John Cleese has seemingly announced he is leaving X / Twitter , naming Elon Musk in his farewell message. On Monday (9 September), the Fawlty Towers star, who recently said he is “surprisingly poor” after his successful five-decade career, did not give a clear reason as to why he had decided to leave, but he is the latest in a long line of celebrities who have decided to quit the social media site . Since Musk’s takeover of the site, Elton John, Stephen Fry Whoopi Goldberg, Gigi Hadid and the Wire creator David Simon have all abandoned ship.
It seems Cleese can now be added to that list following a post that read: “Good bye, Twitter And thanks for dinner, Elon.” While his fans flooded his replies section with posts expressing sadness that he appeared to be leaving – and gratitude at having got to “interact” with him in recent years – the Monty Python star’s daughter was not so convinced. Comedian Camilla Cleese, whose mother is Barbara Trentham, wrote: “This won’t age well.
See you in the morning!” John and Camilla are both working on a reboot of Fawlty Towers that will “explore how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world”. At the press launch of a West End play based on three episodes of the sitcom, the actor revealed that plans to revive the show were still in motion. He also told reporters that Fawlty Towers ’ racial slurs had been removed from the production in an attempt to avoid offending .