Mrs Brown’s Boys star Danny O’Carroll has opened up about the time that he could’ve been in a boyband, managed by Louis Walsh.

Danny has played Buster in the sitcom for well over a decade now, with him playing the ne’er-do-well friend of Dermot, Mrs Brown’s son.

Despite being the son of Brendan O’Carroll, meaning that he could’ve been a character for far longer than he actually was, Danny revealed on The 2 Johnnies‘ Late Night Lock-In that he was more into music as a teenager — having an audition when he was 16 for a boyband that was to be managed by none other than Louis Walsh.

‘I did audition for a boyband managed by Louis Walsh,’ Danny said, before admitting that his audition was ‘not great.’

‘They called my name up, and I started to sing “I Can Show You the World” [A Whole New World] from Aladdin… I don’t know [why]. And it started too high. I started and went “I’m in trouble.”

Despite him thinking that the audition didn’t go well, Danny was told by Louis that while he mightn’t have been a candidate for the boy band he auditioned for, he still wanted to work with him — before making an odd request surrounding Danny’s appearance.

‘[Louis] said, “now, we’ll have to get something done with them ears,”‘ Danny said. ‘I was looking at him going… “yeah, yeah, sure, yeah.” So I went home and I was saying to me ma, “he said I have to get something done with me ears.” I was thinking me ma would say like, “cheeky b*****d, what’s he doing?”

‘My ma turned around and says, “do you want to get something done with them?” I was like, “what the f**k is wrong with my ears!?”‘ Danny said to howls of laughter.

While he never ended up in the boyband (and given that he was 16 in 1997, he may have very well been auditioning for Westlife — how different that lineup could’ve been), things worked out alright for Danny; with him getting in to the family business when he played Buster in his father’s sitcom — with the pair reuniting in Florida earlier this year.