![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully, there were no injuries, although we couldn't say the same when Mo accidentally ran over her hubby's foot. In search of Toy Mic Trev, the man who suddenly disappeared from Cardiff's streetsĪ scene from the Driving In My Car video shot on Cardiff's St Mary Street Read More Related Articles.Quickly dubbed the 'Learner from L', there were many memorable (also see 'heart-stopping') moments as we rooted for this plucky underdog most noticeably moving into the overtaking lane of a dual carriageway in the path of an overtaking car – prompting Dave's unforgettable, anguished cry of 'woah, woah, WOAAH', while his life flashed before his eyes. How many driving instructors she'd managed to retire due to nervous exhaustion we never discovered. In episode one of the series we discovered that Mo had failed her test five times and had spent around £5,000 on lessons. She also quickly became a household name after spending hundreds of pounds on lessons and constant failing her driving test. She held a steering wheel in the same way as somebody would if it was on fire and viewed the rear view mirror with a mixture of contempt and fear. Mo and Dave narrowly avoid a collision on a Cardiff bypass (Image: YouTube) With her long-suffering husband Dave by her side, a man with the patience of a saint and nerves of steel, who would have had a quieter time of it in a bomb disposal unit, they were adored by the watching millions. Mo, as she was more commonly known, appeared in Driving School, which followed a group of learner drivers around Bristol and South Wales.īroadcast in a primetime slot on BBC One in the summer of 1997, it created one of the first reality TV stars in Mo, as she gamely battled to overcome her all-too-apparent Achilles heel – she couldn't drive very well. When Maureen Rees, a cleaner from Cardiff, appeared on our television screens 21 years ago, she became an unwitting trailblazer for what was to come – a form of television with real people at its heart. Long before Love Island, Come Dine With Me, X Factor and The Great British Bake-Off even several years before Big Brother, reality TV in the UK was pioneered not by the exploits of unruly housemates under the gaze of surveillance cameras, but by a genial, down-to-earth Welsh woman. ![]()
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