Rachel

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RACHEL RICE
Age: 20
From: Torfaen, Wales
Occupation: English and Drama student, trainee teacher

Another trainee teacher here, and she's a former child actor once performing alongside Hugh Grant in Night Train to Venice when she was just eight years old.

She stopped acting on the advice of Grant who encouraged her to get a full education.

She was runner-up to Big Brother 7's Imogen Thomas in a Miss Wales competition.

She describes herself as a pretty, intelligent alpha female.

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Rachel is convinced Big Brother are hiding a secret garden in the grounds of the house.

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A secret house, then a secret garden. These housemates are already bloody paranoid!

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Alexandra launched a scathing attack on Rachel this morning.

After discovering Rachel had cooked four tins of spaghetti to share among some of the other Big Brother housemates, Alex lashed out at the trainee teacher.

Alex had told the group she was going to cook breakfast for them last night, and became incensed when she saw Rachel had beaten her to it.

Argumentative Alex became even more enraged when she realised some of the food had been left, calling Rachel a "stupid girl."

She said: "Did you have to cook it all? All four tins?"

When Rachel replied she thought people could re-heat it, Alex muttered: "I'm not gonna argue with you, you're not worth it."

She later said: "It's minging, putting on loads of spaghetti and reheating it. That's how tramps live. What's the point?

"Should've just waited for me to make breakfast as planned from Monday. Doesn't demonstrate common sense, does it?"

Rachel retreated to the bathroom, where Dennis tried to comfort her by saying: "I'm not eating her fucking dough balls anyway."


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Mario, Lisa and Luke bitched about Rachel this morning.

Lisa instigated the trio's gossip session by complaining Rachel continually interrupts people, and in a surprising twist Mario and Luke admitted they preferred loudmouthed Alexandra.

Lisa said: "Alexandra asked me something and Rachel just came along and comes in between you. She'll just walk up and start talking."

Mario seconded his girlfriend's thoughts on the Welsh trainee teacher, saying: "She's in and out of people's pockets, and that's not genuine."

Even mild-mannered Luke stuck his oar in, saying: "I think she's almost obnoxiously nice. It's in your face, happy all the time. Deluded."

Mario agreed: "She doesn't face reality. She's gone into denial."

The self-styled stud then commented on Alex, saying: "I'll give Alex her credibility, she speaks her mind and I like that."

In total agreement, Luke replied: "I like Alex. If she has a problem she'll tell you to your face."

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Mario and Lisa are convinced Rachel is on a secret mission.

The loved-up pair started chatting about Rachel in the garden this afternoon and soon convinced themselves the Welsh housemate was undergoing a special task for Big Brother.

The couple were so sure they had "rumbled" Rachel they rushed off to the Diary Room to confront Big Brother, although Lisa soon started to wonder if they were being "paranoid."

In the Diary Room, Lisa said: "We're starting to get a bit suspicious about Rachel. Wherever we go, Rachel goes. There's a lot of intensity there."

Mario added: "Either she's up for a task or she's being a massive flirt with me. We've both agreed that we think Rachel may have been given a task to flirt with myself and possibly cause a bit of a divide between Lisa and I."

Later, Lisa brought up the subject of Rachel again, saying to Mario: "It's got to the point it's dead obvious, but you haven't said anything to me."

She then accused her boyfriend of being in on the task and said she might go to Big Brother with her suspicions.

Mario laughed off the accusation, insisting he found Rachel "a little bit annoying."

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Housemate Rachel proved she's no animal expert today when she asked if llamas have two heads.

The Welsh trainee teacher who is dressed in a two-headed llama costume along with Kathreya for this week's Big Brother Zoo shopping task might not be able to teach her future pupils much about animals.

she made the comment during a discussion with Mohamed, Darnell and Rex earlier today.

She said: "Llamas aren't joined together, are they?"

Darnell - who is dressed as a rabbit and has to eat carrots every 15 minutes for the test - laughed and said: "No. I should throw a carrot at you!"

As Rex continued laughing at her, an embarrassed Rachel tried to defend her comment by replying: "I just wondered where they got the idea for a two-headed llama, that's all."

