[Locke.]

The goldfish has gone to a better plaice...

We're accustomed to housemates making a bid for freedom but most of time they manage to make it out of the door. But one member of the Big Brother House has swam off for good. It's our first casualty series - one of the goldfish has left the building. At least it didn't get flushed down the loo.

"It's not your fault, you tried your best," comforted Kat as Rachel glumly made her way to the Diary Room with the dead fish. "You've been with it the whole morning."

"Let's cook it!" suggested Mohamed, possibly earning himself a battering.

"He's dead, Rex. He's totally gone," Rachel told Rex crabbily as he peered into a little cup that contained the ex-fish.

"I'm just gutted, I keep thinking if I did something different..." Rachel sobbed in the Diary Room. Doesn't she know you can't do anything about acts of cod?

"Look after him please, it's a sad day. It just looks like he was unable to survive the Big Brother House. I don't blame him," said Mikey in the little room. You're telling us. "We done the best to give him medicine and by this morning it was too late, we were counting the hours away." Maybe it was just time for it to go up to the big fish pond in the sky.

Big Brother comforted Rachel and instructed to bring the other fish too. Hopefully it wasn't off to join it's sole-mate, just yet...

For the record, no fish were harmed in the making of this story.

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/n...31&position=34