Eynsham grandmother Rose Green has been watching the new series of Prison Break with particular interest.

Because Mrs Green used to look after its star, Wentworth Miller, when he was just a baby.

Mrs Green, who lives in Beech Road, started taking care of the Hollywood star when he was four months old and looked after him until he left the country a year later.

"It came through a neighbour of mine," she said. "Wentworth's parents asked if she would look after him. She said she couldn't but she knew someone who probably could, which was me."

And so Mrs Green looked after the baby during the day while his mother, Joy, taught special needs children at Upper Heyford US Airforce base.

"He was lovely," Mrs Green recalled, "Very placid. I'm not a childminder, I was just doing it as a favour, but he was really nice.

"When they went back to America, his mum said 'he'll never ever forget you' and I said I would never do it again because it broke my heart when he went, I got so attached to him."

And he was the only baby she ever looked after - apart from her three children and two grand- children.

Mrs Green still keeps in touch with the family and gets letters and pictures at least once a year.

They last met on Boxing Day 2000 when Miller, who has two younger sisters Gillian and Leigh, was starring in children's television show Dinotopia.

And she is an avid fan of Prison Break, although it can make for tense viewing.

"When he was in the tunnel I really got frightened because I just wanted to pick him up and pull him out," she said.

"I think he's absolutely brilliant and he always said he could take me to Hollywood."

Miller, who was born in Chipping Norton in June 1972 and has a degree in English literature from Princeton University, plays the lead character in Prison Break, Michael Scofield - who tattooed his body with a map of a prison before deliberately getting himself sent to the jail to break his brother out.

The new season, which started last week on Five, sees Miller and several other inmates on the run after successfully getting out of the fictional Fox River Prison at the end of the first series.

Miller shot to fame in the show, but had appeared in a number of high-profile films and television series before, including the The Human Stain, starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman, Underworld with Kate Beckinsale and Buffy The Vampire Slayer on television.

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