6 d. ago Miriam Margoyles shares rare personal update after health worries

Miriam Margolyes appeared on BBC Breakfast on Saturday, where she made an emotional admission

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6 d. ago Miriam Margolyes chokes back tears after addressing health concerns

Miriam Margolyes appeared in a pre-recorded clip on BBC Breakfast, where she choked back tears

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7 d. ago Corrie star embroiled in bitter spat with Miriam Margolyes over remarks on Palestine

Evelyn Plummer actress Maureen Lipman has hit out at Miriam Margolyes after the Harry Potter star voiced her unwavering support for Palestine amid Israel's "vicious" and "genocidal" war

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1 week ago Harry Potter star 'raking it in' by farting on camera and swearing for fans

Miriam Margolyes, who played Professor Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter films, said she makes a 'lot of money' doing requests on Cameo for fans

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1 week ago Eric Idle: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live! review – mock’n’roll star’s night of nostalgia

Playhouse, EdinburghThe Monty Python man revisits his remarkable career, with songs dedicated to George Harrison and Robin Williams – and some ribbing of John CleeseA career retrospective fondly remembering a previous career retrospective: who said pop will eat itself? I enjoyed Eric Idle’s touring “one-man musical” very much: he seems like a thoroughly good egg, he’s led a remarkable entertainment life, and who’d begrudge him, now 82, the chance to bask in it – and his audience’s palpable affection – at least one more time? But even I found it a bit much when, reaching the end of this greatest hits compendium, Idle includes Monty Python’s 2014 O2 gigs in his pantheon of past glories. A show for nostalgists warmly recalling an earlier show for nostalgists? Welcome to entertainment in the age of the never-ending showbiz afterlife.In fairness to Idle, this show (called – what else? – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live!) is not about Python, it’s about him, from South Shields...

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1 week ago Miriam Margolyes says she forgives Arnold Schwarzenegger for breaking wind in her face

Blackadder actor said action star had ‘come to his senses’

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2 w. ago Piers Morgan brands John Cleese ‘hypocrite’ in angry clash over Jimmy Kimmel

Morgan clashed with the ‘Fawlty Towers’ comedian online

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2 w. ago Piers Morgan brands John Cleese ‘hypocrite’ after Jimmy Kimmel suspension comment

Morgan clashed with the ‘Fawlty Towers’ comedian online

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2 w. ago ‘A perfectly calibrated Swiss watch of cringe’: why Fawlty Towers remains the greatest ever sitcom, 50 years on

It’s the 50th anniversary of the comedy that’s so foundational for TV as a medium, it’s the Beatles for the small screen. Five decades later, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s show is still unmatchedThe first episode of Fawlty Towers was broadcast on 19 September 1975. We are now half a century distant from that point; as far away as the first episode of Fawlty Towers was from John Logie Baird’s first successful transmission of greyscale television pictures in 1925. And, while the creation of Fawlty Towers wasn’t a technical breakthrough on quite the same level, Fawlty Towers does feel almost as fundamental and foundational to the medium. Like the music of the Beatles, it’s become part of the dominant cultural language of the era.In a 2019 list compiled by the Radio Times, the show was named the greatest ever British sitcom. Has anyone ever done it better? Fifty years seems a reasonable point at which to assess the show’s legacy and conclude that they probably haven’t. And even if anyo...

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2 w. ago Miriam Margolyes says she forgives Arnold Schwarzenegger for farting in her face on set

Blackadder actor said action star had ‘come to his senses’

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on Michael Palin in Venezuela: With his boyish enthusiasm, Palin's like an octogenarian Just William!

Drenched to the skin in a cave on the edge of the Amazon forest, Michael Palin is having the time of his life. The man who once tried to sell John Cleese a dead parrot it now Britain's best-loved traveller.

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2 w. ago Miriam Margolyes shares true feelings on King Charles and admits 'we're not friends'

Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes has opened up about her relationship with King Charles in her new book The Little Book of Miriam, and says she is not his friend

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2 w. ago Miriam Margolyes says 'I am not King Charles' friend' in candid admission

Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes has opened up about her relationship with King Charles in her new book The Little Book of Miriam, and says she is not his friend

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3 w. ago Miriam Margolyes shares 'death' hope as she says there's 'no light at end of tunnel'

Harry Potter actor Miriam Margolyes has reflected on her mortality as she nears the end of her life, admitting that she "thinks about death a lot" and "wonders how she'll be remembered"

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3 w. ago Miriam Margolyes 'thinks about death a lot' in honest end of life confession

Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes has revealed how she "thinks about death a lot" in recent years as the 84-year-old acknowledges she is coming to the end of her life

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3 w. ago Miriam Margolyes reveals plans to move to Italy with her partner

‘The world around us has lost its charm,’ Miriam shared in a new interview

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3 w. ago John Cleese calls BBC comedy executives ‘clowns’ after frustrating meeting

Actor said bosses were ‘stupid’ for being too concerned with causing offence

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3 w. ago Miriam Margolyes, 84, reveals plans to quit the UK for Italy and will finally move in with her partner of 57 YEARS Heather Sutherland for the first time after living in different countries

Miriam Margolyes has revealed her plans to quit the UK for Italy to live with her long-term partner Heather Sutherland for the very first time - after her serious health woes.

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3 w. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Monty Python stars at war as Eric Idle is accused of bullying

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: John Cleese has been incensed by Idle publicly criticising their management by fellow Python Terry Gilliam's daughter Holly.

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3 w. ago John Cleese rages that British people ‘deserve better than the BBC’ as he slams comedy bosses

The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star claimed that the broadcaster has not commissioned anything truly funny in years

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