{"id":231856,"date":"2025-10-29T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231856\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:23:07","slug":"fawlty-towers-star-prunella-scales-dies-aged-93-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231856\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies aged 93 \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prunella Scales, who has died aged 93, spent most of her career performing in serious dramas by the likes of Chekov and Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>But she was best known for playing the brilliantly cutting, Sybil Fawlty, the long suffering wife of hopeless hotel boss Basil, in the sitcom Fawlty Towers.<\/p>\n<p>Only 12 episodes were ever made but repeats and international sales brought her global recognition and acclaim for the role.<\/p>\n<p>In later years, she starred in Great Canal Journeys with her husband Timothy West, but dementia forced her to step away from that series in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>We take a look back at her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prunella Scales, who has died aged 93, spent most of her career performing in serious dramas by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-231856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}