"That's just CRUEL!" said Wizard.

He was looking really angry now - pacing up and down the floor of Dot's bedroom, his feathery tail swishing from side to side, growling away.

I can only say, it's lucky Brian Mallow didn't come into Barking Avenue that day. He'd've had a VERY large hole in the back of his trousers if he'd tried. If he was lucky, that is! Wiz has got a VERY nasty bite - he doesn't use it often, but when he does - call 999!

"I keep telling ya" said Mr Mouse. "It's showbiz! Nothing personal! It's like that Liz Hurley said - you can't have fashion without victims! It's the same in the world of showbiz!"

"It STILL sounds really horrible, though!" said Dot. "Where ON EARTH did he get that idea from?"

"Oh, I don't know!" said Mr Mouse. "Anyways - we had to try and do it!"

It sounds really hard to believe - but THIS was the Fifth Test, to win Rodent Roundup and become a star. It was all about eating, if you can believe that.

What Brian Mallow showed Cousin Esure and Mr Mouse was this.

There was a long long string of liquorice lying on the floor of the Netplain (Ugh! I hear you say. Well... personally, I like liquorice, actually, but lots of people don't!) In the middle of the string was a box. What each of the contestants had to do - and no, I'm really not joking! - was eat up the string from each end, as fast as possible, to get to the box in the middle. But if you didn't eat as fast as your competitor the string would get longer. And longer. And longer! So you had to eat more and more to get to the box.

Inside the box was a golden key - the key that unlocked your starring role as the top rodent on the fab esure.com TV commercials!

Fame, stretch limos, a luxury home in California, a private jet - all this could be yours, but only if you got to the box first.

By eating more and more and more liquorice.

And you know what liquorice does to you, don't you?

You don't??

Well... it's a laxative... makes you want to got to the loo. VERY VERY QUICKLY!!!

If you could get there before the Big Blue Flash, that is!!!!

"But that's... that's just DISGUSTING!" said Wizard. "He made you eat so much stuff that you'd have a mega-poo! The man is SICK! SICK SICK SICKO!!!"

"Oh well" said Mr Mouse. "Would have been, if it had happened."

"What do you mean?" asked Dot.

"Well, Cousin Esure just shrugged and picked one end and I took the other... and we were just starting" said Mr Mouse, wrinkling his mouth up so it looked like one of those purses your granny's got (he's one of the people who doesn't like liquorice, I can tell you.) "When... when it happened!"

Wiz sighed. "WHAT?" he said. "What now?"

"This guy!" said Wiz. "This insert screen just appeared in the NetSky! And then there was this big voice - it went "No way! Brian - this is ENOUGH! ENOUGH, already!!"

"Who was it?" asked Dot excitedly.

"Never heard of him - then" said Mr Mouse. "But it's a name I'll never forget - WHAT a life saver! The guy was called - Adrian Webb! And I can tell you - he's THE MAN!"