Chantelle Houghton Profile:
Chantelle Vivien Houghton (previously Preston) best known as Chantelle Houghton with nickname Paris Travelodge, Pretty Travelodge was born August 21, 1983 (star sign: Leo) at her hometown in Brentwood, Essex, England, United Kingdom (Uk). Chantelle Houghton is a beautiful British reality TV personality (reality Television star), female model (glamour model, commercial model, internet model, sexy fashion model, beauty model, girl model, magazine cover model, top and popular model, blonde model), and blonde women celebrity. She has a hair color: wonderful dyed blonde, eyes color: soft blue, height: 5′ 7″ (170 cm), measurements: 36-25-36, assets: famous and popular name, charming face, soft blue eyes, wonderful dyed blonde hair, lovely smile, and gorgeous England beauty, hobbies: photography acting, acting for the photoshoot, pose in front of the camera, and world of modeling.

Chantelle Houghton when non-celebrity (the first ‘non-celebrity’) was appear to feature in the Channel 4 reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother on 2006. Chantelle Houghton emerged as the winner of series 4, beating 10 bona fide ‘celebrities’ (Michael Barrymore, Maggot, Preston, Pete Burns, Traci Bingham, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Rula Lenska, Faria Alam and Jodie Marsh), and winning a prize of £25,000. Chantelle Houghton on October 2007 was named “TV’s latest reality millionaire” and experts reported that her true wealth easily exceeds £1 million.

Chantelle Houghton Biography:
In her early life, Chantelle Houghton was born August 21, 1983 with birth name is Chantelle Vivien Houghton at her hometown in Brentwood, Essex, England, United Kingdom (Uk) to parents Alan and Vivien, and has an older brother Greg. Chantelle Houghton leaving school at 15 with seven GCSEs, and Chantelle Houghton worked in a bank and as an insurance telesales rep.

In her personal life, Chantelle Houghton married former fellow Celebrity Big Brother 2006 contestant Samuel Preston of The Ordinary Boys on August 2006. Chantelle Houghton and Samuel Preston announced their separation in a joint statement on June 27, 2007, and finally divorced on November 21, 2007.

In her modleing career, after various friends suggested Chantelle Houghton would make a good model, Chantelle Houghton entered a 2001 competition run by a Motorcycle News magazine, and after winning it became a promotions girl. Wanting to be like her heroine Jordan (Katie Price), Chantelle Houghton undertook some glamour modelling, started out by having her mother take some pretty and amazing shots in a local park. Chantelle Houghton on 2003 entered a Daily Star competition as a page three girl, which Chantelle Houghton didn’t win but appeared once in the tabloid newspaper.

Chantelle Houghton appeared as a Soccerette model on Sky TV’s Soccer AM show, and she worked for a look-alike agency, portraying Paris Hilton. Chantelle Houghton on 2005 competed in a Miss Greater London beauty pageant, where Chantelle Houghton lost to Jenny Velasquez who took the crown and went on to compete in Miss England.

Chantelle Houghton in Celebrity Big Brother 2006: Chantelle Houghton had originally applied to be in Big Brother 6 and was a stand-by for that series but was never called up, however producers decided to use her for the upcoming celebrity version of the show. Chantelle Houghton entered the house on day one and became the first non-celebrity to enter Celebrity Big Brother. Chantelle Houghton was told by Big Brother her cover story was that she was a member of a fictional band called Kandy Floss. According to Big Brother, Houghton was the lead singer. Their singles were “I Want It Right Now”, “Come Back” and “More More More”. “I Want It Right Now” was their biggest hit. Had Chantelle Houghton failed to convince them, Chantelle Houghton would have been evicted from the house. Chantelle Houghton successfully fooled her housemates and survived to the end of the show. In her Big Brother profile page Chantelle Houghton described she is a “pretty, bright, blonde” (despite not being a natural blonde hair). Chantelle Houghton said, “I look like Paris Hilton, not on purpose but it’s just the way it turned out”. Chantelle Houghton has since been nicknamed “Paris Travelodge”, implying a poor woman’s version of Paris Hilton.

