Michael Sleggs
- Actor
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Daisy May Cooper claims she's being haunted by ghost of Michael Sleggs
She was left heartbroken when her This Country co-star Michael 'Slugs' Sleggs passed away after a battle with heart problems in 2019. So having her home plagued by ghosts doesn't worry Daisy May Cooper, who says she is actually comforted because she believes it is her pal haunting her.
The Sun, 14th October 2024The 50 best TV shows of 2020: No 8 - This Country
The trials and tribulations of Kerry and Kurtan in a small Cotswold village will have you crying with laughter one moment and stunned with grief the next.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 11th December 2020Daisy May Cooper names baby after Michael Sleggs
The actor and writer - who will appear in the next series of Taskmaster - has called her newborn Jack Michael Weston. His middle name in honour of Sleggs, who died of heart failure in July last year at the age of just 33.
Chortle, 11th September 2020Farewell to This Country, a modern-day masterpiece
Like so many great British series, This Country is quitting while it's ahead - but Sean O'Grady hopes this is not truly the end of the road for the Mucklowes.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 23rd March 2020This Country stars on the hit show's final series
As the BBC mockumentary nears its climax, we talk ghost hunting, Boris Johnson and the death of co-star Michael Sleggs with Britain's finest comedy-writing duo - Daisy May and Charlie Cooper.
Nick Reilly, NME, 6th March 2020It's the third and final series of Cotswolds mockumentary comedy This Country (also streamed on BBC Three), written by and starring siblings Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, as Kerry and Kurtan.
The opening episode featured lovable monster Kerry and the wonderfully eerie Kurtan coming to terms with the death of Sluggs (their real life co-star, Michael Sleggs, died last year, aged 33). A letter left by Sluggs revealed that he and Kerry were responsible for a broken holiday bed that Kurtan was blamed for. Furious at Kerry ("Her only loyalty is to herself, staffies and the TV channel Dave"), Kurtan ensured that Kerry lost her new job at a recycling plant ("At the end of the day I'm a very vindictive person. It's what makes me me"). The episode finished with the pair rebonding over how proud they were of Sluggs for "shit-stirring from beyond the grave".
What a great tribute to Mr Sleggs. The strength of This Country is keynotes that lie not in cruelty or mockery, but rather affection and silliness, and all so sharply done. I, for one, will miss this feral, witty dance around the Cotswolds.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 23rd February 2020This Country Series 3 review
Everything works in perfect concert to portray this deep, unspoken friendship between Kerry and Kurtan, enduring through some testing times.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2020This Country review
Like The Office at its best, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's Cotswolds-set mockumentary remains hilarious, potent and exquisite right to the end.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 17th February 2020This Country, series 3 episode 1 review
A bittersweet return for the delightful sitcom.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 17th February 2020This Country series three review
Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's hilarious mockumentary is as infinitely quotable as ever.
Flora Carr, Radio Times, 17th February 2020