Michael Sleggs is best known for his appearances on BBC Three mockumentary This Country as Michael ‘Slugs’ Slugette. The actor had never starred in anything else, but a chance encounter with a primary school friend in the pub turned out to be his golden ticket when that friend later got her comedy greenlit by the BBC . Daisy May Cooper offered Michael a job as an actor that night - years before her script even made it to television - and she made good on her promise.
The actress and writer was left heartbroken when Michael died at the age of 33 in 2019, after a long battle with congenital heart disease. Michael was put in palliative care at the end of his life after struggling with various health conditions because of having a single-ventricle heart. He had already gone through five open heart operations by the time he was 10 years old, and suffered from two strokes when he was eight.
Towards the end of his life Michael told the Sun: "Now everything else is starting to knacker out a bit like the veins, my organs such as the kidneys, and liver has cirrhosis on it - and I don’t even drink anymore! "For a normal person, your blood oxygen level is around 99 percent, for me, it’s 75 percent. Everyone goes: 'What? How are you still standing?' "They’ve gone through every vein possible, it means I’ve got varicose veins everywhere and leg ulcers, which are horrible, open wounds where your shins don’t heal up for years and years." Despite his very difficult circumstances,.
