Black Mirror star sues health club for £100,000 after her mum ‘died from overheating in sauna’

A Brit actress who appeared in Black Mirror has launched a £100,000 lawsuit in opposition to a health club chain in wake of her mum’s tragic loss of life.

Milanka Brooks – finest identified for her position within the dystopian Channel 4 collection in addition to ITV’s comedy Benidorm – is suing underneath the Deadly Accidents Act 1976.

Her mom, former mannequin Mileva Brooks, died in August 2022 after reportedly ‘overheating’ in a sauna on the Everlast Fitness center in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

An inquest at Gloucester Crown Courtroom the next 12 months heard how the 75-year-old was ‘discovered unresponsive within the sauna’ after collapsing.

Mileva, who had joined the health club six months earlier, then handed away from the results of heatstroke in hospital three days later, with Milanka at her bedside.

A publish mortem defined that her core physique temperature had shot above secure ranges, in accordance to The Solar.

Pathologist Dr Matthew Beesley instructed the inquest: “For my part the more than likely reason for loss of life on this case is the results of heatstroke.

“It’s not doable to find out on the idea of this examination alone how lengthy Mileva had been uncovered to warmth within the sauna or estimate what the temperature of the sauna was.

“There isn’t a proof of any illness that will clarify the excessive physique temperature detected on the scene or anything to supply another reason for loss of life.”

Her daughter Milanka is now suing the health club’s house owners – health big Sports activities Direct – for ‘private harm and consequential losses’ of as much as £100,000.

The Black Mirror actress, who performed Elena Tulaska within the 2017 episode ‘USS Callister’, is looking for damages underneath the Deadly Accidents Act 1976.

This act permits the relations of victims who’re killed by the wrongdoing of others to hunt monetary compensation.

Milanka is suing Sports activities Direct for ‘damages in extra of £50,000, however restricted to £100,000’, based on authorized paperwork filed at London’s Excessive Courtroom.

In posts shared to social media, the 41-year-old actress referred to her mum as her ‘silver lining’, ‘associate in crime’ and ‘finest buddy on this planet’.

The TV star can be the daughter of late actor Harry Brooks Jr, who had roles in Physician Who and Hazard Man.

Milanka starred as Johnny Vegas’ fiancée, Ionela, in Benidorm again in 2015 in addition to portraying Princess Svetlana within the royal household parody, The Windsors, in 2020.

Frasers Group, which is the mum or dad firm of Sports activities Direct, bought quite a few DW Sports activities Health areas in 2020 out of administration.

These have been reworked into the Everlast Gyms chain, which boasted greater than 60 branches throughout the UK by 2023, the Unbiased reports.

LADbible has contacted Frasers Group and Sports activities Direct for remark.