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Metro
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Daisy May Cooper reveals 'real name' in adorable throwback snap
Daisy May Cooper is known for her comedic prowess and instantly recognisable name, but turns out that's not her real name anymore. The This Country star shared a throwback snap, celebrating the first birthday of her baby boy, Benji. On her Instagram story, Daisy May, 38, posted a picture of the hospital board with her full legal name. '1 year ago today at 03.04am we welcomed our baby boy into the world,' she wrote with 'Thursday 6 6 2924' written below. Written clearly as the patient's name was Daisy May Weston, the surname of her ex, Will Weston, who she wed in 2019. It seems, while she uses her maiden name professionally, the Am I Being Unreasonable? actress has kept her ex's last name. The pair split in 2021 and she is now with Anthony Huggins, who is the father of little baby Benji. She also has two other children; Pip, five, and Jack, three, from her relationship with Will. Daisy May met Anthony on Hinge and are 'madly in love', with the star referring to him as her fiancé in February. A source said: 'Daisy and Anthony are madly in love with each other and are a success story for dating apps. 'Their relationship has gone from strength to strength and already have a baby boy together.' They added to The Sun: 'It felt the natural step for them both, and their friends and family are made up for them.' Daisy herself told Katie Price on the reality star's podcast: 'I'm with the same guy I've been with for a year and he's so f*****g good for me. More Trending 'He's so calming and it's made me realise that I can actually be a f*****g good partner, if I have a nice partner in return, if he's not trying to f*****g control me, or compete with me or put me down.' Benji arrived early, in what Daisy called 'a scary time' with the tot believed to have spent some time in the NICU (neonatal intensive care ward). The happy couple shared snaps of their newborn, one in Anthony's arms and one in an incubator. View More » Cooper is Daisy May's maiden name and her professional, working name, having risen to fame in mockumentary-style sitcom This Country with her brother Charlie Cooper. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you.
Daily Mirror
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'I quit the NHS to write hit TV show - here's why it gave me PTSD'
Grace Ofori-Attah was a psychiatrist in NHS hospitals and left it all behind to write hit ITV thriller Malpractice. However, seeing her experiences acted out was severely traumatic When Grace Ofori-Attah quit her job as an NHS psychiatrist to become a screenwriter, she thought she'd left the trauma of the hospital wards behind. But when she filmed the second series of her hit medical drama Malpractice, Grace felt like she was right back there. The new series finds psychiatrist Dr James Ford, played by Tom Hughes, in a dicey situation when he's called to section a psychotic patient and assess an anxious new mother at the same time – with disastrous results. 'In my medical career, I specialised in psychiatry so I drew on my experience,' says Grace. 'Dr Ford is not dissimilar to myself.' But recreating a traumatic scenario left Grace feeling like she was suffering from PTSD. 'I hadn't anticipated how stressful I'd find being on a set that was similar to hospitals I've worked in,' says Grace. 'You can mentally detach yourself when you're writing the scripts, but the curse and benefit of having such a fantastic cast and crew is that they filmed them so well I felt like I was having some kind of PTSD. It took me back – but not being able to intervene, having to watch it behind camera.' Luckily for Grace, the crew looked after her when scenes became distressing. 'I had a lot of support,' she says. 'As in, did I want to be on set for certain scenes? Would I find it distressing? Honestly, I hadn't anticipated that. I was grateful that the provision was there.' There are newcomers, too - Am I Being Unreasonable? star Selin Hizli joins as Dr Sophia Hernandez and Zoë Telford is Dr Kate McAllister. While Jordan Kouamé returns as Dr George Adjei and Helen Behan plays Dr Norma Callahan. When viewers first meet James, he's a confident junior doctor. 'We find James at a moment where everything seems OK,' says Tom, 40. 'He's been working at a new hospital for a relatively short period, but long enough for him to find his feet. Things are looking positive. But as the series goes on, James faces several challenges.' Playing a medic isn't easy and Tom was grateful to have Grace on hand. 'She was there to fall back on,' says Tom. 'It was Grace's medical background and real-life experience that drew me to the role.' Selin's character Sophia is also at a tricky point in her life – she's pulled in different directions by her family and her career. From the start, she clashes with James. 'Sophia is trying to be everything to everyone,' says Selin, 36. 'She's trying to have it all, and she's starting to realise it might not be possible.' Selin was delighted to play a doctor, but needed help beyond Grace's capacity when she filmed in the maternity ward. 'We had a midwife to talk through anything technical,' explains Selin. 'And lots of guidance from an obstetrician who was with us when we were doing the more demanding medical procedures.' Fans were gripped by the first series set in A&E, and Helen, who plays Norma, says that while this series has a slightly slower pace, it's got more depth. 'Every department has its own drama,' says Helen, 45. 'This has been a more intense experience.'
