BRENDAN O’Carroll has said that he is 'baffled' by the phenomenal success of his TV series, Mrs Brown’s Boys.
The 58-year-old Dubliner joked that “there must be nothing else on the telly” as he tried to explain the huge appeal of the BBC show.
Mrs Brown's Boy's was the most watched programme on British TV on Christmas Day for the second year running, drawing in 9.4 million viewers.
And now the show's cast are gearing up for the release of a movie version of the show entitled Mrs Brown's Boy's D'Movie.
O’Carroll said: “It's baffling. We never expected anything like that. Having said that we’re not giving the money back! But you do wake up every day and kind of feel that they’re going to find out today that I’m only a waiter and she (co-star and wife Jennifer Gibney) used to work in the bank and they’re going to want all their money back.”
“It’s the concept of it being the number one show in Australia that’s hard to get your head around,” Gibney added, “We’ve never even visited Australia, yet it’s so popular there. It’s in Iceland, Romania, New Zealand, Canada… that’s outside of the amazing success it’s had in Ireland and the UK. It’s just phenomenal and it’s very hard to get your head around how big it’s become.”
O’Carroll and Gibney were speaking ahead of the release of Mrs Brown's Boys D’Movie, which hits cinemas across Britain on June 27.
