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Slim Daisy: It's just too big an ask to play country Kerry again
Daily Express
|October 21, 2025
COMEDY star Daisy May Cooper has admitted she could no longer make hit TV show This Country because she has shed so much weight.
The BAFTA-winning actress, 39, has lost 10 stone over three years — which would create continuity issues with her larger-than-life character Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC mockumentary.
This story is from the October 21, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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