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Daisy May Cooper admitted The Cotswolds ‘is hell if you’ve got no money’ as she opened up about growing up in the wealthy area.
The comedian, 38, who rose to fame after both writing and starring in hit series This Country, has never felt the need to move to London and still lives in the West Country.
Talking about life in The Cotwolds in an interview with The Times she confessed: ‘[It’s] hell if you’ve got no money. You’re surrounded by wealth.
‘My parents have such a chip on their shoulder about wealthy people in Range Rovers barging everybody off the road. I had a chip for a while. I’m not like that now.’
Daisy, who is thought to have pocketed £2 million in the last two years, spoke about her attitude to wealth now the star explained that money can’t buy happiness but it does bring choices.
Daisy May Cooper joked The Cotswolds ‘is hell if you’ve got no money’ as she admitted to previously having a ‘chip in her shoulder’ over wealth
Daisy was raised in a tiny two bedroom council house with her parents and brother Charlie but her new-found wealth has only partially changed her lifestyle (pictured in This Country)
Daisy was raised in a tiny two bedroom council house with her parents and brother Charlie but her new-found wealth has only partially changed her lifestyle.
She joked: ‘Now I’ve got great linen. That doesn’t mean I’ve turned into a t**t. I have nice food. Who would I be trying to impress by having s**t food? I still do stuff 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 she tried her hand at owning a Range Rover, even though she can’t drive as she joked she bought it for £90,000 in 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 a neglected town in the Cotswolds as they created trouble while out of work.
The siblings have previously revealed that they ‘had nothing’ when they started writing the comedy and ‘couldn’t even afford McDonald’s’.
Daisy and Charlie had been working as cleaners at the time, and had been earning approximately £100 per month for the work.
However back in March her firm Daisy Cooper Ltd filed its annual accounts, which reveal that it paid £189,601 in corporation tax for the year upto 31 March 2023.
At a 19 per cent rate, the firm made an approximate profit of £997,900.
The previous year, in 2022, it paid £155,865 in tax, which works out at a profit of £820,342.
She joked: ‘Now I’ve got great linen. That doesn’t mean I’ve turned into a t**t…. I still do stuff 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 a neglected town in the Cotswolds as they created trouble while out of work
Speaking on Lorraine in 2020, Daisy said: ‘It was such a bleak time. I’d just come out of drama school, didn’t get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.
‘I think I was paid about £100 a month and as we were going round cleaning, we came up with these characters and said, “We have to write something”.
‘Because humour was the only thing getting us through such a depressing time.’
However, their attempts paid off when Charlie and Daisy’s comedy series became a huge success.
And they made it a family affair; casting their father Paul as Martin Mucklowe in 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.
