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If you all want a good autobiography to read, id recommend Jodie Marsh's. It was brill. My first time reading someones autobiography and i loved it! I would recommend this to people. I doubt knowone is interested:bored:

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Originally posted by BB-Rocks
If you all want a good autobiography to read, id recommend Jodie Marsh's. It was brill. My first time reading someones autobiography and i loved it! I would recommend this to people. I doubt knowone is interested:bored:

Grrrr Jodie Marsh :mad:

I read Chantelle's book and to be honest it's a shame it was being sold as an autobiography.I think even as a story of her bb experience alone it was worth reading.
It has a good recap of her time in the house aswell as some of her life before and after cbb.
I did think she was too young to be doing her life story when I first heard she was but I knew I was always going to buy it because I like her:hugesmile:
and I really enjoyed it :hello:
I think if it had just been sold as her BB story people would give it more of a chance even if they weren't fans of hers.
I hope it does well.I'd much rather read a story by a normal nice girl than read 6 books by Jordan or jodie about their sex lives:shocked::tongue:

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Originally posted by BB-Rocks
If you all want a good autobiography to read, id recommend Jodie Marsh's.

I'll get it if I run out of loo roll:thumbs:

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Originally posted by chilledbootz

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Originally posted by BB-Rocks
If you all want a good autobiography to read, id recommend Jodie Marsh's.

I'll get it if I run out of loo roll:thumbs:

Hahahaha :laugh:

i bought chantelles book today and im going next saturday to get it signed in lakeside cant wait :hello:

I started reading Chantelle's book last night. I'm glad it starts right from the beginning of her life not just the big brother stage. I'm more interested in what she did before to be honest because we all know what happened in the house and afterwards.

I got it for my birthday and i read the whole book in one day - its wicked and she looks lovely in the pictures especially the ones of her and preston.

I'm reading it for the third time now and i've just had it over a week!

I really hope i can go to a book signing i'd love to meet her x

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Originally posted by Jay
If she wasn't in CBB she would have a book out? i don't think so :nono:, i don't class her as a celeb :shocked:

good point

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Originally posted by pinkprincess2k6
I got it for my birthday and i read the whole book in one day - its wicked and she looks lovely in the pictures especially the ones of her and preston.

I'm reading it for the third time now and i've just had it over a week!

I really hope i can go to a book signing i'd love to meet her x

3 times!! I only just finished my second yesterday! Ooh I should be ashamed. I'll re-read again soon.

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agree im not mad keen on her but i couldnt put the book down

Book not selling well apparently...

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Overpriced lives of the stars flop in bookshops
04.12.06

She may have had plenty of success on TV, but when it came to her autobiography Billie Piper was a flop — and she wasn't the only one.

Stars such as Jack Osbourne, Michael Barrymore and David Hasselhoff have seen their autobiographies head straight to the bookshop bargain bins since they were published this autumn.

Their books, for which they were paid advances ranging from £100,000 to £500,000, have failed to scrape into the top 20 bestsellers.

It is thought publishers were hoping to duplicate the success of Sharon Osbourne. The X Factor judge and wife of rocker Ozzy became the surprise publishing sensation of the past 12 months.

Her life story, Extreme, has sold almost 900,000 copies to date, making it the biggest-selling autobiography of all time.

But the memoirs that have flopped in her wake have left publishers counting the cost of the huge advances they paid to their writers.

Actor Rupert Everett was paid a £1 million advance for his autobiography Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins. However, it has failed to enter the top 20 non-fiction chart.

His book has been reduced to £11.39 on Amazon, down from its recommended retail price of £18.99. So far he has recorded only 20,000 sales.

Big Brother winner Chantelle's Living The Dream has sold even fewer and been slashed from £16.99 to £10.19.

Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said: “It's been a gamble for the publishers. People saw Sharon Osbourne's book did very, very well and they wanted to follow that trend, but many of the new titles have not done very well.

“Many of them will sell less than 10,000 copies and some publishers will definitely lose money.”

However, one celebrity whose autobiography is selling well is comedian Peter Kay. His book, The Sound Of Laughter, has already sold more than 245,000 copies.

Victoria Beckham's That Extra Half An Inch is at number five in the top 50 with sales of 206,000 and chef Gordon Ramsay's Humble Pie, which has sold more than 109,000 copies, is at number nine.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbi...ops/article.do

Hmm I knew I should have bought like 20 :tongue:I kid. It is a good book but the probelm I think why people aren't buying it is it isn't juicy at all. She doesn't give much away(I'm on my 3rd re-read so I would know :blush2:) as Chantelle says its just like 'a modern day fairytale' when people just went people likes Jordans who go on about things like the size of her husbands you know what :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Princess
Hmm I knew I should have bought like 20 :tongue:I kid. It is a good book but the probelm I think why people aren't buying it is it isn't juicy at all. She doesn't give much away(I'm on my 3rd re-read so I would know :blush2:) as Chantelle says its just like 'a modern day fairytale' when people just went people likes Jordans who go on about things like the size of her husbands you know what :rolleyes:

you clearly missed the other reasons katie prices auto's are popular.
theres alot more in that book beside petes big shlong.

katies and sharons are THE BEST autobiographys ive read,and ive read alot

Here's a comment about the Chantelle book that appeared in a piece about celeb-bios in the Telegraph...

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By Jan Moir
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 29/11/2006

Whatever you may think, it is not easy being a D-list celebrity. Chantelle Houghton went through suicidal hell before being catapulted to a certain kind of fame when she won Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 4 earlier this year. In Living The Dream, her autobiography rushed out for the Christmas market, the 23-year-old reveals that, boy, oh boy, did she have it rough in the early days. "Who do you ring when you've called every model agency in Essex and they don't want to take you on?" she wails in chapter four. A plastic surgeon, perhaps?

Still, mum was a brick, especially when the melodramatic miss wanted to end it all when even Page Three didn't want to know. "Poor Mum. What do you say to your daughter when she tells you that she doesn't want to live any more?" writes Chantelle, before popping around to nan's for egg and chips, and realising that life isn't so bad after all. Know why?

"The thing that made the most difference was plucking my eyebrows when I was 16. I can't imagine why I didn't do it earlier," she concludes.

Good grief. It's not just the banality of this type of celebrity memoir that makes you want to turn your face to the wall and sob, it's the empty predictability that stuns. In a titillating genre practically invented by mercenary topless model Jordan, the format remains the same; after the loving but troubled childhood comes the glossing of attributes, the plug for the new product, the false modesty and then the loud, squelching sound as the wannabe milks it for all its worth. And all this from kids who have little experience of real life — or the intellectual resources to cope with it even if they did.....

Full article HERE

Thanks James. See this is why I read tabloids. They can be mean but at least they use small words :rolleyes: And its Chantelle Preston. PRESTON damn it!!!!!

well I finished the book today and I liked it Its only short but its a good read if you like Chantelle and theres a lot about CBB in it too

Great book. Had to go back to the library today. Boo.
But its a fantastic read!

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Originally posted by Chrizzle
Great book. Had to go back to the library today. Boo.
But its a fantastic read!

Buy it! :tongue:

yeah it might be in the sale
I liked readng the bits at the beginning just before CBB too

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Originally posted by chilledbootz

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Originally posted by BB-Rocks
If you all want a good autobiography to read, id recommend Jodie Marsh's.

I'll get it if I run out of loo roll:thumbs:

Ohhh my sides hurt with laughter!:rolleyes:

TBH I'd rather read Jodies