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Former pals Twink and Rory Cowan embroiled in bitter feud after massive bust-up

Twink has branded him as 'Rory The Rat'

Former showbiz pals Twink and Rory Cowan are embroiled in a bitter feud, after the pair got into a massive fight.

The former Mrs Brown’s Boys star and the Panto queen are feuding following a falling out over plans for a new clip show on RTÉ.

Speaking to The Irish Sun, Rory revealed that their fight happened after he offered to help her career with a TV project – but now, he wants “nothing more to do with that woman”.

Meanwhile, Twink has accused Rory of kicking her to the curb, like he did to Brendan O’Carroll, and branded him as “Rory the Rat”.

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The pair have been pals for years, and Rory even helped Twink with her mortgage arrears, but following a series of disagreements – their friendship ended in May 2017.

Then in December, Twink wrote Rory a 19-page letter, in which she accused him of taking her job in the Olympia Christmas panto.

Rory stepped in to replace Al Porter, after he was forced to quit the stage show following allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Twink’s letter read, “To add insult to injury, you’re now working instead of me for Xmas. In my role, in my shoes, in my job — in my Olympia Theatre. And they say there’s a God.”

Speaking to the Irish Sun, Rory said, “The letter is incredible. I want nothing more to do with that woman. The whole reason I got involved was because Twink was losing her house at the time. I was telling her I can get you back on TV.”

“I went to RTE and got Twink a pilot for her own TV show. There was a pilot, then the option for six episodes and a Christmas special. She would have had money and been back on TV. There was no money in it for me. I was trying to help her keep her house.”

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“Everything was there waiting to go. There was a film crew waiting, we had a director who had been nominated for a Bafta but then some issues arose. She asked for a PA. She wanted somewhere to rehearse,” he continued.

“All we needed was for her to pick her clips and she didn’t do it. Then she told me she had written a play which was going to be the biggest thing ever. She even went on television talking about the row last Friday.”

Rory explained how he contacted Twink in May last year, to say that he wanted nothing more to do with the clip show project.

“I texted Adele and said, ‘I am going to leave you to do things your way. I don’t understand what you are doing but it’s your business and not mine. You take the project whatever way you want to take it.

“I’m done with you and it and when the show is broadcast, I will enjoy watching it.’ I didn’t pull the project because I wasn’t involved in that end of it. I wasn’t producing it. It was her TV show. I had no role in it.”

In response, Twink said, “I will never speak to Rory as long as I live again. He is a rat. In my phone . . . he is in my phone as Rory The Rat Cowan. He’s a rat.”

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She continued, “Rory already ditched Brendan. Rory is doing a line of ditching his friends. He did sabotage (the project). It’s a year ago. He did sabotage it but you know what? As I said, sometimes the good guys win.

“Of course I had demands, I wanted to get the programme made. Of course I deserved a PA, I wanted someone to type up the stuff I was writing for hours.”

On Rory’s claims about “not looking at clips”, Twink said, “The clips weren’t digitised yet, you couldn’t look at them. He didn’t understand that. It’s nothing to do with stardom, It goes much deeper than that.”

Responding to this, Rory said, “Everything I have done has been successful. I was the producer of the Mrs Brown stage show, and an executive producer of Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie. I got Twink a pilot of her own show. I went to RTE and they said it was a great idea.”

Rory also denied ditching Brendan O’Carroll, by insisting that he quit the show to look after his ill mother.

At present, Twink is hopeful that the clip series will air, and revealed that a recent meeting in RTÉ went very well.

“The meeting went brilliantly. A major TV company in the UK will now be producing it. I kept this under wraps for a whole year. Now, no thanks to him, I am in recovery mode, no thanks to Rory,” she said.

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