TELEVISION gardener Monty Don promised to create a pool of paradise for Karen Reilly...and left her with a muddy eyesore.
While millions of "This Morning" viewers watched Monty's men create a pond in Mrs Reilly's back garden at Thornton Close, Blackburn, she was furiously trying to get rid of it.
Granada Television, who made the programme, agreed to pay a landscape gardener to put things right.
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