Daisy May Cooper to Play DJ’s Mum in New Biopic

Daisy May Cooper is reportedly set to play a legendary DJ’s mum in a hard-hitting new biopic.

A film adaptation of DJ Fat Tony’s memoir I Don’t Take Requests, which details his addiction and wild showbiz life, is in the works. 

The memoir discusses how the DJ, whose real name is Tony Marnoch, struggled with addiction while being one of the biggest DJs on the London club scene, with pals such as Kate Moss and Boy George.

And now it has been said that Daisy, 39, is the first casting choice as she has been lined up to play Tony’s mum Dawn. 

A source told The Sun: ‘Tony is really proud of his memoir and now he’s in the process of turning it into a film. He’s been telling everyone that Daisy was going to be playing his mum in the film.’

‘Daisy is a sensational actress and Tony had a real coup getting her on board,’ the source added. 

‘It will be fascinating to see who he casts as some of his famous mates and, more importantly, who is going to be playing him.’

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Daisy for comment.  

Tony’s 2022 memoir detailed a wild life as a jet-setting song spinner alongside a drug addiction that very nearly killed him.

The Beckhams call him their ‘first port of call’ for a party while Kelly Osbourne gushes he’s ‘one of the most beautiful examples of humanity I have ever witnessed’. Kate Moss was the first person to get a copy of his book. 

The opening chapter of I Don’t Take Requests was a far cry from the celebrity carousel he now regularly rides though. 

It told how at the age of 39, Tony embarked upon a five-day bender that put ‘eight-balls of coke’ and a cocktail of prescription drugs on the menu – leaving the star barely in control of his bodily functions and with just one tooth left in a jaw crumbled by the effects of addiction. 

He wrote: ‘I was so emaciated that you could close your hands around my entire waist.’

When the DJ’s former partner found him in the back room of a London club that night, he was, he said, ‘a zombie, the lights were out and I was rocking back and forth, wringing my hands and chewing my gums.’ 

It was a rock bottom moment that would eventually put him on the path to recovery, and start 15 years of sobriety that have seen his career soar since – and his celebrity friendship circle blossom. 

The flamboyant DJ, who grew up on an estate in Battersea – and was given his first line of coke by Freddie Mercury at the age of 15 – first found fame as a drag artist in the 80s before turning to the decks in the 90s, and becoming part of a party set that included Tracey Emin, Kate Moss and Madonna.

There were also juicy tidbits galore in the book. Moss would get so sloshed on cocktails in the 90s, he reveals, that he’d have to wake her up while the party was raging. 

‘I used to make her Long Island iced teas and she’d get so p***ed I’d tuck her under the desk downstairs (in the club) to have a sleep and go down every now and again to give her a little kick to check she was all right,’ he wrote.

His memoir speaks about his HIV diagnosis that he lived with unknowingly for up to 15 years because ‘addiction ruled everything’. He was left in a coma for four months because his HIV went untreated for so long.   

He said he is still surprised that he managed to turn his life around and credits his ex-partner Johnny for helping him to get sober.  

‘My addiction was far greater than I was at that point in time. I got to the very last moments before death, all I thought about on a daily basis was dying. I had planned the music at my funeral.

‘I just couldn’t go on like that. The pilot came back came back on. The love of one person changed that.’

Deconstructing a life ‘built around destruction’ wasn’t easy, he said because many of the friends in his life at that time facilitated his addiction continuing. He left London for six months. ‘I had to be taken out of the equation’, he said. 

He now compartmentalises his career into ‘before’ and ‘after’ his recovery, saying he was only getting bookings at the height of his addiction ‘out of loyalty’. 

It’s a dramatically different story now, as he is regularly flown across the globe by some of the world’s biggest names to play his upbeat sets.

‘I was DJ-ing with Joan Collins last night for a tea party. You have have these moments where, you’ll be in Donnatella Versace’s living room… I going to do Donnatella’s party in Lake Como in a couple of weeks and I have to pinch myself that it’s real. 15 years ago, I was homeless on the streets. It’s kind of mad. 

‘I stopped drinking, I stopped taking drugs and I became real, I became myself – I’m doing now what I should have done many years ago. I had a life pre drugs and a life post drugs. I love what I do and I think it shines through. 

‘My life is incredible today, I have freedom and self-respect…I  love myself for the majority of the day – I still have self-loathing moments because that’s the way I’m wired. You have to put one small foot in front of the other.’