Daisy May Cooper's brother horrified at her sleeping habit - 'I'm not the only person'
Actress Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie discovered new things about each other while filming spooky new BBC2 ghost series Nightwatch at haunted spots around the country
TV's This Country star Daisy May Cooper shocked her younger brother Charlie when the pair had to share a room overnight for the first time since they were children during the filming of spooky series Nightwatch.
In the six part series they spend sleepless nights in haunted locations across the UK, including the Four Crosses Inn in the Midlands, Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, a haunted pub in York, Carew Castle in Wales and Ben Alder Bothy in the Scottish Highlands.
However, it was when they had to share a cell overnight at Gloucester Prison that Charlie discovered his sister’s disturbing sleeping habit.
At the start of the night, Charlie gets the top bunk, but it’s not long before they’re so spooked they’re sharing a single bed. “What I like about you is you’re very sort of long and thin and you take up very little space,” Daisy tells Charlie. “You don’t snore either.”
However, Charlie claims he didn’t snore because he was disturbed by the things that go bump in the night – and his sister’s sleep vaping.
“I wasn’t sleeping!” retorts Charlie. “Did you know you vaped in your sleep? You’re clutching the vape as you sleep so tightly, it’s mad. It’s like, no one can prise it out of your hands! But sharing a room was like a throwback to being kids.”
For Daisy, 39, though, it’s no surprise. “Yeah, I know that,” she admits. “That is terrifying. And I’m not the only person who vapes like that.”
Despite Charlie's lack of sleep, the pair loved the chance to work together again on the series and reconnect. Daisy tells Charlie, “I remembered you’re a really lovely brother. Plus we did go off on so many tangents digging up our past and our childhoods – finding out some ridiculous truths from when we were kids about what really happened to my toys.”
Charlie, 36, admits he has always believed in ghosts, even though before filming the series with his sister he hadn’t had any encounters himself.
“Our granddad saw a ghost years ago and I vividly remember him telling us what happened and the way he described it was so captivating,” he says. “It had me hooked on the paranormal ever since.”
“Granddad lived in this old cottage and there was an alleyway that ran alongside the house into a dead end and he saw a peasant figure with a pickaxe on the shoulder walking down the alley and then disappearing into the end wall.
“He mentioned it to his neighbour, and they’d seen the same ghostly figure a few times over the years, which is pretty mad. I had no reason to doubt my granddad – he was a GP and a really straightforward, reliable guy. So I suppose I started believing in ghosts from then on.”
Daisy May And Charlie Cooper’s Nightwatch, Sunday 26 October, 9.30pm, BBC Two
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