Monica Rose was a British

British people

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 TV quiz show

Quiz Show

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 hostess on Double Your Money

Double Your Money

Double Your Money was a British quiz show hosted by Hughie Green. Originally broadcast on Radio Luxembourg, it transferred to ITV in 1955, a few days after the commercial channel began broadcasting. It was produced by Associated-Rediffusion until 1964 and then by Rediffusion London, and it finished...

and The Sky's the Limit

The Sky's the Limit (game show)

The Sky's the Limit was a UK game show first broadcast on the 10th July 1970, being a travel-themed version of Double Your Money. The contestants had to answer questions based on geography, with every correct answer increasing their prize fund. The top prize was 21,000 miles and £600 spending money...

both hosted by Hughie Green

Hughie Green

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. Originally a contestant on Double Your Money, she was invited to become a hostess on the show by Green, impressed by her cockney

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 charm and manner, and stayed for three years. She later worked on The Sky's the Limit.

She left show business in 1977 and was later admitted to hospital three years later suffering from a nervous breakdown

Mental breakdown

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. She married Baptist

Baptist

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 lay preacher Terry Dunnell in 1982 and settled in Leicester

Leicester

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 where she worked as a checkout operator in a supermarket. After battling depression, Rose committed suicide

Suicide

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 by overdosing on antidepressant

Antidepressant

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s and tranquillisers

Sedative

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in 1994.

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