Who was Daisy May Cooper's last This Country co-star, Michael Sleggs? | Celebrity News

Michael Sleggs is known for his role as Michael ‘Slugs’ Slugette in BBC Three’s mockumentary This Country.

The actor had never starred in any other films before, but a chance encounter with his primary school friend at a bar turned out to be his golden ticket, and the friend later greenlit his comedy. BBC.

Daisy May Cooper offered Michael a job as an actor that night – years before his script made it to television – and he kept his promise.

The actor and author was heartbroken when Michael died in 2019 at the age of 33 after a long battle with congenital heart disease.

Michael was placed in palliative care at the end of his life after struggling with various health issues due to having a single-ventricular heart.

By the time he was 10, he had undergone five open-heart surgeries, and by the time he was eight, he had two strokes.

Towards the end of his life, Michael told the Sun: “Everything else is starting to fail a bit now, like my veins, my organs like my kidneys and cirrhosis of my liver – and I don’t even drink anymore!

“A normal person’s blood oxygen level is around 99 percent, for me it’s 75 percent. Everyone was like, ‘What? How are you still standing?’ he says.

“They examined every vein possible, which means I have varicose veins everywhere and leg ulcers, which are horrible, open sores that your shins don’t heal for years.”

Despite his very difficult circumstances, Michael always looked on the bright side of life, especially when it came to work.

He has previously admitted he almost got sacked from This Country for laughing too much on set, adding: “I was terrible in the first series. I thought everything was so funny, seeing Charlie act was so funny, I was laughing the whole time during filming.”

“I was very close to being fired, but they gave me a second chance and we got the reward. Hollywood Coach came in, so it was a lot easier.

“It helped a lot, I was stronger in terms of my acting ability. Most of us had no acting experience, most of us were the same as in real life. I was told ‘Don’t say’. Just be yourself, as if you were acting.”

Daisy recently opened up about her bond with Michael, sharing that she asked her co-star to send her a message from the afterlife letting him know she was okay.

She told the Loose Women panelists that she believed Michael was knocking on her bedroom door on the day of a concert she was looking forward to attending after his death.

Daisy also told the Times that she predicted the date of her death, adding: “Towards the end, when she was in palliative care, she had suffered all her life, she was afraid of dying.

“But then he called me and said: ‘I’m not afraid anymore, I felt the angelic light at the foot of the bed telling me at midnight that in seven days I would have a new body.’

“And within seven days he died at 11.59am. That was such a relief.”