Daisy May Cooper has admitted her hit series This Country won’t be making a return due to her dramatic weight loss.
The comedian, 38, rose to fame playing Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC sitcom which followed her and her cousin Kurtan, played by her brother Charlie, during their day-to-day life in Cirencester, Cotswolds, in a mockumentary style.
The series last aired in 2020 following three successful seasons and since then Daisy has undergone a dramatic health transformation and has lost ten stone.
And now the star has joked she would never be able to play Kerry again unless her character ‘had a tapeworm’.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Daisy revealed her and her brother are working on something new: ‘It’s early days but we’re working on something unscripted.
‘We can’t do This Country, though, because I’ve lost so much weight and I’ve had my lips done. We’d have to say that Kerry’s had a tapeworm and been stung by a bee.’
Daisy May Cooper has revealed why This Country won’t return due to her dramatic ten stone weight loss and lip filler as she joked her character would have to have ‘tapeworm’
She teased: ‘We can’t do This Country, though, because I’ve lost so much weight and I’ve had my lips done. We’d have to say that Kerry’s had a tapeworm and been stung by a bee’ (pictured on This Country in 2018)
Daisy has been on a dramatic weight loss journey over the last two years but previously revealed she has since been flooded with messages telling her that she’s ‘no longer funny’ since changing her appearance.
Discussing her appearance, the mother-of-two told the BBC podcast How To Be In The Spotlight: ‘I’m so for body positivity but when I was at my biggest I was at my most miserable and I had a massive food addiction.’
Daisy – who split from husband Will Weston in July 2021 after nearly two years of marriage – went on: ‘I wasn’t healthy. I couldn’t breathe when I was walking up the stairs. I was so unhappy.
‘And I’ve had some messages like, “Well, now you’ve lost the weight you’re not funny any more.”
‘What the f**k? Why do women have to be f**king fat to be funny? That makes me so angry. I champion anybody. I think everybody should be happy with their body. But I wasn’t.’
Daisy’s weight loss caused a similar issue during the filming for season two of her BBC comedy Am I Being Unreasonable?
Filming had to be delayed due to Daisy’s new slim physique and lip filler treatment as the star joked: ‘Series one is meant to be 30 seconds before series two and in that 30 seconds I’ve lost about ten stone and had my lips done.
‘I saw the rushes and I said to the BBC, “God, we’re going to have a disclaimer at the beginning saying – Daisy has had her lips done, go with it and please don’t judge”.’
Daisy has been on a dramatic weight loss journey over the last two years but revealed she has since been flooded with messages telling her that she’s ‘no longer funny’ since changing her appearance (pictured L in 2023 and R in 2020)
The actor said she was advised to stop getting anti-wrinkle Botox injections as the effect on her facial expressions could limit acting roles (pictured in May)
The actor has previously admitted to undergoing cosmetic ‘tweakments’ including fillers and this year, said she was advised to stop getting anti-wrinkle Botox injections as the effect on her facial expressions could limit acting roles.
In 2024, the actress said she had had fillers but admitted it gave her a ‘horrible pillow face’ — when filler makes the face appear puffy — and she ‘couldn’t move [her] face’.
She previously told the BBC podcast she was banned by her agent from getting any more Botox or fillers over fears she wouldn’t ‘be able to act’.
She said: ‘I’ve had Botox and then I had fillers. It was just the worst, I looked awful. There’s me on the One Show and I’ve got that horrible pillow face. I can’t move my face.
‘My agent said to me: ‘You’ve got to stop because you’re not going to be able to f*****g act’.
‘I literally couldn’t move my eyebrows. It killed me because I loved not having any creases in my forehead. I stopped having that done. But I haven’t had any surgery.
‘I did go in to have a consultation for a tummy tuck and the surgeon just scared the s*** out of me. There’s that dog ear thing you can get — these flaps that come from the side. I just thought, I can’t. I’ll use my Spanx to hold all that in.’