Still trying to clarify her point, she continued: "They now know how rabbits feel because they're eating food like rabbits. You're going to know how kangaroos feel because they box, and then they're going to know how seals feel because they get water chucked on them.

"So I was just wondering, how does this help us know how llamas feel?"

Darnell suggested the costume was probably just picked from a shop.


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MIKEY and Rachel won the Big Brother Street Art task last night.

The contestants were split into pairs and challenged to draw portraits of new housemates Belinda, Maysoon and Sara and then present their pictures to the rest of the group, being as "expressive" as possible.

Talking about his and Kathreya's work, Stuart said: "We've got Belinda's beautiful golden eyes of a starlet because she's a singing sensation. And we've got all the musical notes coming out of her, er, not big mouth, but her just very, er, not small mouth."

Mario and Lisa then took to the stage, but their presentation got off to a bad start when Mario mistakenly called Belinda "Melinda".

Next up, Rebecca and Luke - who was covered in fake tan - said their theme had been orange.

Luke said: "It's very obvious that the theme of today is orange. So we decided to adopt that theme into our paintings, because we want to incorporate you three into our group."

Finally, Rachel and Mikey took to the stage, where Mikey said: "Ours is a very abstract representation. Sara did offer for me to feel her breasts, but I thought that was kind of taking advantage of my disability."

The new housemates conferred before announcing Mikey and Rachel had won.

The pair received a token from Big Brother as a prize.

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Rachel fears things are about to kick off in the house.

The sweet-natured Welsh beauty told Big Brother in a Diary Room chat this afternoon how worried she is about her fellow housemates clashing when the eviction result are announced tomorrow.

She said: "I think something's going to happen tomorrow night in the eviction. I'm a little bit worried about it to be honest.

"Mario's sort of hinting that if he's evicted, he'll be saying exactly what he thinks about everyone, and then he was saying it to Bex as well, and she's going to do the same thing."

The trainee teacher told Big Brother she was frightened other housemates would stand up for themselves and cause a conflict.

She said: "To be honest, with me, it's just gonna go over my head but I know some people in the house have the tendency to stand up for themselves or argue back.

"I'm just worried that things could get a little bit sweary when it's live."

She added: "I'm a little bit upset about it too, because I like Mario. I've always liked Mario. I think he's very clever, and I hope that he doesn't disappoint me and prove everyone else right."

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Rachel got angry with her fellow heavenly housemates in the early hours of the morning.

The group - Darnell, Dale, Mohamed, Kathreya, Maysoon and Rex - decided to liven up things in the luxury bedroom by having a pillow fight, but accidentally spilt water on some of Rachel's treasured photographs.

Realising a picture on her dog and one of her boyfriend had been damaged, Rachel said: "Oh guys. I'm getting annoyed now."

Not taking her seriously, Rex said his whole bed was wet from the water.

Rachel continued: "I can't believe you guys got my photos. Oh my gosh!"

She than asked the others if they thought Big Brother would get her copies.

Unsympathetic Rex commented housemates should hide things if they didn't want them to get ruined.

A resigned Rachel replied: "Alright, it doesn't matter, you horrible baddy bees."

After the fight, Kat claimed her head was banging and she could see stars.

She added: "I'm properly sweating. Oh my God!"

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Rachel broke down in tears this morning.

The Welsh beauty began crying after a cap on one of her teeth came loose, because she fears she may have to leave the Big Brother house in order to visit a dentist.

After going to the Diary Room to tell Big Brother about her problem tooth, she wailed: "Big Brother is going to seek urgent medical advice. I don't want to leave!"

The rules of the show state contestants can seek limited medical treatment, but prolonged attention may lead to eviction. Seeing how upset Rachel was, Luke decided to offer some advice.

He said: "Just try not to talk."

Meanwhile, Rex - who is up for eviction along with Belinda - also visited the Diary Room this morning and admitted the threat of going home had been playing on his mind.

Asked how he felt, chef Rex replied: "Super duper - yeah, feeling great. I can't wait to go home. Only joking. I couldn't sleep last night, so I'm probably going to be falling asleep quite a lot today."

Talking about the eviction, he said: "I don't think anyone - apart from Kathreya - is bothered who goes. I stayed up until five in the morning thinking about who was going to be there for me when I leave."

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