Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Brendan O’Carroll ‘feeling tip top’ after heart attack fears

The 62-year-old actor was recently filming the Christmas special of the BBC sitcom in Glasgow when he suddenly felt unwell and called for an ambulance.

However, he is now feeling well again after the bug left him ill for 12 hours.

Brendan O’Carroll in Mrs Brown’s Boys (BBC/PA)

A spokeswoman for the actor and comedian told the Press Association that O’Carroll is “feeling tip top and relieved” and that it was nothing to do with his heart.

O’Carroll had told Ireland’s The Late Late Show: “I thought I was having a heart attack.”

He said he had to wake up his wife, Jennifer Gibney, who also stars in Mrs Brown’s Boys, at “about 2am” because he felt unwell and that it was “really, really painful”.

He said: “I said to her ‘You should call an ambulance’. We called the ambulance as we wanted to meet them on the street.

“When Jenny and I were in the lift we were still on 999. They told her to put her hand on my tonsil, to count my heartbeat.”

O’Carroll said he “had the fright of my life” and that he thought he was a “goner”.

Jennifer Gibney and Brendan O’Carroll (Anthony Devlin/PA)

“When I got in the ambulance they said ‘Well, it is not your heart ’ and I vomited it out for 12 hours. I had a very violent bug.

“I couldn’t have eaten in six months what I threw up.”