Daisy May Cooper is back on our screens with the latest series of Am I Being Unreasonable?. The comedic actress from Gloucestershire shot to fame thanks to her BAFTA-winning series This Comedy alongside her brother Charlie Cooper. Her success has seen her star in The Personal History of David Copperfield, Avenue 5, The Witchfinder and Rain Dogs. She is also one of the team captains on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and has appeared on Taskmaster, The Big Fat Quiz, The Masked Singer and RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World.

Her latest show, Am I Being Unreasonable?, was a smash hit for the BBC in 2022 with 3.2 million viewers and won various awards. The second series is set to air on BBC One at 9.30pm on Wednesday (February 5). Beyond her life on TV, Daisy May has had a busy and colourful life including how she got into drama school, the various odd jobs she worked before This Country and her love life. Back in 2007, a fresh-faced 20-year-old Daisy May from Cirencester wanted to be an actress and study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

She took to the pages of her local paper - Gloucestershire Live's sister publication the Gloucestershire Echo - to appeal for help to top up the funds she needed, an extra £3,000 on top of her own money and student loan to help pay the £9,500 per year she needed to live in London. At the time, she told the paper it would be "heartbreaking" if she had to pass up the opportunity but, on Jonathan Ross Show, she said: “I absolutely hated it," adding: “I’m annoyed now I’ve got to pay my student loan back.

"One of the lessons used to be, this really old director that we had, he must have been in his 80s, who used to just fall asleep when watching you perform. His only note was, “Do it better.’”. After leaving RADA, Daisy May Cooper struggled with work and ended up at the job centre. The job adviser searched for jobs in the ‘arts’, but there were not many options available apart from Father Christmas and a DJ gig. She struggled to find work and couldn't even get a job as a kitchen porter at her local curry house.

Alongside her brother Charlie, they worked as officer cleaners but were later sacked. It was these experiences that spurred on Daisy May to become an actress and make it in the TV industry. Daisy May Cooper was previously married to Will Weston and the pair lived together in Fairford, Gloucestershire. The pair were married in The Cotswolds in September 2019 and they have two children together, namely a son named Jack who was born in 2020, and a daughter named Pip was born before 2019.

Will is a landscape gardener who runs his own company called The Garden Plant Company, which specialises in advising on horticulture and supplying plants, trees, shrubs, and more. The pair were married in The Cotswolds in September 2019 and together they have two children, to whom they're "both devoted parents". The pair decided to part ways in 2021 after the Covid-19 lockdown "shone a spotlight" on their marital difficulties.

She told The Times: "Will is amazing, an incredible, incredible dad - but fundamentally, there wasn't real love there, I don't think there ever was, really.". Daisy is now in a relationship with Anthony Huggins and they share a son together, Benji. Benji was born seven weeks early after Daisy May's waters broke while filming Am I Being Unreasonable?. They live in South Cerney, Gloucestershire with five children under one roof, including two each from previous relationships, plus Benji.

The comic actress says she didn’t appreciate how much weight she has lost until she saw herself in a flashback from her hit sitcom. Daisy, 38, joked that she has lost a whopping 10 stone the space between filming series one and two of Am I Being Unreasonable?, and it was seeing herself in old scenes which really made her see how her appearance has changed. Daisy May puts her transformation down to adopting the Keto Diet - which promotes a high fat low carb meal plan - after the 2020/21 Coronavirus Lockdown.

She told The Sun’s TV Magazine : "It was a bit mad as since we filmed the last series and this series I’ve had my lips done and lost about ten stone so in those flashbacks, we were just killing ourselves laughing as we don’t even look the same people. But it was fun. "And I was pregnant when we started filming series two and my a**ehole of a son decided to be born seven weeks early, so we had to stop filming right in the middle. I have a brilliant son, but that was stressful.".

Daisy previously told Grazia that she had been trolled for her slimmer figure. She said: "I've had some messages like, ‘Well, now you've lost the weight you're not funny any more.’ What the f***? Why do women have to be f***ing 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.". Celeb obsessed? Get a daily dose of showbiz gossip direct to your inbox.