Breaking The Mould: Love/Hate To Expect A Very Unlikely Visitor

The Irish hit television series Love/Hate could have an unlikely visitor to its screen very soon.

Mrs Brown funny-man Brendan O’Carroll had admitted he wants to make a cameo appearance in the gritty crime drama.

The comedian has just completed the most successful year of his career thanks to his Dublin mammy character who has won him awards at home and abroad.

The perfect way to top it all off?

An appearance on RTE’s hottest show, of course.

“Maybe I’ll get a cameo in Love/Hate, that would be great,” Brendan admitted.

“I remember when I did The Van with Roddy Doyle, Stephen Frears the director the night of the opening took me aside and said to me ‘when you get the first opportunity, you have to play a bad guy in a movie. You will be excellent at it.’

“I said, ‘Oh right, thanks very much,’ so you’d never know.”

The 57-year-old is gearing up for a bumper Christmas with two Mrs Brown’s Boys specials and the start of the new series on December 29^th.

We're trying to imagine Brendan helping Nidge on the streets of Dublin.

And then it’s time for Mrs Brown to embark on her biggest adventure ever… New York for the Mrs Brown’s Boys movie.

But he’s adamant he doesn’t want a big actor’s name to pull in the audience.

He said to TV Now magazine: “From the very first time we started doing the series the BBC were saying, “Do you want to get a celeb in?’ and I was saying, ‘Not really, no,’ because then the episode becomes about the celebrity and not the comedy. I just want to make the series like we do it on stage, and if it stands up it stands up, and if it doesn’t well then we move on.”

Brendan’s keeping his feet on the ground…

He added: “I don’t want a bigger house. I love my house. I don’t want another car, I’m fine with the car I have. We have what we want.

“But what success will do is, and this is the reason we work hard at all, is it buys us more time off.”