The actor felt very supported by the Mrs. Brown’s Boys team on Dancing with the Stars – and he would love Martina Stanley and Una Crawford O’Brien to sign up next year
Rory Cowan hasn’t seen Mrs. Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll in seven years, but he felt very supported by him and the show during his time on Dancing with the Stars.
Brendan said that the whole cast and crew wanted Rory to lift the glitterball trophy.
However, Rory became the second Mrs. Brown’s star to be sent home first.
Rory told RSVP Live: “Brendan lives in Florida, so I haven’t seen him in seven years.
“I haven’t seen Brendan since I left the show because he lives in Florida. But he has been very supportive of everything I have done.
“Mrs. Brown’s Boys fully supported me in this and they are all behind me and that they hoped that I was going to win, which is very nice.
“But I do know that he supported me and it is wonderful to just like I support him and anything he decides to do. It is great.”
Rory is the second Mrs. Brown’s Boys star to be eliminated first from Dancing with the Stars after Eilish O’Carroll in season three. But Rory feels there is still big support for Brendan and the comedy show.
He said: “Mrs. Brown’s Boys is still huge. It is a fabulous show. It is when you go into other things that are different and people see you in something else. I keep getting asked all the time, ‘Am I going back to Mrs. Brown’s Boys?’ or ‘Do I miss Mrs. Brown’s Boys?’
“Sometimes people don’t want to see you doing something else. I don’t know why the public didn’t get behind me. That is their choice.”
Rory was one of two Fair City favourites on Dancing with the Stars this year and he would like to see some of his other co-stars sign up.
He said: “Martina Stanley would be wonderful. She is a very elegant women. I would like to see Una Crawford O’Brien doing it. She would be fabulous.”
Rory has retired from public life ahead of his 65th birthday, but he will continue to play Bosco on Fair City this year.
He said: “I have a contract with Fair City for this year and I am doing, that but anything else I am asked to do. There been a few things that I have been asked to do. I am not doing any of them. I’m finished.
“I am just going to enjoy myself now and do lot of travelling.
“I have been working very hard since I was 17. So that is 44 years at this stage and I am looking forward to retirement.”
“I genuinely will take to it because I have worked very hard and it is time and, it is somebody else’s turn to do whatever it is that we want to do.
“I have had a great, a great career working with EMI and traveling all over the world with them.
“And then a fabulous career with Brendan O’Carroll. I couldn’t believe it if I hadn’t lived it. And then I wrote a best selling book, I was in a few pantos and I have done Dancing with the Stars.
“I think I have done enough at this stage.”
