{"id":119325,"date":"2025-11-05T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119325\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:36:07","slug":"john-cleese-pays-tribute-to-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/119325\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese pays tribute to co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Fawlty Towers actor John Cleese, best known for playing hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the classic British sitcom, has paid tribute to his on-screen wife Prunella Scales on the BBC Breakfast sofa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Cleese said Scales was &#8220;very nice and very English&#8221;, before joking that she was always apologising for everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The actress <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cvgwv8jjjyno\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died at her home in London<\/a> at the age of 93, after being diagnosed with vascular dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement, her sons Samuel and Joseph said she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fawlty Towers actor John Cleese, best known for playing hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the classic British sitcom,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-119325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}