News about Prunella Scales

"It's not just Pru forgetting stuff." You wake up to the fact that you've got a grandchild you'd forgotten about a long time ago. Timothy West and Prunella Scales spoke with Timothy West and Prunella Scales in an enthralling dementia battle

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 18, 2024
Tim and Prudence's time on Great Canal Journeys turned Tim and Prudence, as they are best known, into bona fide national treasures. Pru's dementia diagnosis made it especially poignant. But who will care for her as Tim grows old?

According to the show's floor manager, the real hotel in Fawlty Towers was a hub for 'gambling, illicit encounters, and crime.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 12, 2024
The original Fawlty Towers hotel was a 'hub for 'gambling, illicit encounters, and violence.' Tony Guyan, the show's floor manager, appeared on the Chatabix podcast this week, where he made a rumor of what was going on at the show. In the sitcom's exterior shots, Wooburn Grange Country Club in Bourne's End, Buckinghamshire, which burned in 1991, was used for exterior shots.

Prunella Scales and Timothy West's son pays touching tribute to his parents as they celebrate their diamond wedding with a 'little do', saying: 'How can 60 have so many factors and still be indivisible?'

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 12, 2023
Timothy West, 89, and Prunella Scales, 91, who has suffered with vascular dementia for more than 20 years, recently celebrated one of the best marriages in showbiz this week, with their son Samuel West who has fought his followers on X. The couple, who were wed on October 26th, 1963, still live in the Wandsworth home where they raised their three children. Images: Tim West and Prunella were both photographed earlier in their marriage, this week. Inset: pictured with one of their two sons as a baby)

Timothy West, 89, reveals a surprising truth about his 60-year marriage to Prunella Scales, 91, as she discusses her dementia

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 21, 2023
Timothy West has revealed the enigmatic clue to Prunella Scales' 60-year marriage. When working on a script together, the Coronation Street and EastEnders actor Prunella met Prunella, 91. The couple married last month in 1963, a decade ago.

Prunella Scales, 91, who has dementia, gives husband Timothy West a tender kiss on his 60th wedding anniversary, saying, 'Thanks for being with me for so long.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 15, 2023
The couple chatted with BBC Breakfast's Colin Paterson about their continuing love affair, with Prunella, 91, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia more than 20 years ago, giving her husband a kiss on the cheek as she wondered how life had been with him for six decades - which left some of the morning show's viewers a little damp. (Pictured: Prunella Scales and Timothy West on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday)

The best 100 TV shows ever created have been rediscovered (and no surprise)... But does YOUR favorite appear on the list?

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 3, 2023
The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine has reached yet another magnificent milestone - this month we turn 30! We asked you to share our top ten TV shows so we could compile our definitive list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows voted for by you.

Timothy West, 88, candidly details the heartbreaking effect dementia has had on his wife Prunella Scales, 91, as he says: 'I miss her companionship as my best friend'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 26, 2023
Timothy West has confessed that he was missing the 'companionship' of his best friend and wife Prunella Scales during her dementia battle. Since she doesn't remember, the actor, 88, who appeared in EastEnders and Coronation Street, has said he can no longer discuss plays or concerts with his wife because she doesn't remember. Timothy says he longs for her 'creative energy' and the bold plans she had and parties she had, and that she would love to go to with people she had just met.

Timothy West, 88, reveals plans to throw a diamond anniversary celebration with wife Prunella Scales, 91, as he opens up on how they cope with her dementia: 'Most parties come to her these days'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 24, 2023
Timothy West has shared an open view into how he and wife Prunella Scales cope with their dementia a decade after she was diagnosed. The actor, 88, admitted that he misses his wife's "companionship and creative vigor" as well as the creative concepts she had and parties she would love to attend. 'Most parties came to Pru this days,' the Coronation Street and Emmerdale actress said, as they celebrated her birthday with a garden party last year.

How Peter Sellers demanded Prunella Scales out for dinner five times and says she's never regretted turning him down. The year's most touching celebrity memoir is a collection of stories about passion and humour

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 11, 2023
TIMOTHY WEST: Timothy West's book chronicled how Prunella Scales (left and right with Mr West) almost dropped out of her role as Sybil in Fawlty Towers, making her one of Britain's best-loved actresses. He relates how they fell in love on the set of a BBC play and devised a complex plot to bring an end to his first marriage in this final extract. Mr West said that actor Peter Sellers (inset) wanted to take her on a date months after he and Mrs Scales became a couple.

'We have exactly the same conversation every day of the week, and it's something I never tire of': Timothy WEST chronicles Prunella Scales' death and how he discovered joy in life's simple pleasures.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 8, 2023
TIMOTHY WEST: In the spring of 2001, when Pru was touring a new play, this was the first time I noticed something amiss. The company was based in Greenwich, South-East London, this week. Despite Pru's age, her passion for touring was greater than ever. And the first night in Greenwich was a success: she gave a barnstorming appearance as always, and the notices the following day confirmed this.

