Celebrity Big Brother star Chantelle says her marriage to Preston ended because she loathed living in Brighton and Hove.

The 23-year-old moved to the city when she married the Ordinary Boys singer last year.

The couple met on the reality show last year and wed following a whirlwind romance.

They revealed they were splitting up last month.

Speaking for the first time about their break-up Chantelle said: "The truth is I found living in Brighton very hard. My life had changed and it was a time when I needed familiar things around me.

"And being in Brighton I had nothing. I had no family, no friends and it was a really hard."

The marriage lasted ten months but Chantelle believes she and Preston could have made a go of it if they had moved to London.

In the interview with a glossy celebrity magazine she added: "I do believe that if we'd lived in London things would have been better."

Chantelle Houghton, a former promotions girl, and Preston, full name Samuel Preston, met on the show in January 2006.

She was planted in the Celebrity Big Brother house as a "fake celebrity" and went on to win the show.

They announced their engagement in April and tied the knot in August.

The couple sold the rights to their wedding day to a glossy magazine.

They lived in a flat in Cambridge Road, Hove, before they broke up.

After the couple split they said in a joint statement: "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."

The couple insisted their relationship was genuine and denied they had rushed into marriage.

The statement went on: "We know people will think we married too quickly on the back of Big Brother but the truth is that, whatever 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.

"We both believe in marriage and we never treated our vows or our commitment to each other lightly.

"We've spent hours and hours discussing whether we can salvage our marriage, give it another go, try harder, anything rather than give up.

"But we now both agree that we should go our separate ways. We are both young and we still have our lives in front of us. The last two weeks or so have been very upsetting and sad for us and our friends and family and we appreciate their support."

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