and as an insurance telesales representative.
Career
Modelling
After various friends suggested she would make a good model, Houghton entered a 2001 competition run by Motor Cycle News magazine, and after winning it became a grid promotions girl.
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