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Wales Online
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Hannah Phillips

Funfair-prize goldfish outlives owner's two failed marriages combined - killing off his competition but turns grey in old age

This funfair-prize goldfish has stunned his owner by outliving both his failed marriages combined - turning GREY in his old age and even being renamed five times. Wayne Leach won Goldie for daughter Nancy Leach, then two, during a game of hook a duck in Towyn, North Wales, in 2011 so he didn't expect the bagged-up pet to live for long.

But the 44-year-old recently realised the pet - who has 'a gammy gill and ADHD' - had been alive for longer than both his marriages lasted, with the first 'failing' after three years and the second after nine.

One of his secrets to long life may be killing off the competition, as Wayne says Goldie would 'stress out' the other fish until they all died. Nancy, now 19, can't remember life without the 12-year-old fish and Wayne says he's had five different names, though he's forgotten the others.

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