Fake star beats fallen star in Big Brother finale

NON-CELEBRITY Chantelle Houghton last night beat entertainer Michael Barrymore to win Celebrity Big Brother.

The Essex girl wiped away tears as her name was called out. “Oh my God, I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to say,” she said.

After 23 gruelling days of tears, tantrums and the odd cat impression, the last of the housemates were picked off in a series of quick-fire expulsions.

Traci Bingham smiled and laughed as host Davina McCall informed her she was the first of the “dirty half-dozen” survivors to fall foul of the public vote.

Then she tottered through the house on high heels to be cheered by the crowds as she emerged.

Singer Preston was out next to finish fourth.

Asked how the boos from the audience made him feel, ’80s pop star Pete Burns replied: “I’m thrilled by the boos because it shows I’ve still got what it takes to make people think about something.”

He was quizzed on if it upset him not to have won. “I’m thrilled to be here. I was gutted to be in there.”

As the crowd chanted, “Off! off!”, Pete shouted: “Don’t you wish, bitches.”

Pete said he wouldn’t do Big Brother again “unless they paid me 25 times as much”. He said he was “clinically depressed” at the prospect of his biggest hit, You Spin Me Round, being re-released. Asked what he had learned he said: “I learnt how to go without sex for three weeks.”

Welsh rapper Maggot came third.