Chantelle Houghton's boyfriend makes her feel 'pure love' for first time
Earlier this year, Chantelle Houghton revealed she has a boyfriend after two years of celibacy.
Chantelle Houghton's boyfriend has made her feel "pure love" for the first time.
The 42-year-old TV star - who was celibate for two years - said she "never had" that experience from her months-long marriage to 44-year-old singer Preston and relationships with 48-year-old Scam Interceptors host Rav Wilding, 51-year-old former mixed martial artist Alex Reid, who was previously married to model Katie Price, 48, and fiance Michael Strut.
On the latest episode of 51-year-old Paul C. Brunson's We Need to Talk podcast, Chantelle revealed: "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.
"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 feeling of pure love, I've never had it."
In 2006, Chantelle shot to fame after she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house as a non-star and convinced Preston - full name Samuel Preston - and their fellow housemates that she was a member of the fictional girl band, Kandy Floss.
The pair struck up a romance on the then-Channel 4 show and got married months after the April final, in which Chantelle was crowned the winner.
However, they "amicably" divorced in 2007, and upon reflection, the beauty admitted that she and Preston "should never have got married".
Chantelle added: "It should have been what it was. But you know what, we were young, we were on this crazy ride of Big Brother. "
The model went on to say that she and Preston's whirlwind love story would not have happened if it were not for being in the Celebrity Big Brother house together.
Chantelle said: "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."
However, she and the Ordinary Boys frontman still talk.
In February, Chantelle told Betway: "We still message every now and then. I think he’s engaged to someone now. We’re still friendly, there’s no bad blood.
"We didn’t have an awful falling out. Obviously, there were problems and a bit of animosity at the time, but no, I genuinely wish him well.
"We’ve been through so much together that no one else will really understand. That friendship still matters. It’s good memories, and it’s something we did once in our lives. It was just a great experience."
