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Chantelle Houghton has revealed she has found love with a new boyfriend after two years of celibacy.
The former Big Brother star, 42, who won the show in 2006, was married to singer Preston, 44, for a year after meeting in the show house before embarking on a string of other high-profile relationships.
Now Chantelle has admitted she should 'never have married Preston' and gushed she has found the love of her life with a man out of the public eye.
Speaking on the We Need To Talk podcast, released on Tuesday, she said: 'For the first time really in my life, I love that man with my whole being.
'From the very first moment, I just knew. I've not text a man, I've not dated a man, I've not had any sexual anything with a man for very many, many, many years before I met my partner.
'I was so single by choice but also I hadn't met anyone that I was attracted to.
Chantelle Houghton has revealed she has found the love of her life with a man out of the public eye after two years of celibacy
The former Big Brother star, 42, who won the show in 2006 and married singer Preston, 44, for a year after meeting on the series, admitted they should 'never have married'
'We went out on a first date a couple of weeks ago and everything has been so obviously exciting but so easy, so comfortable, so reassuring, so like he looks after me, I feel looked after.
'I know how much he loves me, I feel it, I literally feel it, I've never had that before that felling of pure love, I've never had it.'
The TV personality went on to discuss her 'amicable divorce' from Preston as she admitted if they hadn't of met on Big Brother she would never of fancied him.
The couple became engaged four months after leaving the house in April 2006, before tying the knot four months later. They divorced less than a year after marrying.
She said: 'We should never have got married, like it should have been what it was. But you know what, we were young, we were on this crazy ride of Big Brother.
'In real life we would never have met, he wouldn't have fancied me, I wouldn't have fancied him, we just weren't right.
'It was the most amicable divorce ever, the day I moved out of the house we hugged and said goodbye, there was no nastiness, no bitterness, no hate, no nothing. It was a very easy breakup.'
Chantelle was also engaged to Katie Price's ex Alex Reid, with whom she shares daughter Dolly, 13, but ended the relationship after claims he had been unfaithful with other men and turned their home into a sex dungeon in 2011.
She also dated former Crimewatch host Rav Wilding, before they were pictured having a blazing row after which led to them splitting up in 2012.
Chantelle also sat down to talk with Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday as she opened up about her bulimia.
She said: 'For the first time really in my life, I love that man with my whole being. From the very first moment, I just knew. I've not had any sexual anything with a man for many years. I was so single by choice but also I hadn't met anyone that I was attracted to'
The TV star, who has struggled with body dysmorphia for more than 20 years, said she struggled with the 'pressure' of being in the public eye and 'restricted her eating'.
Opening up about her 'difficult 10 years' Chantelle explained how she used 'eating as a coping mechanism'.
She said: 'People would say, "Are you pregnant" and I wasn't and there was pressure. After I got divorced I lost my support system and had episodes of bulimia and then more restricted eating.
'I had a difficult 10 years of my life and I used eating as a coping mechanism. I got down to 8st 2 and I'm 5ft 7 I couldn't see that I looked unwell.'
The star added: 'I'm in a really good place now with food and will it come back in the future probably. I'm not blaming it on the industry I think it was rooted into me.'
Earlier this week, Chantelle revealed her friends and family questioned if she was a 'drug addict' because of her rapid weight loss back in 2023.
The Big Brother housemate has been incredibly open over the years about her fluctuating weight.
She first embarked on her weight loss transformation after reaching 13st following her 2021 split from ex-fiancé Michael Strutt and was relentlessly trolled for her weight.
Chantelle said she started to become fixated on losing pounds after dropping more than four stone during the pandemic.
As the weight fell off quickly, Chantelle found herself 'getting a buzz' out of being able to fit into her then 12-year-old daughter's clothes.
Chantelle said: 'People were saying I was a crackhead. I remember my brother looking at me one day and saying, "Chantelle, if I didn't know you, I'd think you were dying."
'It did get to a point where I had to ask myself, "Am I going to die for this? Am I going to kill myself?"
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