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Romeo Coates

THOUGH LAZY Journalists have failed to put two and two together, isn’t it high time this portly octogenarian posing as “John Cleese” in 2023 was exposed as the imposter he surely is?

Not content with wanting to disastrously resurrect Basil Fawlty, I gather the troublesome doppelgänger’s also plotting similarly calamitous stage adaptations of A Fish Called Wanda and Life of Brian, while ruthlessly assisted by a striking American blonde.

As evidence mounts to finally prove the real Mr Cleese disappeared in 1989, it’s alarmingly clear this elderly chancer will stop at nothing to sabotage a great man’s legacy.

★CONTRARY TO CYNICAL mutterings, outgoing baftachair Mr Majumdar clarified that his

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