Fawlty Towers News

Don Pittis has been a Fuller Brush man, a forest fire fighter and an Arctic ranger before discovering journalism.

THIS is an ex-Python. But, as John Cleese firmly established in this laid-back evening of comic conversation and merry memoirs, his life and career have been much more richly varied than that ground-breaking sketch comedy show or his subsequent turn as TV's Basil Fawlty.

Famous for his role as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers , the Monty Python characters and having taken over the role of Q in the James Bond films The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day , Cleese is finally happy to talk about himself.

ABC's Gillian O'Shaugnessy was both parts giddy school girl and a nervous wreck at the prospect of meeting English comedy icon John Cleese.

OfCom, the protector of modern decency and punisher of all who swear at Manuel from Fawlty Towers, have ruled that ITV were breaking the rules when they let Tulisa waggle her arm at the cameras.

SHE works for an eccentric boss in a madcap Torquay hotel where the staff's wackiness is only matched by their guests'. Meet reality TV star Elaine Gibson, who spends her working days in the hotel dubbed the real-life Fawlty Towers.