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Phone voting during Celebrity Big Brother raised almost half a million for various charities, Channel 4 has confirmed.

A total of 3 million votes were cast over the course of the 23 days, with 32% of all revenues going to good causes.

Approximately £480,000 will now be divided equally amongst the housemates' chosen charities, regardless of where they finished in the competition.

Meanwhile, Chantelle triumphed last night with 56.4% of votes in the final vote reading, versus Michael's 43.6%.

At the time of the earlier vote readings, Maggot had 23.5% to finish third, Preston had 16.7% to finish fourth, Pete had 13.6% to finish fifth and Traci had 5.3% to finish sixth.