On 8 January (day four), Big Brother set a task to the group to rate themselves by how famous they thought they were. The celebrity they thought was the most famous stood on the #1 podium and the person they considered the least famous stood on the #11 podium. Chantelle Houghton had to avoid being put in the #11 podium to prove she had fooled the real celebrities that she was famous and to stay in the house. Chantelle Houghton survived the task, being chosen to stand on the #9 podium, ahead of Preston and Maggot. Chantelle Houghton was then called to the diary room to discuss her identity with Big Brother. This was simultaneously shown on a television screen in the lounge, in front of the other housemates.

Chantelle Houghton was nominated for eviction on day 21, but was saved from eviction by the public as the other two nominees (George Galloway and Dennis Rodman) left the house in a double eviction. While in the house, Chantelle Houghton established close bonds with Jodie Marsh and Preston of The Ordinary Boys.

Chantelle Houghton won the show on 27 January with 56.4% of the public vote, ahead of Michael Barrymore on 22.7%, earning her £25,000 (the celebrities were reportedly paid fees of up to £150,000 each).

In her media career, Chantelle Houghton’s mother stated she was to be represented by publicist Max Clifford. However, he replied on TV that she has not signed with him but he did ‘help out in an advisory position’. Chantelle Houghton is said to have £500,000 worth of offers for modelling, TV appearances and interviews. Clifford believes that her fame would be brief but explosive: “I think it will be a very exciting five or 10 minutes. Maybe we can stretch it to 15″. Chantelle Houghton has also appeared on The Paul O’Grady Show and is good friends with former Big Brother contestant Chanelle Hayes. Chantelle Houghton also had her own post Big Brother show called Chantelle: Living the Dream. Chantelle Houghton’s first magazine cover was weekly celebrity magazine, Sneak magazine.

Chantelle Houghton has appeared as a guest on several TV shows since winning Celebrity Big Brother. These include: # The Friday Night Project on February 10, and February 17, 2006 as a co-presenter to Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins, replacing Debra Stephenson, due to her heavy filming schedule for Coronation Street. # Channel 4′s 8 Out of 10 Cats, as a contestant on March 10, 2006. # ITV1′s The Mint, as a beautiful guest. # BBC’s The Weakest Link, as a contestant on May 5, 2006, which also featured sometime reality TV stars Michael Barrymore and Russell Grant; and Big Brother’s Big Mouth on August 17, 2006, during the final week of the seventh series of Big Brother. # CBBC’s Comic Relief does Beat the Boss, alongside Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne and comedian Joe Pasquale. # ITV1′s Call Me a Cabbie as a trainee on 2007. # BBC TV Drama Hotel Babylon as the girlfriend of Chris Moyles. and # BBC Three’s Snog Marry Avoid? on February 16, 2009.

Chantelle Houghton in May 2006 signed a £300,000 deal with Random House to publish her autobiography. It was released on October 2006 called Living the Dream which sold 50,000 copies. Extracts from the book were read out by Simon Amstell on the February 14, 2007 edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks which caused Preston, who was a guest on the show, to walk off the set. Chantelle Houghton came second in The Independent’s ‘Britain’s Happiest People’ list.

Chantelle Houghton was nominated in the Most Popular TV Contender category at the 2006 National Television Awards, but was beaten by Nikki Grahame, herself a former Big Brother contestant. Chantelle Houghton has written several columns in magazines, most notably OK!’s BB7 columnist and NEW ‘s BB8 columnist. Before becoming NEW ‘s BB8 columnist Chantelle Houghton had another column in NEW magazine entitled “I Want It Right Now” in which Chantelle Houghton shared make up and fashion tips.

(Chantelle Houghton Profile and Biography source: MadeMan.com, Zimbio.Com, FanPix.Net, and Wikipedia.Org)

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