Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Superpowers
Ah, will no doubt be thrilled to meet her Birds of a Feather character’s namesake: Dorien the cow. Co-star adopts a calf as part of tonight’s Celebs On The Farm tasks and cheerfully names it Dorien, after Lesley’s man-eater Dorien Green. “There’s a nice young bloke waiting for you,” encourages Linda, as she leads Dorien to her bedroom barn. So she’s aptly named – although given Dorien’s dress sense, it’s a wonder Linda didn’t lend the name to an older sheep... after” her, as she decided to end a 26-year habit of smoking 10-15 cigarettes a day at the most crucial time.
“I’d been smoking since I was 14,” says Kerry, 40. “If I was still a smoker, this would have been different. I had the worst cough ever. I felt like I had a mask on my lungs. I was coughing so much I was being sick. I knew when the
had to be rushed to A&E for an emergency tetanus jab, after an accident left him bleeding... in a pile of piglet poop. virus left me, because I’d coughed that much it was like coughing up a furball.”
Celebs on the Farm star Kerry, who still feels lethargic from the virus, is grateful she decided to pack up fags.
“There was one cigarette left in my packet on January 1,” she adds. “I went to my back door, I smoked it, flicked it and went, ‘I’m done.’ I’ve
The Hollyoaks actor had been building a dry stone wall when pig excrement got into his wound.
“They might have had to cut the show short, because I might have had to cut my fingers off,” says Malique, telling porkies. “It wasn’t not had a puff since. Then the pandemic came in March. I said, ‘Somebody is looking after me.’ It makes me feel like I’ve got proper superpowers.
“I’m so lucky and so blessed. Not everyone has had that kind of an outcome.”
Celebs on the Farm premieres tonight at 9pm on MTV, and continues every week night for two weeks.