When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

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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