Chantelle Houghton breaks her silence on ex-husband Preston's 2007 Never Mind The Buzzcocks walkout as she admits she was 'touched' he defended her from 'disrespectful' jibe

Chantelle Houghton has spoken about her ex-husband Preston's famous Never Mind The Buzzcocks walkout for the first time.The former Celebrity Big Brother star was married to the Ordinary Boys singer for ten months after they met on the Channel 4 show.Preston famously stormed off the set when Buzzcocks presenter Simon Amstell began reading extracts from Chantelle's autobiography in a mocking fashion.Chantelle has now shared that she was 'touched' Preston defended her from the 'disrespectful' jibes, as she felt the presenter was trying to 'make a fool of her'.Preston and Chantelle split less than a year after they married, with the star confessing they were 'too different' to make the relationship work.The star admitted in the interview they should 'never have married' each other, and she has since found the love of her life with a man out of the public eye. Chantelle Houghton has spoken about her ex-husband Preston's famous Never Mind The Buzzcocks walkout for the first timeSpeaking on Paul C Brunson's We Need To Talk podcast, Chantelle said: 'So I'd written an autobiography... me and Preston are very different, things that I think are posh and upmarket, he wouldn't.'Preston went on this TV show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and I was in the green room, I was in the waiting room, watching him on there. And the presenter decided to pick up my autobiography and start reading snippets of it out.'And, yeah they did sound embarrassing, and it was cringeworthy, and it was making a fool of me, and Preston was obviously just expected to sit there and listen to it. 'I was so touched that he got up and walked out because actually, the presenter was just disrespecting me.'But he got so much backlash for doing that, he got so much backlash for walking out, but he just didn't want to sit there and listen to his wife be disrespected. I really appreciated what he did.'After Preston walked out, a BBC spokesman said: 'It's a shame Preston felt he had to leave. Fans will know Simon loves to banter with his guests. 'It's the nature of the show - and it's not meant in a mean way.'Preston famously stormed off the set when presenter Simon Amstell began reading extracts from Chantelle's autobiography in a mocking fashion Footage from the episode showed Preston furiously storming off, and in a recent interview, the singer said Simon's remarks were 'cruel and classist'Preston has also previously addressed the incident, saying in 2009: 'I'm struggling to think why I would have acted so weird.'He called the show's host Simon 'funny, charming and likeable, which made it all the more embarrassing'.But in January 2026, Preston said he saw his decision to storm out as a 'proud moment', telling The Guardian: 'It was actually cruel and classist. I really don’t know what other choice I had.'During the podcast, Chantelle shared she has found love with a new boyfriend after two years of celibacy.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.'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 January 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 2012.She also dated former Crimewatch host Rav Wilding, before they were pictured having a blazing row which led to them splitting up in 2012.