Where Fawlty Towers cast are now as John Cleese announces reboot – from £12m divorce to infamous prank call scandal
thesun.co.ukIT only took 44 years, but a Fawlty Towers reboot is finally underway. The British comedy classic, starring John Cleese as hot-tempered hotel owner Basil Fawlty, ran for just 12 episodes from 1975 to 1979, but now the star has revealed it is returning with the help of his daughter, Camilla.
Manic Basil will be seen grappling with the modern world as he runs a boutique hotel in the Fawlty Towers reboot. And the new episodes are likely to spark a bidding war between streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, as well as US and UK channels.
But after nearly 50 years, many of the original cast who made the BBC sitcom such a smash hit will sadly be missing. From bitter divorces to an infamous prank phone call scandal, here's what happened to them after the show came to an end.
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