Chantelle Vivien Houghton (born 21 August 1983) is an English television personality,
glamour model
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, and columnist. In 2006, she competed in the
fourth series of the
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...
reality series ''
Celebrity Big Brother
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''. 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 . Following a much-publicised on-screen relationship, Houghton married former fellow ''Big Brother'' contestant
Samuel Preston of
The Ordinary Boys
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in August 2006.
Early life
Houghton was born on 21 August 1983 in
Wickford
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,
Essex
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, England, 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