He’s been the nation’s favourite foul-mouthed mammy for over a decade, but this festive season Brendan O’Carroll won’t be donning the housecoat.

The Mrs Brown’s Boys star has cancelled the show’s 2026 Christmas and New Year specials, and postponed planned live dates, after needing urgent jaw surgery.

A CT scan revealed two fractures in his lower jawbone, requiring immediate surgery and months of recovery, with O’Carroll telling fans ‘it is with sincere regret’ he had to pull the plug.

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Brendan O’Carroll as Agnes Brown. Pic: Graeme Hunter/BBC Studios/BOC

But while the Finglas funnyman takes time to recover, his company finances may also be in need of a little TLC.

Recent accounts for three companies linked to O’Carroll and wife Jennifer Gibney paint a mixed picture. Mrs Browns Boys Limited posted what the accounts term a ‘deficiency of assets’ of €867,464 for 2024, meaning its liabilities exceeded its assets by that amount, only a modest improvement on 2023’s €887,676 shortfall.

Things look bleaker at another of Brendan’s Irish-registered companies, BOC Productions Limited, where the numbers have gone from bad to worse. Net liabilities grew from €4,354,103 in 2023 to €4,987,712 in 2024, an increase of €633,609 in twelve months. Creditors due within the year sat at €5.7 million, dwarfing the company’s current assets of just €522,950.

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Brendan O’Carroll. Pic: John Phillips/Getty Images for the NTA’s

But it’s not all bad news on the books. A third company, BOC-Pix Limited, remains the healthier of the trio, still sitting on net assets of €1,349,028, though that figure fell by €206,499 from €1,555,527 the year before.

Online estimates of O’Carroll’s personal net worth have swung wildly over the years, from €20 million to as much as €100 million, though none of the celebrity finance sites peddling those numbers show much in the way of receipts.

What is on the record, in black and white via Companies Registration Office (CRO) filings, is that the corporate side of the Mrs Brown’s Boys business has significant liabilities across two of its three companies, despite the show’s long-running popularity and successful arena tours.

Extra.ie has reached out to Brendan O’Carroll and companies for comment.