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Now The Fox Turns Hunter

Magazine - TV Times
Date - 5th June 1999
Copywright - TV Times/IPC Magazines 1999

Rosie Fox is back and former colleague Eddie Santini had better watch out. The Bill's smouldering duo have been brought together again for an explosive storyline played out over the next few weeks.

Raven-haired actress Caroline Catz certainly had a tough time in her last outing as WPC Fox. She was all but raped by the obsessed PC Santini and then, when she struggled with her conscience over whether to report the incident was stalked by him.
"I jumped at the chance to come back," says Caroline, who spoke in a pause between filming at The Bill's Wimbledon studio. "Everyone wanted to see Rosie and Santini together again. When I walked in, it was like I'd never been away. Our scenes are written by the same scriptwriter, Elizabeth-Anne Wheal. It's brilliant stuff."
Last September, more than 11 million viewers were hooked by the sexual harassment storyline. Finally, when Rosie could take no more of Santini - played by 32-year-old Michael Higgs - she asked for a transfer. But now the tormented policewoman is back...only this time, she is the hunter.
Rosie is now a sergeant in the Murder Squad and Santini has a lot to hide. And if you thought their last cash was unmissable, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Last time round, their on screen sexual chemistry could have provided electricity for the whole of London, so everybody wanted to know when Rosie was coming back. Caroline was amazed at the reaction. "People pointed me out in the street to their friends. They'd talk about me as though I wasn't there. It happened on the tube once and I couldn't believe it.
But now she's got used to men calling out: "You all right Rosie?" She says: "They'd tell me what they'd like to do to Santini," she laughs again. "I'm so glad men seem to be on Rosie's side, I was afraid they would think what he did was okay, and macho. But thankfully they don't."
She also had letters from women who had been sexually harassed at work, including two women police officers. Yet she knows many Santini attractive. "He's charismatic, he's a con man. And women are attracted to rogues. Frankly I find men like that deeply unsexy, deeply unattractive. There's no way I'd go for Santini."
Caroline is keen to stress her co-star is nothing like his character. "He's totally different. When I first started working here, I was very nervous and Michael was so good to me. He took me around and showed me the ropes and made sure I was okay. He's a lovely, nice, sensitive person, and a good mate." After the locker room attack scene - which they had to reshoot because the sound went - they walked off to get a cup of tea together.
She too is very different to Rosie. "She's a lot more organised than me, less chaotic. She is very focused on her work. She's very confident, much more up front. She is braver than me. I am not so confident, I'm much more shy. I suppose it's why I like playing these strong characters.
Within months of her The Bill episodes, Caroline landed the part of another policewoman, WPC Cheryl Hutchins in ITV's The Vice. Research included cruising the peep shows in Soho. "I was so naive, I couldn't believe the things I saw. Some of those sex aids - I certainly wouldn't know what to do with them!"
Caroline's next role will be one that's far removed from the boys in blue. She is to play a jealous sister in a stage play. "I've been a policewoman for too long now," she laughs.

I'm not sure where this bit of an interview came from, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway.

Disclaimer : I don't own the copyright for this, .....etc.

Says Caroline: "I was thrilled to bits when I was asked back to THE BILL after such strong episodes last year. I love playing Rosie, she is strong, intelligent and really together. I'm afraid she is very different to me, she is a risk taker and much braver than I am. I particularly liked the fact that she returns as a Sergeant, so she's one up on Santini already."

Thank you to Alan for sending me this along with the next article, Going Too Far!

Magazine - Daily Mail Weekend
Date - February 1999
Copywright - Daily Mail Newspaper

Age - 28.
Style - Dark beauty.
Don't mention - Sex shops: in the interests of research, she visited one in Soho - and couldn't stop laughing. She also tried a peepshow (see below).
She says - "You see this girl who has obviously just been sitting there in a tracksuit watching Richard and Judy and drinking a cup of tea..."
What next - Something more wholesome?
And another thing - Caroline was the lady who loved Milk Tray in the "caring Nineties" version of the ad.

Going Too Far

Magazine - Inside TV
Date - August 1998
Written by - Sue Malins
Copywright - Inside TV (or something along those lines)

There were some pictures with this article, and I'm saving up for a scanner, so watch this space!

A kiss spells trouble for Sun HIll's new recruit.

New recruit Rosie Fox gets off to a bumpy start when PC Eddie Santini knocks her off her bike, but that's nothing to what the pair are about to encounter.
In a 90-minute episode, which gives viewers a taser of the popular police drama's extended format, Fox and Santini are assigned to an undercover prostitution operation.
Professionally, all goes well, but the relationship between the two officers is disrupted by a drunken kiss.
Rosie sees it as a friendly encounter, but Santini reads it as an invitation to go further.
Is Rosie over-sensitive or is Eddie guilty of over-stepping the mark?
Even Caroline Catz, who plays Rosie, admits that it's not a clear-cut case.
"Situations like this are rarely black and white," she says. In this case, there has been an attraction between them which confuses things."
"But he wants more and the situation becomes ugly," says Caroline.
"I do sympathise with modern men, not knowing where the boundaries are. Doors have been opened, but we're all in unknown territory - both men and women. It's very confusing. I'm sure it's a story that will get people talking.
Caroline, who lives in London with her boyfriend, made her TV name playing Dawn in the BBC drama series, Preston Front.
"Catz isn't my real name though," she reveals. "I just picked it in a phone booth."
Caroline's real surname is Caplan. "But I discovered there was already anoher one registered with Equity, the actor's union. I had to come up with an alternative fast and noticed someone had doodled a picture of a cat in the phone box, so I went for that."
"The irony is. I'm actually allergic to cats. But I really love the name!"

I printed this one off a website ages ago. Since then, the website's either moved or been shut down, so I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's size 10s.

Disclaimer : I don't own the copyright for this, .....etc.

Caroline Catz had the shock of her life when she and the other 'Preston Front' regulars spent a day training with the Territorial Army. It wasn't the army assault course, the aching limbs or even the mud up to her arm-pits that got to her but the guns.

'The most mind blowing thing was learning how to handle a gun. I was disgusted at myself to find how thrilling it is, the sense of power it gives you to fire them. We were taken out into this quarry and given loads of ammunition to shoot off, and the recoil of it was far more than I expected. I felt like 'I know what these things are built for and here I am learning how to use one.' It was a very strange experience.'
Caroline Catz in Preston Front But Caroline - who is currently appearing in 'Shopping and F*cking' at the Geilgud Theatre prior to the Edinburgh Festival and a world tour - recalls the whole day with the real TA, when the actors were taken out in uniform for their basic training, as an incredible experience.
'I came home afterwards and couldn't stop talking about it. It gave me great insight into what happens in the TA and the Army. It really affected my thinking about the Army and whether it should even exist. It's almost like a religious organisation where the baddies gets put down and the goodies are rewarded.'
In the new series of 'Preston Front' Eric and Dawn's relationship is turbulent but Caroline has no doubt about the deep feeling the couple have for each other. 'Her love for Eric is very serious. He has some trouble accepting it when she gives up her teacher training, because it was her parents who wanted that career for her, and she knows she has not got the commitment for the job.'
Caroline's career is flourishing with recent roles in 'Guilty', the Screen Two production 'Look Me In The Eye' and 'The Merchant of Venice'. She has always been a talented singer, and these days records with a band called 'Sapphire' which is about to release its first single.
'It is bit country and a bit jazzy and I just love doing it,' she says. 'We do gigs when I am at home but with making the 'Preston Front' series I have not had a chance to do many recently.

For other articles on the Santini/Fox storyline go to The Santinists' website and look on their article page.