Celebrity Big Brother star Chantelle Houghton has admitted that she still has 'chemistry' with her ex-husband Samuel Preston.
The two met when they walked into the Big Brother house in 2006 and immediately clicked.
She announced her engagement to the 40-year-old in April 2006 and the two got married in August that same year at Dartmouth House in Mayfair, London.
Ten months later, in mid-2007, they announced in a joint statement that they were ending their marriage.
The TV personality, 38, was recently asked whether the two could ever reunite.
She told Daily Star : "Do you know what, I did a photoshoot with Preston a couple of years ago and I hadn't seen him for 10 years and there was still that chemistry between us. There was still something there, and I think there always will be.
"But we've grown and gone our separate ways, and sadly there will be no reconciliation and no second wedding."
She added: "But I still love him, I've got so much love for him and I always will have."
The TV personality previously discussed her relationship with the Ordinary Boys frontman and said it 'wasn't a failed marriage'.
She even invited Preston to her wedding to fiancé Michael Strutt before she was heartbroken when they called it off last year.
Chantelle told fans that she and Preston regularly keep in touch and still have a lot of love for each other.
Almost 15 years on, Chantelle confirmed that she and Preston "will always be friends" when she was quizzed on whether or not the pair were still in touch.
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“We text every few months or something like that. We’ll always be friends.
"We’ve got such special memories together and have inside jokes no one else would get,” she told new magazine.
Chantelle also added the former couple still have the same connection they had more than 15 years ago and claimed: “I don’t look at it as a failed marriage because I was 21 and we were in a crazy world back then.”
She said their union didn’t feel like a “real-life marriage”, but she gave hope to a possible reconciliation between her and Preston as she said she would “love to do it again”.
Chantelle said their marriage was “completely real”, and she loved the rocker “wholeheartedly”.
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