Hotel That Inspired John Cleese's Classic Fawlty Towers Demolished

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Link: Hotel that inspired John Cleese's classic Fawlty Towers demolished | UK news | The Guardian

 

The seaside hotel in Torquay that inspired John Cleese to create the beloved British sitcom Fawlty Towers is being demolished to make way for retirement homes.

 

Cleese, co-writer of the television series, stayed at the hotel in 1971 when he was in the area filming Monty Python’s Flying Circus. He and other members of the comedy team were booked into the hotel and were amazed at the chilly greeting they received from their hosts, Donald Sinclair and his wife, Beatrice.

 

 

The other Pythons moved to another hotel but Cleese stayed on and later used the Sinclairs as templates for Basil and Sybil Fawlty. He once described Sinclair as “the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met”...