I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

There he was scouted for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates on which he played Hetty's under-aged sidekick Geoffrey Shawcross for four series. Monaghan originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer. It was part of a programme called REESES Puff's Extraordinary Cinema (Where the teens replace the pros).

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