Daily Mirror from London, London, England • 11

DAILY MIRROR, Saturday, July 6, 1968 PAGE 11 TELEVISION MIRROR Zofingen. THEY'LL be taking down the scaffolding today in the cobbled square of Zofingen a quaint little Swiss town not far from Basle. And, for the first time for a week, the good burghers of Zofingen (population 10,000) will be back to normal, with the barricades removed and the shops in the square ag ain open. It has been a big week in the history of this fairyland place, the week when television took over its toytown buildings and narrow medieval streets. few drinks and a good tuck in at a pie -and-mash shop.

I prefer a plate of fish-and-chips to eating at the Dorchester or the Hilton." Monica has finished recording the "Double Your Money shows and joins Hughie Green in a summer stage show at Southsea in August. After that she has nothing at all in her diary. Rescue "I suppose I could always go back to the old job," she said. But I wouldn't really want to." Marriage, perhaps, I suggested 2 Eventually, yes. But not next month or next year," she smiled.

Is it back to obscurity now for little Miss Cinderella of show business? She's not ally downhearted. Perhaps a Prince Charming might still come to her rescue with a glass slipper that fits. 5 i i i i i i iiiiii.ii..ii: :gii.i;iiii•i:.:.::•.miN efAiN in i i nr i f.i•••• :.1:. 7.......1... fi :::.0: r.

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ii i ii i Zi. i.i.:4•kia: i ek ligt k. :Mir.f: :13: Monica Rose: a seaside an empty diary. Hero You saw what it was all about on C-T last night when a team from New Brighton-15 men and 10 their best for Britain in the international television stunt show It's a Knock-Out." They came fifth with 33 points. Ge many were easy winners.

Britain's hero was schoolboy Eric Jones. 16. Is SHE'S the Cinderella of show business. The little girl who shot from obscurity to fame overnight with a fairy-godmother called I TV. Her name Monica Rose, the 4ft.

91n. cocky Cockney kid who appeared on Hughie Green's "Double Your Money" programme four years ago as a contestant, walked off with eight was invited back as resident hostess. Monica's cheeky grin and fun-provoking antics won her a place in hearts of millions of viewers But "Double Your Money comes off the screen for good this month, and now Cinders faces the prospect of her golden coach turning back into a pumpkin. I'm not too anxious about my future, luv," she told me as we chatted in her splendidly fitted-out seven-roomed flat complete with cocktail It's a far cry from the flat she used to share with her parents and five brothers and sisters in petitors had seen the games and apparatus until 9 a.m. last Monday.

Immediately they started practising such offbeat pursuits as catching rubber rings filled with water on the end of spiked lances, and dressing up in wedding clothes while balancing on chairs and climbing through wire cages. Walter Pluss, the Swiss television producer, used nine cameras and 75 technicians. Crazy Each country had two commentators reporting the programme from gin. monitor screens in tiny soundproofed boxes. The Swiss compere was Mani Weber and Britain's represent ati es were Katie Boyle and David Vine.

The television relay was not without craziness, either. French television technicians went on strike and refused to take the programme. So nobody in France saw it. But nobody told the French team they did not want to spoil things for them. it midnight for this Cinderella by KEN IRWIN Shepherd's Bush, Lo ndon.

Then she earned £4 13s. a week as a clerk in a catering firm and shared a bedroom with her sister Veronica. Monica is now twenty, and the four years have re-shaped her life. She can go out and buy clothes when she wants to. She has a handsome radiogram in the lounge nineteenth birthday present from Hughie.

The small car Hughie gave her for her eighteenth birthday has been traded in for a larger saloon. and I can make people laugh fairly easily. I once took singing and dancing lessons and I also learned to play the drums. But none of it really worked out." She sighed: I don't know what I'm going to do now." She looked back on her success. Was it all fun I haven't always been happy since I went into show business," she confessed.

When I decided to move into my own flat it was a big decision and it wasn't accepted very easily by my family. I still go home quite a lot. Me Mum still has me dinner ready when I tell her I'm coming over." Monica's salary as hostess on the show has been a steady £75 a week. She also picks up cash for personal appearances. But although I spend more money now, I've still not changed deep down," she said.

I still like to go out with a gang and have a Honest The trappings of success are hers. Yet Monica is a freak of show business. And she is honest enough to admit it. Talent sh said. I can't see that I've got anything.

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HOW THE TV MEN TOOK OVER TOYTOWN who won twelve points. Five other countries took Italy, France, Germany and Belgium. This was the first international round. The final is in Brussels in September. It is the second year Britain has competed in the bizarre, nightmare combination of international athletics and Beat the Clock," a miniature Olympics gone mad.

skill with fun." by Clifford Davis claims BB producer Barney Colehan. It was Colehan's idea to have girls competing. It's funnier somehow to have a girl fall in the water than a man," he says. Enthusiastic fun makers from New Brighton included a police constable, a welder, and an apprentice engineer. It cost the £3,000 to fly them all out and pay their hotel bills.

None of the 150 com- TELEVIEWPOINT THE Americans are asking British companies not to include violent scenes in shows going to the States. It seems a bit of a cheek on their part. For years their films depicting violence have been exported to the rest of the Brixham, Devon. THE sound packed up on our telly this week and my wife had the brilliant idea of playing the piano as background music to Hearts and Flowers for love scenes, hurry-up music for heman stuff. It took us back to the silent cinema and was most F.

H. Croydon, Surrey. IT is 5.10 on a Saturday after- noon and my two grandsons want to watch V. But on C-1, C-2 and IT there is tennis. tennis, tennis.

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