This Country's Daisy May Cooper set to star in The Traitors celebrity version

This Country and Never Mind the Buzzcocks prima Daisy May Cooper is acceptable to look successful the archetypal personage mentation of The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman

This Country prima Daisy May Cooper is being lined up to look successful the archetypal personage bid of The Traitors.

The Am I Being Unreasonable? star, 38, is acceptable to prima successful the BBC world show, which sees Faithfuls pitted against concealed Traitors, with contestants tasked with selecting who they deliberation is telling the truth.

Daisy, who besides stars connected Never Mind The Buzzcocks, has antecedently appeared connected world bid The Masked Singer, wherever she performed arsenic Otter. But she besides has acquisition bluffing to different celebrities, and whittling retired liars, during an quality connected on Would I Lie To You successful 2019.

A root said: “Daisy is cleanable for the Traitors. Obviously her acting talents volition assistance if she has to person everyone she is not a Traitor, but she’s besides truly likeable and large fun, truthful she would marque a large Faithful arsenic well.”

However, the histrion has antecedently said that her grooming astatine Rada was “traumatic”. “The tutors practised the Stanislavski Method,” she said earlier this year, describing a method that is expected to assistance actors garner emotions for a role.

“Us students were made to speech astir our experiences of rape and miscarriage successful bid to beryllium arsenic ‘real’ arsenic possible. It was b*******. Acting is conscionable pretending. You tin either bash it oregon you can’t.” However, she besides said she is “open and honest”, explaining: “I conscionable can’t beryllium thing different than me. I person nary filter astatine all.”

Other celebrities being lined up for the bid see BBC Sport presenter Clare Balding, 53, Olympic diver Tom Daley, 30, and Stephen Fry, 67. Richard Osman, 53, has besides been lined up, contempt admitting helium is simply a “terrible” liar. He said past year: “You could not find a worse spy. I would person been terrible. I’m excessively gangly and if I person a secret, I archer everybody.” Richard appeared alongside Daisy successful the aforesaid occurrence of Would I Lie To You.

Filming for the series, which is owed to aerial adjacent summer, has not yet started, but volition beryllium staged astatine Ardross Castle successful Easter Ross successful Scotland and hosted by Claudia Winkleman, similar the civilian version.

The crippled volition spot celebrities divided into Traitors and Faithfuls, and requires cunning and the quality to astutely work different people, which is understood to beryllium drafting immense involvement from stars who person turned down different world TV shows. A BBC spokeswoman said: "The Traitors is simply a crippled that includes lies and deception, frankincense it would beryllium foolhardy for immoderate Faithful to speculate earlier the crippled has begun.”

Daisy wrote and starred successful This Country with her brother, Charlie, which won immense captious acclaim.

She is mum to 3 children, Pip, five, and three-year-old lad Jack with her ex hubby Will Weston and babe Benji successful June with her fellow Anthony Huggins.

She praised the neonatal ward who cared for her and her prematurely calved baby, calling the unit "superstars", and said to her caller son: "You came a spot earlier than we expected and gave maine the worst station op constipation that I astir had to telephone the Samaritans but my deity you are perfect."

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