The Guardian
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Am I Being Unreasonable? series two review – every single one of Daisy May Cooper's lines is comic gold
Has a living nightmare ever been so howlingly funny? After mainlining the second series of Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli's deeply unsettling dramedy about a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown – one fuelled by a) her husband chucking her out for having an affair with his late brother; b) the guilt of having secretly killed said brother; c) anxiety about her son's murderous tendencies, and d) finding out her new best friend's favourite hobby is recording their private conversations – I seriously doubt it. If you love to laugh, and especially if you like those laughs to be underpinned by thrumming dread and moral turpitude, I doubt you will find a more gratifying show all year. Enthusiasts of Am I Being Unreasonable? will know all this already, which has made the wait for its return feel interminable. Yet while two-and-a-half years have passed in reality, time has stood still in the world of the show: series one ended with Nic (Cooper) having a hallucinatory panic attack at a memorial service for her brother-in-law Alex – her flashbacks revealing that she deliberately caused his death after he rejected her. Series two opens with Nic fleeing the same scene before slinking back to the family home to check on her son Ollie (who seems fine, bar the fact that he recently killed the cat) and ask her furious husband if she can sleep on the sofa. Rejected, again, she is left with only one option: her recently acquired bestie Jen. This is not ideal in light of what we're about to find out: that the memorial descended into bloody chaos after Jen's covert video of Nic confessing to the affair was broadcast to the congregation. Clearly, Jen – played by Hizli with a cool mateyness, designed to mask the desperation this anxiously attached, poverty-stricken single parent is consumed by – is not the person Nic thought she was. But she has no one else, so the pair shack up. What follows is a rollercoaster of psychedelic paranoia – the show mines a sinister and surreal English folklore seam from its rural village setting – as Nic grapples with what she has done and her (justified!) suspicions about her only friend, while being haunted by the young couple who witnessed her crime. Throughout all this heartstoppingly tense drama, the comedy comes thick and fast: the script never wastes an opportunity for wit, levity or weirdness. Every line that comes out of Cooper's mouth and every expression that passes across her face is comic gold. As a quick-witted yet chaotic middle-class mum, Nic is worlds away from the character that brought Cooper fame – This Country's Kerry Mucklowe, essentially a shrug in human form – but equally funny. Cooper's timing is easily matched by Lenny Rush, who imbues Ollie with a mix of mouths-of-babes candour, steely determination and pre-teen histrionics (he has already won a Bafta for his performance). Completing this dysfunctional family is Nic's husband, Dan, played with masterly slipperiness by Dustin Demri-Burns, who does a great impression of a really nice guy when he's not being a red flag-waving scumbag (he is worth keeping around as a banter partner for his wife, though; one highlight of the opening episode is an argument between the pair in which the stars and TV personalities Jason Orange, Melinda Messenger, Carol McGiffin and John McCririck are all invoked). Elsewhere, we are treated to incredible cameos from comedy stars Jamali Maddix, Phil Dunning and Tom Davis (whose exquisite turn as an unhinged cab driver deserves multiple rewinds) and a bananas guest role for Cooper's brother and This Country co-creator Charlie. In many ways, Am I Being Unreasonable? is a spiritual successor to Nighty Night, Julia Davis's pitch-black 00s comedy about a narcissistic beauty therapist with blood on her hands. But though the two shows are similarly dark, the crucial difference is that Cooper and Hizli have crafted characters who are as monstrous as they are lovable and relatable. The show radiates genuine feeling in its depiction of the love between Nic and Ollie, and understands how even a profoundly flawed female friendship can be a means of survival. (Jen's motivations are never overt, but an extended flashback does provide some context for her odd behaviour.) I don't want to give any spoilers, suffice to say that by the time the end credits rolled my jaw was on the floor. The plot is inordinately gripping, and there is something almost Shakespearean about its engineering; Nic and Alex's affair sparks a domino effect of awful events that feel inevitable and unstoppable. This being a continuing TV show, however, there is neither catharsis nor resolution. I can't predict what horrifying developments Cooper has up her sleeve for the already-commissioned third series, but it would be criminal to make us wait until 2027 to witness them. Am I Being Unreasonable? aired on BBC One and is on iPlayer.
