Cast your mind back to the so-called 'Celebrity' Big Brother from last year. No, we aren’t thinking of the epic 2007 series where Jade Goody along with her sisterhood of big bad racists said nasty and spiteful things to Shilpa Shetty.

We are thinking of the Celebrity Big Brother from back in the good old days of 2006, when the show was mildly entertaining and didn’t spawn multiple complaints to OFCOM. In what seemed a whirlwind romance, Preston from The Ordinary Boys – the band not quite as good as any other band ever, fell in love with Paris Hilton lookalike Chantelle Houghton. Cue Preston ditching his other bird for Chantelle and getting a quickie marriage. And now that’s all over. 

What made Celebrity Big Brother 2006 a little bit different was that Chantelle was not a real celebrity. Millions of young teenage girls were in an uproar across the country as Big Brother actually tried to make the show more entertaining than licking a cheese grater. Her initial task was to convince the other celebrities in the house that she was somebody famous and not be tagged as the most unimportant celebrity. Chantelle’s perceived background was as a member of fictional band, Candyfloss. Sorry, that’s Kandyfloss "wiv a 'k'” – her annoying catchphrase. But not as annoying as Preston, her annoying Big Brother boyfriend.

Despite many people labelling their relationship as fake, Preston and Chantelle's lust for each other lasted throughout the series of Celebrity Big Brother. And in a non-surprising twist of fate, the non-celebrity in the house only went and ruddy won it!  

After the palaver of being cooped up in a house for a few weeks, the milking opportunity arose and Chantelle Houghton was never bloody away from our screen. From presenting her own TV show which involved her setting up various gawky-looking people with each other, countless magazine shoots in tacky gossip magazines and countless cameos on shows like The Weakest Link, The Mint and 8 Out Of Ten Cats. 

Preston was obviously quite protective of his wife after their wedding last summer. On a recent episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks the singer stormed off the stage after constant insults from host Simon Amstell. But what were these cruel remarks? Well despite being under the tender age of 30, Chantelle somehow managed to spew out an entire autobiography. More than likely detailing the days of when she took off her clothes for money at photoshoots for The Daily Star. Sales of the book have reportedly sold around 5,000. We suggest donating the rest to primary schools to help develop their basic English skills. 

Anyway, somewhat predictably the marriage of Chantelle and Preston is now over. A statement released today by either the unhappy couple or some PR monkey says: 

"After much soul-searching and tearful discussions we have sadly decided to end our marriage. We hope we can always remain friends and still love each other but we both think we put so much pressure on one another to make our marriage work that it has ended up destroying our relationship. No one else is involved in our decision. We know people will think we married too quickly on the back of Big Brother but the truth is that, what anyone thinks, we did have a whirlwind romance but we were genuinely in love with each other at the time and we will never regret our time together."

Hecklerspray isn’t quite sure what this 'pressure' was. Preston ain’t really done much since the release of his last crap singles, and work for his bimbo bride has pretty much dried up too. Their extended fifteen minutes of fame are clearly over. Still, thank god for Ziggy and Chanelle, eh?

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Chantelle And Preston Split – ITV