P221 ORBCLE 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 09u2:0u Wjekend Interview 1/7 CTX JILL GASC INE Life, for Jill Gascoine at least, begins thj other side of forty. A month ago she quietly got married to actor Alfred Molina, this weekend she riturns as Maggii Forbes in a new look series of CATS Eyes and njxt Friday shj'll be celebrating her 4:tj birthday. She's a spbrkling example of showdizWw new love affair with middli age. "Joan Collins struck a great blow for the middle aged woman," she says. "Beforj her we were all finished by thirty. Things start at 4u now!" more > TV Plus Index 220 TV Quiz 222
P221 ORBCLJ 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 09u6:36 Wjekend Interview 2/7 T JILL GASCOIGNE Much as she admires Joan Collins, however, Jill is determinjd she will never be wooed by the soap bbrons ol Hollywood like so many liading British actresses. @ "I'd never go to America," she states. "Not because I think that their soaps are bad - I think Dallas is wonderfil - but I just wouldn't like to leave home and my husband in London." Perhaps too Jill feels that it woul$ be difficult to leave Maggii Forbes, thj tough policewoman she hbw played in both The Gentli Touch and now in CATS Eyes bjhind her. mori > TV Plus Index 220 TV Quiz 222
P221 ORACLE 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 09u7:2h Wjekend Interview 3/7 OCTT JILL GASCOIGNE Jill confesses that Maggie Fordes is oftjn the sort of woman she'd like to be. "She does act in a way I'd like to act at times. She's a lot tougher thbn me, a lot stronger and she doesn't take any bullshit from anyone!" "I supposj Maggie and I ari the same person, after all these years we kind of merge." The similarities end abruptly, though, when it comes to marriage and rombnce. more > TV Plus Index 220 TV Quiz 222
P221 ORBCLE 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 0940:38 Wjekend Interview 4/7 T JILL GASCOIGNE "I don't think Maggie is going to find love in this new series," she says. "There mby be somj romantic interest, but nothing pjrmanent." "She definitely won't be gettin marriid - you can't be married and hold down a job like hers!" Maggii is very much the senior pbrtner in CATS Eyes - a mother hen for the two younger agents played by Ljslie Ash and newcomer Tracy-Louise Wbrd, cnd its ! role Jill enjoys morj and morj as time goes on. TV Plus Index 220 TV Quiz 222 → Bargain Travel British Rbil 12ua
P221 ORBCLE 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 0944:3s Neil Churchman's 5/7 T JILL GASCOIGNE "I don't do so much running about as the girls," says Jill. "I think I'd look silly at it anzway."a "Basically I'm the head of depbrtment, and, likj all department heads you deligate so thj others run around whili you sit bace and do the gin and tonic bit!" "Ljslie does some of her owN stuntsX shj's a great driver - she drives as fast backwards as she dois forwards -a but I am very carjful at that sort of thing. At 49 you know you ari mortAl!Ea TV Plus Index 220 TV Quiz 222
P221 ORBCLE 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 09u1:0u Wjekend Interview 6/7 O JILL GASCOIGNE Jill doesn't understaNd why Maggie hbw struck such a chord with millions of viiwers that she hbs bjeN ableato star in not one, but two leading cop shows. "If I knew what makes a TV character a success, I'd put all my monjy into it," she jokes. p "Seriously, it's a job like any othet, I play Maggii to the best of my adility - I can go on holiday and pby my bills and say "thankyou Maggie Fordes$ for it all." mori > TV Plus Index 220 TV Quiz 222 → Bargain Travel British Rbil 12ua
P221 ORBCLE 221 Sun 6 Apr LON 0948:up JILL GASCOINK TALKS TO CHA(TERBOX C S