Big Brother’s Chantelle Houghton has recalled Jimmy Savile’s creepy comments (Picture: REX/Channel 4)
Big Brother icon Chantelle Houghton has revealed she’s still haunted by Jimmy Savile’s creepy comments to her.
The former glamour model appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2006, where she won £25,000 after convincing the likes of Michael Barrymore and Pete Burns that she was actually famous.
That series also saw a brief appearance by Savile, who entered on Day 10 and introduced himself to the housemates wearing his signature red tracksuit and glasses.
He was sent into the iconic house with a task to ‘fix it’, in reference to his hit BBC show, and provided the contestants with various gifts, including a pampering kit for basketball player Dennis Rodman.
He also made several inappropriate comments, and at one point immediately after entering the house, took Chantelle by the hand and kissed it twice.
He told her that he would love her with ‘sincerity and tenderness’ and pledged to marry each woman in the house ‘for at least 24 hours’.
Savile entered the iconic Big Brother house in 2006 (Picture: Channel 4)
He made several inappropriate comments (Picture: Channel 4)
He then added to his comments by saying, ‘I always tell the truth even when I’m lying,’ and told actress Rula Lenska that she was ‘far prettier in the flesh’.
When Chantelle said she needed an earring fixed, Savile replied: ‘My place or yours.’
Savile died aged 84 in 2011, just under a year before his numerous sexual crimes were exposed as part of Operation Yewtree – police spoke to hundreds of victims.
Chantelle has now reflected on the experience meeting Savile, saying it makes her ‘blood run cold’.
In a new interview, the 40-year-old said: ‘Obviously back then, no one knew anything, so it was a bit of a “wow” moment, him coming in.
‘It was Sir Jimmy Savile, wasn’t it? The excitement in the house, when he walked through, was just electric. He was this iconic guy, it was just exciting.’
Savile died aged 84 in 2011, a year before his crimes were revealed (Picture: Channel 4)
He was sent into the house to meet the housemates (Picture: Channel 4)
‘It literally makes my blood run cold.’ (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
She added that at the time it felt like an ‘absolute honour’ to meet the ‘funny’ and ‘charming’ Savile.
‘Everybody was sitting there hanging off of his every word, and you could see how, especially Michael Barrymore, Preston and Pete Burns, they were mesmerised by him.’
Chantelle continued to The Sun: ‘Now, obviously, we know what and who he really was, it literally makes my blood run cold.
‘But it also makes my blood boil, because I wish I’d known what he was then and I really wish that he’d known that we’d all know who he was, before he died.’
She continued: ‘It’s just really creepy and I feel pretty disgusted that I’ve even been in his presence, that he’s kissed my hand and said them vile things to me.’
She concluded to The Sun: ‘I think he’s a f*****g paedo pervert and I hope he rots in hell with those poor worms eating his eyes.’
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‘It literally makes my blood run cold.’