Maureen became quite a celebrity and even released a single: her cover of Madness' " Driving in My Car" reached #50 in the UK Singles Chart, the music video featured Maureen driving her Lada (although it was on fact filmed sitting on a flatbed trailer to give the illusion that she was driving alone) and fronted a government awareness campaign to increase road awareness. Maureen eventually passed in the last episode in an automatic, though after the series finished she passed a manual test. Maureen's memorable moments (driving a powder blue Lada Riva estate which became as much as star of the show as Maureen herself) include moving into the overtaking lane of a dual carriageway in the path of an overtaking car, and accidentally running over her long suffering husband Dave's foot. She twice more failed to pass the test during the series, as well as the much easier written exam known in the UK as the theory test. Welsh cleaner Maureen Rees became a household name in Britain after spending hundreds of pounds on lessons and failing the practical test several times. It was narrated by Quentin Willson, who would later present the similar Britain's Worst Driver.
The series was created and directed by the British film and documentary maker Francesca Joseph. The series was made on a reduced budget but shown in primetime, it created one of the first reality TV stars in Maureen Rees.
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