Monica Rose

Rose was born in London in 1948. Her father was a London Underground train driver and mother a cleaner at White City Stadium. In 1964, at the age of just 16, whilst working as a young accounts clerk, she was given tickets for a recording of the Hughie Green quiz show called Double Your Money. The show offered a choice of 42 subjects and offered £1 for the answer to a question given by the host with the chance to double their money from £1 up to a maxmimum of £32. The top prize was £1,000. Rose was plucked from the audience to take part and despite only winning £8 she had the personality to persuade Green (he was "impressed by her cockney charm and manner") to invite her back as a guest hostess on the show six weeks later. She stayed for three years until leaving although returned to the show before it was discontinued in 1968.[1]

She later worked on The Sky's the Limit which ran from 1971 to 1974.[2]

Rose left show business in 1977 and was admitted to hospital three years later suffering from a nervous breakdown. In 1982 she married Terry Dunnell a Baptist lay preacher and officer of a religious group called the Frontier Youth Trust. She settled with him in Leicester where she worked as a checkout operator in a supermarket.[2] After battling depression, Rose committed suicide by overdosing on antidepressants and tranquillisers in 1994.[3][4]

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