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CHANTELLE Houghton has revealed she’s got a new boyfriend after being celibate for over two years.

The 42-year-old has seen a number of relationships play out in public after rising to fame on Celebrity Big Brother in 2006.

Chantelle had entered the Big Brother house as a non-celebrity but had to pretend she was in a girl band.

She won the hearts of viewers and it lead to her winning the series, and becoming a fixture on TV and in the press.

But being in the spotlight made it hard for her relationships, with her whirlwind marriage to CBB co-star Preston falling apart after just 10 months.

Over the years she has also dated TV presenter Rav Wilding and has a daughter with Katie Price‘s ex-husband, Alex Reid.

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In 2021, Chantelle split from her fiance Michael Strut, after things fizzled out when they moved in together during Covid lockdown.

So for the last few years, Chantelle has focused on being a mum, and admitted in past interviews she was celibate.

But in an exclusive chat with The Sun Online, Chantelle has now revealed she’s in a new relationship with a mystery man.

She said: “I think my smile says it all. I have met someone. He’s not in the public eye, but that’s all I’ll say.”

Explaining her reasons for keeping her new romance under wraps, Chantelle said: “I feel like all of my relationships have been public.

“The two relationships I had before Big Brother were the only ones that were private, but they weren’t really proper relationships because I was so young.

“Every relationship I’ve had since has been in the public eye, and hasn’t been mine, almost. Especially with Preston.

“Preston and I were everybody’s, and I get it. I understand why people were invested, and I totally found that flattering, but it was hard.

“It definitely put a strain on the relationship, and that was one of the biggest challenges we faced.”

As well as being happy with her new man, Chantelle is also content with her body after years of diets.

Chantelle, who is working with Betway, explained: “I’m really happy with myself, and I feel great.

“When I was younger, I did the Special K diet, I did the cabbage soup diet, and I even did the ‘not-eating’ diet.

“I actually saw something the other day on TikTok that said, ‘Here’s to all the Special K breakfast diet survivors.’ I was one of them!

“I think back then, you really believed you could only get slimmer by going to extremes.

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“We just didn’t have the knowledge we have now about diet and exercise.”

Last year, Chantelle revealed she had lost five stone through diet and exercise and she said: “These days, I’m so much healthier.

“I enjoy the food I eat, and I’m slim, whereas back then it felt like you had to starve yourself to get thin.

“Looking back, it’s actually very simple. Eat healthily, move more, and you’ll lose weight. But we didn’t see it that way at the time.”

Davina McCall married her long-term partner during an ‘absolutely beautiful’ ceremony recently, just months after the couple announced their engagement following a trip to Ibiza

Davina McCall broke down in tears during an emotional discussion with husband Michael Douglas. Davina and Michael tied the knot recently in an “absolutely beautiful” ceremony in front of their friends and family.

It came just three months after Davina, 58, announced that she and celebrity hairstylist Michael got engaged during a trip to Ibiza. The couple first started dating in 2018, having met originally on the set of Big Brother in 2000.

Their marriage came after a difficult year for Davina, who underwent surgery in November 2024 after medics discovered a colloid cyst on her brain. Just over a year later she revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer after finding a small lump.

Now on the Making the Cut podcast, Davina’s husband Michael praised the television presenter for using her fame to speak candidly about her health battles and “help a lot of people”.

It came after Michael recently read Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography. In the book, the Boss spoke candidly about his music and his life, something Michael said he found to be a “therapeutic experience”.

Michael said: “I realised the important role that famous people can have in regular people’s lives. Bruce putting his life in the paper or out there has helped me.

“I realised what it means to be married to someone like you who also does that and what it’s like to be around someone who puts themselves out in a way that is to benefit and help other people and I want to say, well done you.

“I realise what you stand for for a lot of people and I see them stop you in the street and say how grateful they are for what you decided to do with your fame and your time. In a way that Springsteen helped me, I realised you helped a lot of people.”

The touching words from her husband made The Masked Singer panellist Davina audibly tear up. Davina will return to screens with Long Lost Families tonight (January 29) from 9pm on ITV One.

The series sees Davina and co-host Nicky Campbell reuniting people with their loved ones. Tonight the series will visit Mandy whose parents had a baby girl they placed for adoption, she is now attempting to find her long-lost big sister.

Elsewhere Jane thought she was an only child until her mother revealed she had a baby boy 11 months before her. Jane now wants help finding her long lost brother who was put up for adoption.

Davina has previously spoken about the emotions she feels when reunited siblings, especially because she lost her sister to cancer in 2012. Caroline, 50, was diagnosed with lung cancer after being rushed to hospital after suffering a suspected stroke.

Speaking to Love TV, she said: “Sometimes with siblings, it’s quite hard and painful, because one sibling might have grown up with their birth family, while the other was placed for adoption. There’s a lot to unpack there, you know?”

Davina says the show’s genealogists occasionally track people down who weren’t even aware they had a sibling. “Imagine being gifted a sibling out of the blue, it would be absolutely mad,” she added.