The newlywed couple lived with Maureen's parents for two years, to save money for their own house. Maureen worked with her mother as a cleaner at the precision engineering firm Alfred Cook. David also featured in Driving School, balancing his role at the local bus garage (where his father-in-law formerly worked) with giving his wife occasional driving lessons, in their Lada, which mostly did not go well. Examples include Rees' moving into the overtaking lane of a dual carriageway into the path of a car already in the lane, and accidentally running over her husband's foot. The couple have three children: Mandy, Hailey and Leighton. A local garage gave Rees an R-registration alpine green Lada Samara, which she named Rocky, for passing her manual driving test. Rees was the subject of an episode of This is Your Life after her appearance in Driving School. In 2001, Rees underwent hip-replacement surgery, which kept her off the road for seven months. She took refresher driving lessons again because she had "gone rusty". Rees is a cancer survivor; she decided to learn to drive after overcoming cancer of the womb, which was discovered in 1987. She also needed a car because she decided to start her own cleaning company. References Living people 1942 births Welsh television personalities People from Grangetown, Cardiff Survivors of diseases and disorders