Chantell quids in after win

Jan 29 2006 By The Sunday Sun

Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton is on her way to making a fortune after being signed up by a talent agency.

Her deal came within hours of confounding pre-show expectations and defeating all of the show's "real" celebrities.

The previously unknown 22-year-old joined the roster of John Noel Management, which already represents the show's host Davina McCall and ex-contestants Jade Goody and Craig Phillips.

PR guru Max Clifford predicted the blonde Paris Hilton lookalike, who won viewers' hearts with her down-to-earth personality, could "easily" earn £1m over the coming year.

Chantelle told a post-show Press conference: "First, I will be able to pay the debts I owe my mum.

"Once that's out of the way I don't know, go shopping, make up, clothes, orange lipstick . . . I need one of them, I love that. I've got to make sure I get a stock of that.

"I would like to take my mum and everyone on holiday because that would be a nice thing to do."

Mr Clifford - who said he had decided not to represent Chantelle - revealed that magazines had offered hundreds of thousands of pounds for exclusive pictures and interviews of her with fellow housemate Preston, whose on-screen chemistry sparked speculation about a romance.