21st June 2007
Oxygen of publicity machine switched off on Chantelle and Preston
Chantelle and Preston in happier times |
Describing it as a "very difficult decision", publicist Max Clifford said that with their career being in a gossip-column coma since the end of 2006, it was the "natural thing to do".
"Although last year started well for the couple, with their much-reported April wedding seeing them breathing deeply the tabloid and magazine life force they so need, by the end of 2006 they had dipped below the water line of public consciousness," Mr Clifford told the handful of mourners gathered outside his office.
Paltry
Citing the paltry sales of only 5,000 of Chantelle's October biography, Living the Dream, along with The Ordinary Boys - Preston's band - only touring local festivals this year, Mr Clifford said that "it is clear that they are only being sustained by artificial means".
There had been hopes that they would come out of the gossip column wilderness appearance on the BBC's Hotel Babylon, but her coupling with fellow gobshite Chris Moyles is said to have sullied the "kiss of life" she so needed.
Game
Similarly, Preston's appearance on the highly rated show Never Mind the Buzzcocks had the opposite to the desired effect, with host Simon Amstell reading out extracts from the aforementioned Living the Dream to the effect that Preston exited the show.
The couple are to be cremated at the municipal crematorium with their ashes to scattered across the latest Big Brother house.
A memorial book has been opened up for those who still remember the pair and a plaque will go up on London's South Bank where a special area commemorates fellow fallen, such as Craig David, Caprice and Richard Blackwood.
"Although last year started well for the couple, with their much-reported April wedding seeing them breathing deeply the tabloid and magazine life force they so need, by the end of 2006 they had dipped below the water line of public consciousness," Mr Clifford told the handful of mourners gathered outside his office.
Paltry
Citing the paltry sales of only 5,000 of Chantelle's October biography, Living the Dream, along with The Ordinary Boys - Preston's band - only touring local festivals this year, Mr Clifford said that "it is clear that they are only being sustained by artificial means".
There had been hopes that they would come out of the gossip column wilderness appearance on the BBC's Hotel Babylon, but her coupling with fellow gobshite Chris Moyles is said to have sullied the "kiss of life" she so needed.
Game
Similarly, Preston's appearance on the highly rated show Never Mind the Buzzcocks had the opposite to the desired effect, with host Simon Amstell reading out extracts from the aforementioned Living the Dream to the effect that Preston exited the show.
The couple are to be cremated at the municipal crematorium with their ashes to scattered across the latest Big Brother house.
A memorial book has been opened up for those who still remember the pair and a plaque will go up on London's South Bank where a special area commemorates fellow fallen, such as Craig David, Caprice and Richard Blackwood.
