Preston 'regrets Buzzcocks walkout'

Preston has said that he regrets walking out of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

The ex-Ordinary Boys frontman stormed off the set of the comedy quiz show in 2007 after host Simon Amstell read extracts from the autobiography of his then wife Chantelle Houghton.

Preston told the BBC: "I'm struggling to think why I would have acted so weird. I would love to go on there and show them that I'm not a tantrum-y person.

"I would be destroyed and they would probably show lots of clips and stuff. It was just an uncomfortable situation. [Amstell is] funny, charming and likeable, which made it all the more embarrassing."

He added: "I wanted the floor to swallow up and eat me, so I did the next best thing and ran away, which is terrible, because I'm really not the sort of person to walk away from confrontation, I'm normally the sort of person to talk it out.

"I just regret the fact that I was so young and I handled myself badly, especially in interviews. The more I think about it, the more I realise how wrong I got it the first time around."