MOST children enjoy clowning around but this couple's daughter will do it in style.

The award-winning clowns from Southampton are expecting a baby girl in five weeks time and a tiny clown outfit - complete with miniature red nose - is awaiting the arrival.

Husband and wife team Jay and Crazy M from Grove Gardens in Sholing, who are well-known in the region for their Krazy Kapers double act, married at a clown-themed wedding two years ago and are keen that their daughter will clown around too.

The talented jesters scooped a prestigious award for the most innovative mime show at this year's annual Clowns International Event and plan to give their daughter the stage name BB - an abbreviation of 'baby bump'.

The couple, who recently returned to Southampton from a 7-month stay in Tenerife, were keen to back the Daily Echo's chuckle campaign - launched after a national survey named Southampton as the most miserable city in the country.

The survey interviewed 2,000 people about how often they smiled and how happy they felt.

Jay and M, who have been making people laugh for 13 years, said the results were "nonsense".

Jay said: "If people in Southampton are supposed to be miserable than how come award-winning clowns live in the city? It's a lot of nonsense. People down here are a great bunch with great senses of humour."

Twenty-nine-year-old M who is due to give birth on May 10 said: "We are never miserable. I'm shocked by the survey, the audiences here are great. We missed everyone so much that we came back from Tenerife where we had planned to stay.

"Our daughter will come along to clown conventions and the annual national clown parade. I'm going to get another outfit made for her by a seamstress when she is three months old.

"We would be proud if she did continue the tradition. We married as clowns and this makes our little family complete."

Do you think Southampton people are miserable or are you always clowning around?

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