Violence erupts in Big Brother house

Emma is missing, with rumours she has quit, after fighting erupted in the Big Brother house last night.

10:41 17 June 2004

Emma is missing, with rumours she has quit, after fighting erupted in the Big Brother house last night.

While producers had hoped to ruffle some feathers with the re-introduction of bedsit buddies Emma and Michelle, things went mad last night.

The violence reached the stage where housemates were separated into two groups - one locked in the bedroom - and security guards were visible inside the house.

At around one in the morning, simmering tensions erupted into violence.

Jason flipped the table in the living area and began yelling at Nadia, she replied in kind.

At the same time Jason shouted "I'll f*****g take your head off," at Emma.

At this point things escalated further while the live feed cut to an outside shot.

"Never f**k with me, Emma!" shouted Victor, and plates were heard smashing (Ahmed was nowhere near).

"You ain't f*****g s**t to me," yelled Victor as he was called to the diary room. "I'll f*****g show you!"

Big Brother cut the live feed, and the internet feed for more than an hour at this point, and when things resumed we were left to piece things together.

Emma explained to Dan: "He's [Victor] f*****g called me racist..", she added that she had seen "Slick" manipulate nominations.

Dan replied that he had not seen it.

"Dan, just trust me. I'm not going to tell you, but I've seen it with my own f*****g eyes," Emma replied.

Before she disappeared Emma gave some details as to what happened.

"I would not start a f*****g fight for no reason. Let me just say, he's been bad mouthing me . . . He just pushed me . . He started it - he poured wine over me. If Big Brother wants me to go, I'll stand my f*****g ground."

Nadia also appears to have been involved.

"Who defended me in the end?" she asked.

Luckily she had a knight in shining armour.

"I f*****g defended you!" said Marco, adding: "I thought Victor was going to destroy Emma."

"That's why I stepped in," added Dan.

"I was trying to separate Emma from Victor while keeping my distance from Jay," says Marco.

Worryingly Emma has not been seen, and rumours coming from witnesses outside the Big Brother house say that not only was a paramedic car parked outside in the early hours of the morning - but that someone has exited the house with their head covered.

The housemates do not seem to know what is going on either.

As dawn broke Nadia said to Dan "I hope Emma's okay."

Dan summed up the mood in the house in the early hours of this morning.

"It wasn't a game show, it was appalling . . . They've got to seriously consider where we go from here."

"I don't know if I'll treat people the same tomorrow," added Marco.