AFTER travelling all the way from West Craven, it has been sat in by 11 celebrities and watched by more than seven million people.

In a bizarre claim to fame, it emerged this week that the living room in the Celebrity Big Brother house was made by a company in Barnoldswick - and it could end up as part of a local school or youth club.

The hit TV show's unique £20,000 living room was created by Metalcraft Engineering, based on Ravenscroft Way.

The company, who also created the staircase and shower for the show, initially put the room up for auction on internet site eBay.

Any buyers would have taken ownership of the free-standing structure after tonight's final.

However, the auction failed to attract a serious bid so Metalcraft is still looking for a suitable home.

And as if designing the set for one Channel 4 reality show wasn't enough, Metalcraft also made the "launch pad" for hoax spaceflight show Space Cadets.

The £50,000 creation was built into a disused firing tunnel for jet engines on a former military base, serving as a set for the series which duped a group of contestants into thinking they were leaving the Earth's orbit on live television.

Now, Metalcraft director Ian Nutter is offering any local schools, youth clubs or organisations the chance to put the Big Brother living room to good use.

He said: "I'd rather it went to a good home than sit around in the factory waiting for a buyer.

"If anyone's seriously interested in it, then give us a call. It would probably be best suited to teenagers and young people, so I think it could be used by a youth club or school, but it might also make a decent VIP room in a club or something like that.

"We did try eBay, but it's a new thing for us - we just do our work here in Barnoldswick and we've never really bothered to publicise what we do. Most of our work comes from recommendations and we didn't have the time to sift through the hundreds of e-mail enquiries we were getting about it."

Though the one-off creation took a month of hard work to build, Mr Nutter has not been too taken with its starring role.

He said: "Big Brother's not really my sort of thing. My daughter is glued to it, but I think I've only ever seen about five minutes before switching over."

Metalcraft, which was set up in 1995 and employs 25 people, has also designed interiors for companies, hotels, public buildings and luxury homes all over the world.

The Big Brother living room, which measures 6m x 6.4m x 2.5m, comes in two halves and includes windows but excludes furnishings. Call Metalcraft on 01282 817517 for further information.