Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Danny O’Carroll reveals how he lost stone in 37 days after feeling ‘disgusted’ in Covid weight gain

MRS Brown’s Boys star Danny O’Carroll has revealed how he lost over a stone in just 37 days.

The actor, who plays Buster Brady in the hit BBC sitcom, explained how packing on the pounds started getting him down in lockdown.

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Danny recently lost over a stone in just 37 days

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Danny plays Buster Brady in Mrs Brown’s BoysCredit: Alan Peebles

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Danny appeared on Ireland AM this morningCredit: Virgin Media One

But since taking the leap and getting active, Danny said that he already feels better in himself.

He said: “Yeah I’m delighted with myself. It was a bit of hard work but I’m getting there.

“I’m not there yet but I will get there, I’m determined to get where I want to be so a little bit more work yet.

“I put on a lot of weight over the lockdown. The first lockdown I went and I bought a bike and I started trying to cycle for a while and I got really fed up with it.

“I wasn’t a man for going to gyms or anything like that so I put on a lot of weight then over lockdown and I was disgusted with myself.

“All the shows got cancelled again this year and that’s one of the reasons I started doing the workouts because I was sitting at home doing nothing.

“I was starting to feel sorry for myself, getting down and it sort of gave me a kick up the a**e to start going again and do something to feel good about myself.

“I never weighed as heavy in my life so I decided to invest in a treadmill.”

ONLINE JOURNEY

However to stay motivated the Dubliner, 37, took his weight loss journey online.

He said: “I got the treadmill and I looked at it for about a week before I used it and it was little comments from my dad that told me not to bother.

“That I’ve got the O’Carroll genes, big bellies, big arses and it made me determined to get on the treadmill.

“I got on the treadmill and started doing it and then I was thinking to myself, ‘How am I going to keep at it?’

“That’s my problem, I’ll start something then I’ll just get fed up. I decided to start posting it on Instagram as I go and it’s just taken off.

“I can’t believe the reaction it’s getting on Instagram, the messages I’m getting.

“I started off on Instagram as a real selfish type of thing to do to try and get people to motivate me to keep going but actually the tables have turned and people are saying how much I’m motivating them to get up and start doing stuff.

“So we’re helping each other and it’s a really great feeling.”

LIFESTYLE CHANGE

Danny appeared on Ireland AM this morning and when quizzed about what changes he made to his life, the actor admitted he has jst “changed things around”.

He said: ” get up early and I try and get to bed early.

“I eat two/three meals a day, if I can hold off the third meal I will but most of the time I’m usually starving so I’ll eat it.

“But I have snacks in between and all I do is count my calories on MyFitnessPal app and that just keeps me going for the whole day.

“I’m not an expert in health and fitness, far from it.

“I think that’s why it’s so popular on Instagram with me at the minute because I am just a normal person trying to lose weight.

“I’m not a gym freak, I don’t do the pre workouts, post workout drinks and all that.

“I don’t know anything about it and I don’t want to know anything about it.

“I’m just enjoying what I’m doing and I think that’s why people are taking to it so well.”

MISSING FAMILY

Danny got emotional when he spoke about missing his dad and Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll.

The pair have been separated for over seven months as Danny resides in Donegal with wife Amanda and their two children, Jamie and Blake, while his dad is currently over in the US.

Danny said: “I miss him. He’s my best friend, he’s the best dad ever and I haven’t seen him in so long I just.. I miss him. I can’t wait to see him.

“He’s in good form, he’s missing us, he’s missing the kids, his grandkids.

“He’s keeping himself busy at the minute, he’s doing a movie over in Atlanta at the moment so he’s busy. That’ll take his mind off things but it’s tough for him too.

“He misses us as well and we’ll get there.

“There’s so many people in the same boat as us and we’ll be coming out of this soon and everything hopefully will be coming back to normal.”

LIVE SHOWS

However Danny doesn’t thank his dad when he throws curveballs his way during the live recordings of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

He explained: “I think we have a live episode we’re going to be shooting for the BBC for Halloween in October.

“I do be a nervous wreck doing the live shows so we’ll see how that goes.

“There is a script but we’ll get it three days before we go live and there’s loads of bits in the script that will be sort of blocked out.

“He[Brendan] calls them a BOB – a bit of business – so you don’t know what he’s going to do but you know he’s going to do something.

“So you sort of try and prepare yourself to see what he comes out with.

“But during the live shows when you’re going live in front of millions. It’s just a different ball game altogether, it’s so nerve wrecking.

SPECIALS WILL BE BACK

“You just do not want to be that person to mess up and he is backstage like a giggly little child waiting to get us.

“You’re just begging, ‘Dad please not me, not today. Please just let me get on with it’.”

And Danny confirmed that the much loved Christmas specials will be back again this year with live shows to return the following one.

He said: “Then we have the Christmas specials coming up again in December.

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“They haven’t gone on sale yet but I can 100 per cent guarantee we’ll be doing the 3Arena in Dublin and the Odyssey in Belfast.

“We’ll be doing Belfast and Dublin usually around Christmas so Christmas next year I’d say it’ll be happening.

“It better happen next year, I can’t do another tour cancelled, no way.”