RICHARD EDEN: How Fay Weldon, the beloved author, left just £210,000 to her children after her death at 91

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 11, 2023
RICHARD EDEN: She made a point of depreciation in early adulthood, including being a tenant of slum landlord Peter Rachman, to become a celebrated novelist whose most popular book, The Life and Loves of a Sherriff, starring Meryl Stetch and Roseanne Barr, was dramatized both as a television series and a big screen. Despite further commercial success - three more of her books were adapted for television - Fay Weldon's dazzling, inimitable Fay Weldon, who died in January aged 91, left just £210,000. There were no bequests to colleagues and wider families, as well as Prunella Scales, the Fawlty Towers actress. Rather, nearly all was bequeathed to her three surviving sons, Nic, Daniel and Sam, as well as her son Tom's younger brother, who died in 2019, causing her intense pain. "Intriguingly, the will, which Fay signed in February 2020, also mentions Nick Fox, her third and last husband, whom she accused of "coercion and financial mismanagement" eight months later. Those were the reasons, she explained in a letter to friends that she was divorcing him.

John Cleese reveals plot details for upcoming Fawlty Towers reboot

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 15, 2023
When the comedy makes its comeback, John Cleese is supposed to kill off his Fawlty Towers character Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil. Since the second and final series ended more than 40 years ago, a revival was in the works in February. Actor John, 83, appeared in the original 12 episodes of the sitcom from 1975 to 1979, with Prunella Scales, now 90 and living with Alzheimer's, as Sybil.

In John Cleese's comeback, ten Fawlty Towers jokes that they will not make it past TV stars

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 9, 2023
Fawlty Towers had already won over a large number of fans when it first appeared on television in 1975, following Basil's flops in Torquay. Basil was consistently mocked by Cleese's character, as well as their marriage, during the sitcom's 12 episodes, up until 1979. However, despite its success, writing the new series could be daunting, with some concerned that the original's slapstick humor would be ineffective among 21st century viewers.

Everything we know about the long-awaited Fawlty Towers reboot so far

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 8, 2023
The long-awaited reboot's details are being tightly wrapped, but it will, of course, see the return of the inept hotel manager Basil Fawlty, played by John, 83. When Fawlty Towers first appeared on televisions in 1975, the tragedy of Basil, a highly strung Torquay hotelier, shocked it.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Anthony Blunt's intrigue is still unveiled

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 28, 2022
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Anthony Blunt, a former Soviet spy who was exposed by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 as a traitor but not fired him, according to Alan Bennett. In The London Review of Books, he recalls talking to Queen's secretary Lord Charteris about his play A Question Of Attribution, in which the monarch talks for a long time as the audience remains left wondering if she knew she was a traitor. 'I gather the point was whether the Queen knew and whether Blunt knew that the Queen was aware,' Charteris told Bennett. "They all knew," the author states, adding: "But that, of course, does not have to be said." BENNETT has expressed humour in a story about Prunella Scales, a CBE who died in A Question Of Attribution, though she did not appear in BENNETT. "I suppose you should be doing this," writes Bennett. In anyone's book, there's a joking wisecrack.' Alan Ashton, a former deputy editor of GUEST, has condemned Today's broadcasting by BBC Radio 4's Today. 'I would have to resign or take annual leave if "guest-editors," including Lord Botham and Jamie Oliver, rants.' It is an insult to BBC journalists, whose job is being abused. After all, many of us would like to be a guest-speaker of the House of Commons, guest-Chancellor of the Exchequer, or even guest-manager of Arsenal or Manchester United. However, these posts are thankfully left to the professionals. Why can't the BBC be the same?'

Samuel West discusses mother Prunella Scales' dementia diagnosis

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 23, 2022
Samuel West has revealed that he is preparing for the day his mother, Prunella Scales, who has dementia, will not remember him or her family members. Siegfried Farnon, 56, stars in All Creatures Great and Small's Christmas special, where Skeldale House will hold festive celebrations during WW2 with a young evacuee. Samuel, along with his actress mother Prunella, 90, and actor Timothy Timothy 88, will be tuning in on the show on December 24.

Prunella Scales, according to Timothy West, is still enjoying life after her Alzheimer's illness

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 25, 2022
Prunella Scales is'living life' after her Alzheimer's disease diagnosis in 2014, her husband Timothy West has revealed. The actress, 90, is celebrating her 90th birthday by having a massive party with 150 people, and the married couple have just been Greek island hopping. Prunella, who is best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has retired from acting in early 2020 after a 2014 Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.

At The Oldie of the Year Awards, Prunella Scales, 90, makes a rare outing with Timothy West, 88

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 23, 2022
The actress, 90, delivered a smart figure when she and her longtime husband, 88, topped the celebrity-studded guest list at the annual festival, which attracted a variety of celebrities. Prunella, the actress best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has retired early in 2020 after she suffered with Alzheimer's disease in 2014.

On All Creatures Great And Small, there's still a lot of drama

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 2, 2022
On September 15, Creatures Great and Small will return to Channel 5 again. The series is back in a modern twist, with women at the forefront of action. As a studio set, the weekend has been allowed to a former warehouse where James Herriot's fictional veterinary practice Skeldale House was built. Left to Right: - Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley), Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West), James Herriott (Nicholas Ralph), Helen Alderson (played by Rachel Shenton) and Tristan Farnon (Callum Woodhouse)