John Cleese shares tongue-in-cheek apology over Fawlty Towers reboot: ‘I truly meant no hurt’

John Cleese has shared a tongue-in-cheek apology for his announcement of a Fawlty Towers reboot, after the information upset hundreds of followers.

Cleese, 83, who wrote and acted within the authentic ’70s comedy sequence, which he developed along with his then-wife, Connie Booth, shared a joking message to Twitter, insisting he “meant no harm” by the concept.

“I must apologise. I had no idea that the idea of writing a new sitcom with my daughter would cause so much anger and distress. I truly meant no harm,” he wrote.

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“Naively I thought it might be fun. But I feel terrible about having released this tide of negative emotion. Please forgive me.”

Cleese revealed the information of the sequence revival two weeks in the past, saying he could be writing and showing within the new sequence alongside his comic daughter Camilla Cleese, 39.

From there, information unfold that the sequence could be developed by US studio Castle Rock, with Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner additionally engaged on the venture with the Cleeses.

While there have been followers who expressed delight on the concept of the ’70s sequence being rebooted greater than 40 years later, there have been many who did not.

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“This is going to be a train wreck, but not just any train wreck, a train driving through a huge pile of sh–t into a nuclear reactor that creates a mushroom cloud that engulfs the country, while simultaneously showering us in… bits of train,” wrote one particular person on Reddit.

“John Cleese needs to sit down,” they added.

“Let me guess. It’s going to be about the insanity of ‘political correctness gone mad’,” steered one other. “Old man moaning about minorities is not what we need.”

Others famous Cleese has misplaced his sparkle in public notion over the years attributable to his more and more conservative and problematic views.

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In 2020, Cleese was accused of creating transphobic feedback on Twitter when he expressed help for Harry Potter creator JK Rowling throughout her personal Twitter controversy on the time.

“I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans folks. I just hope they’re happy and that people treat them kindly,” Cleese tweeted.

“Right now I’m more focussed on threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK, the appalling British press, the revelations about police brutality…”

Last yr Cleese was referred to as out for making offensive slavery jokes, which resulted in him having his microphone taken away from him on the SXSW competition in Austin, Texas.

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“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese mentioned. “You do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”

Cleese managed to proceed earlier than his microphone was fully taken away from him, additionally managing a joke about world warming.

“The thing is, I’m going to be dead soon. That’s why I’m in favour of global warming – I don’t want to be cold ever again,” he mentioned.

Cleese’s feedback these days haven’t left followers in good spirits in regards to the upcoming sequence revival of Fawlty Towers, which sits within the gray of at this time’s requirements of political correctness itself. In truth, the sequence noticed an episode faraway from the British streaming website UKTV in 2020 attributable to the usage of racial slurs.

Fawlty Towers star and spouse not anticipated to be in new sequence