A huge fight has broken out in the house, after Emma and Victor had a clash of words. The cameras immediately cut to the garden view, but shouting, swearing and plate/glass smashing could be heard, before the sound was also cut.

Once the sound came back up there was still raised voices, and the housemates trying to restrain the main culprits of the fight, with Big Brother making a very urgent sounding announcement about Victor being told he must go to the diary room immediately.

Eventually the cameras returned to the in-house view, showing Victor still arguing with a clearly upset and red-faced Emma, but eventually the housemates managed to force Victor in to the diary room - it'd appear that Vanessa and Jay have also gone in.

Emma, Michelle, Nadia, Marco and Dan were then shown talking in the bedroom, and the next moment Shell was laying on the floor saying she was about to be sick, and she went in to the shower room.

And since then, it'd appear that someone on the Big Brother crew has hit the panic button, as both the Channel 4 live show and the E4 live coverage has been on a constant loop of cut-in footage showing various house items such as the statue, a camera, the hose, etc... E4 also went for an extended advert break during this time, which was longer than Channel 4's own advert break which is usually longer, but on return remained to be the inserted imagery instead of live feed.

It'd appear that the violence in the house has caused BB to pull the plug, at least for now. Never before has Big Brother quite seen something kick off on quite this scale. There's been fights before, but this really is something else.

Read more about the fight, and the aftermarth in our special HoC Forum thread...