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From the sun :HOUSEMATES reacted to Chanelle’s shock departure with a mixture of sadness and guilt.

And Sam told Liam that she felt guilty as she should have stopped her friend from leaving.

But the tree-lopper reassured her that Chanelle was too proud to stay in the house after so many threatened departures.

Brain confided to Tracey and David in the caravan that he could relate to Chanelle, and called her ‘precious’.

Meanwhile Carole had to comfort an upset Gerry, who sobbed: “I just didn’t want her to go, if she could have just held on until Friday.”

But the Greek said of his mate: “She would have been here until the end, but she was stressed out with everything and the situation was unbearable.”

A remorseful Ziggy told the others that he wanted to leave the main house and be the housemate to go into the halfway house.

“I feel someone has left on my behalf today, so it feels I’m making amends a little bit,” he said.