Brendan O’Carroll. creator and star of Mrs Brown’s Boys has revealed that he turned down an opportunity to take the show to Russia.
The hugely popular comedy show is currently aired in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand among other countries, would have had to cut the character of Rory, Mrs Brown’s gay son from the show for it be aired in Russia.
“They didn’t want any gay,” Brendan told Marian Finucane on RTE.
“Russia in particular, it was a nice little deal, it’s a big country so the fee you’d charge for the licensing is audience-related, so it’s a big audience and it would have been a nice fee.
“But no gay, absolutely no gay. So I said no gay no show.”
The character of Rory was played by Rory Cowan until this year, when the actor announced his decision to leave the show.
“I hadn’t been happy working for the Mrs Brown’s Boys company for the last 18 months to two years,” Rory told the Daily Mail.
“I feel that 26 years is enough so I decided it was time to go. I told Brendan on June 16 about my decision to leave. That’s when I handed in my notice.
“I was supposed to leave at the end of that week, but Brendan said that would be impossible and asked if I’d stay on until the end of the London O2 gigs. So I agreed to that.”
We can’t wait for Christmas Day to see who has replaced Rory!
