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TV star’s media firm made €1.8m before she quit her This Morning job last year Star Eilish would love old pal Rory back on Mrs Brown’s Boys
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MRS Brown’s Boys star Eilish O’carroll has admitted she’d love to see Rory Cowan back on the show.
But the much-loved actress, who plays Winnie Mcgoogan on the award-winning series, said she “doesn’t know” if her brother and
HOLLY Willoughby raked in around €1.8million in the year up to quitting This Morning.
The TV presenter helped herself to around €1.2m from her broadcasting firm Roxy Media as she stepped down from her presenting role on ITV.
Accounts published this week show she paid £329,715 (€329,715) in Corporation Tax, which means the income was around £1.6m (€1.8m) for the 12 months to the end of last August.
She quit the ITV daytime show she had helmed with Phillip Schofield for 14 years just over a month later.
Her cash reserves were revealed at £82,279 (€96,689) – down from £96,689 (€113,628) in 2022 as she took out money from the business to spend in the months since she left her major TV role.
As well as This Morning, she had earned a large six-figure sum fronting ITV shows such as Dancing on Ice.
Holly, 43, also has ad deals with stores Dunelm and M&S, along with speaking engagements, plus lucrative deals for ads on social media.
The company books were signed off by her husband Dan Baldwin, who show creator Brendan has written a mini-series again this year.
But the Dubliner admits she’d love to see old pal Rory – who quit the show as Rory Brown in 2017 – back on the show in the future.
She told us: “He’s great fun. It would be lovely, but I actually don’t know.” But Rory, 64, announced after appearing on Dancing With is a TV executive. They will be the last financial figures which include her work in ITV daytime.
Early last October the mum-ofthree announced she had quit This Morning after Schofield left in May. She said: “I now feel I have to make this decision for me and my family.”
The move came after a security guard accused of an alleged international plot to kidnap Holly was remanded in custody.
Gavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field in Harlow, Essex, appeared at Chelmsford magistrates court accused of “soliciting to commit murder and incitement to commit kidnap”.
The dad-of-two was accused of plotting online with a man in the US to commit crimes against the star. A trial date of June 24 has been set.
Holly’s TV career has restarted after she hosted Dancing on Ice at the start of this year and is working on Netflix series Bear Hunt with Bear Grylls.
Other business interests include her online Wylde Moon company, seen by some fans as her equivalent of Gwyneth Paltrow’s brand Goop.
I now feel I have to make this decision for my family HOLLY WILLOUGHBY ON LEAVING FLAGSHIP SHOW
The Stars that he would be retiring from acting, pouring cold water on a return to the BBC show.
He said in January: “I’m now officially retired.
“I have a contract with Fair City for this year and I’m doing that but anything else I’m asked to do, and it’s been a few things that I’ve been asked to do, I’m not doing any of them. I’m finished.
“I’m just going to enjoy myself now and do a lot of travelling.”
But Eilish laughed when Rory announced his step back, adding: “Definitely he said, ‘I am retiring’, and I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it’ because every time I turn the radio on, I hear your voice and then there’s an interview with you.”