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Singer and Celebrity Big Brother star Preston has admitted that he found fame "addictive".
The former Ordinary Boys frontman described his reality TV success an "odd beast", which he has struggled to leave behind.
"It's really addictive. It really is," he said. "Even if you don't really want it, as soon as it goes, you're just like, 'What's wrong with me? Why don't you love me anymore?'... And when you allow yourself to enjoy it and to revel in it, it's just the most exhilarating thing."
Speaking about his tabloid romance with fellow Big Brother contestant Chantelle Houghton, he confessed that he had failed to spot the "absurdity" of their relationship during his year-long marriage.
"It was a bit of a whirlwind," he told The Observer. "I don't know. Things seem to move faster when they're being written about in the tabloids.
"It did make sense in a way. I was the rock star with the eye-candy wife. But of course, I wasn't a rock star. I was in a little indie band. And she wasn't a supermodel, she was a Page 3 model. It was [the] Primark version."
However, he did praise his former wife, who he described as a "natural beauty".
"I was madly in love with her," he said. "She has this huge natural beauty. But she covers it up so well. She uses the same tricks ugly girls use, like tanning yourself orange and bleaching your hair. But when she'd just woken up in the mornings, when she's just totally natural she looks like Brigitte Bardot - she's gorgeous."
Preston releases his debut solo single 'Dressed To Kill' on August 23.
