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Daisy May Cooper admitted the Cotswolds “is hell if you don’t have money” and spoke about growing up in a wealthy area.
The comedian, 38, who rose to fame after writing and starring in the hit series This Country, never felt the need to move to London and still lives in the West Country.
Discussing life in The Cotwolds in an interview with The times she confessed: ‘(It’s) hell if you don’t have money. You are surrounded by wealth.
My parents are very angry because rich people drive everyone off the road in Range Rovers. I had chip for a while. I’m not like that anymore.’
Daisy, who is believed to have pocketed £2million in the last two years, has opened up about her attitude to wealth and now the star has explained that money can’t buy happiness but it does provide options.
Daisy May Cooper joked that The Cotswolds “is hell if you don’t have money” and admitted to previously having a “resentment” about wealth.
Daisy grew up in a small two-bedroom council house with her parents and brother Charlie, but her newfound wealth has only partially changed her lifestyle (pictured on This Country).
Daisy grew up in a small two-bedroom council house with her parents and brother Charlie, but her newfound wealth has only partially changed her lifestyle.
He joked: ‘Now I have great bedding. That doesn’t mean I’ve become an idiot. I have good food. Who would I try to impress with shitty food? I still do things that are considered working class, like I prefer caravan holidays so the kids are entertained. If we went to Soho Farmhouse, they’d be bored. You pick and choose.
Daisy also revealed that she tried to own a Range Rover, even though she doesn’t know how to drive, as she joked that she bought it for £90,000 cash and lost £40,000 when she sold it.
This Country first aired on BBC Three in February 2017. The mockumentary followed cousins Kerry and Kurtain Mucklowe around an abandoned town in the Cotswolds as they caused trouble while out of work.
The brothers have previously revealed that they “had nothing” when they started writing the comedy and that they “couldn’t even afford McDonald’s.”
Daisy and Charlie were working as cleaners at the time and were earning approximately £100 a month from that work.
However, in March her company Daisy Cooper Ltd filed its annual accounts, which reveal it paid £189,601 in corporation tax for the year to March 31, 2023.
At a rate of 19 per cent, the company made a profit of approximately £997,900.
The previous year, in 2022, he paid £155,865 in tax, equivalent to a profit of £820,342.
He joked: ‘Now I have great bedding. That doesn’t mean I’ve become an idiot… I still do things considered working class, like I prefer caravan holidays so the kids are entertained.
This Country followed cousins Kerry (Daisy) and Kurtain Mucklowe (Charlie Cooper) around an abandoned town in the Cotswolds as they stirred up trouble while out of work.
Speaking about Lorraine in 2020, Daisy said: “It was a very somber time. I had just left drama school, I didn’t get anything, I had to move back in with my parents and do a night cleaning job.
“I think they paid me about £100 a month and while we were cleaning we came up with these characters and said, ‘We’ve got to write something.’
“Because humor was the only thing that got us through such a depressing time.”
However, their attempts paid off when the Charlie and Daisy comedy series became a huge hit.
And they made it a family affair; casting his father Paul as Martin Mucklowe on the show, Kerry’s father and Kurtain’s uncle.
Trevor Cooper, Daisy and Charlie’s uncle, also stars in the show as local antagonist Len Clifton.
