Chantelle Houghton reveals she’s got a new boyfriend after being celibate for over two years
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.
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.”