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Wendy Van Der Plank's had quite the transformation- 32 years after she played Wizadora. In the ITV show, viewers followed Wizadora, a trainee wizard who took a while to get used to casting spells with her magic wand and needed a lot of guidance. Her character wore a vast array of quirky costumes, from rainbow-coloured jumpers to a triangle patterned wide-necked jumpsuit.The other cast members wore equally unusual and colourful ensembles while on the show, keeping kids entertained Now, although Wendy's kept her dark hair and fringe, she's grown her locks longer and now sports a pair of glasses.

Fawlty Towers.Confirmation of the new incarnation of the beloved comedy came in February, when Cleese revealed he had written a two-hour play based on three episodes from the series – ‘The Hotel Inspector’, ‘The Germans’ and ‘Communication Problems’.The production will debut at London’s Apollo Theatre on May 15, nearly five decades after the first episode was filmed at the BBC Television Centre in December 1974. Tickets can be found here.And now, Cleese has said that the slurs from the original version of ‘The Germans’, which he co-wrote with Connie Booth, will be taken out of the new adaptation.In one scene of the original, the army veteran Major Gowen uses the N-word when referring to a Caribbean cricketer, and another racial slur to describe an Asian cricketer.At the press conference launching the stage show, Cleese said: “Those scenes where the Major used a couple of words you can’t use now, racial slurs they would come under, we took them out.”“There’s always a problem with comedy that you deal with the literal-minded,” he continued.

John Cleese has said the reboot will be 'hugely different' from the original.  The Monty Python star, 83, told GB News there will be a lot of 'open-air' scenes which the original series 'never got'.  The original show, written by John and Connie Booth, ran on BBC Two for two series in 1975 and 1979.

John Cleese has said his surprise revival of Fawlty Towers won’t be returning to its original home on the BBC because the UK broadcaster would not give him sufficient editorial freedom.

IT only took 44 years, but a Fawlty Towers reboot is finally underway. The British comedy classic, starring John Cleese as hot-tempered hotel owner Basil Fawlty, ran for just 12 episodes from 1975 to 1979, but now the star has revealed it is returning with the help of his daughter, Camilla. Manic Basil will be seen grappling with the modern world as he runs a boutique hotel in the Fawlty Towers reboot.

Basil Fawlty is back. A reboot of John Cleese’s British comedy sensation Fawlty Towers is in the works and Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock Entertainment is developing.

READ NEXT: Terry Jones' most famous roles from Monty Python Nude Piano Player to Prince HerbertOn the 53rd anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus' first broadcast, Daily Star takes a look at where the cast are now.John Cleese is famous for a number of characters in Monty Python, as well as his Ministry Of Funny Walks and Dead Parrott sketches.As well as reuniting with his fellow Monty Python stars for a series of dates in London in 2014, John has completed a series of tour dates with co-star Eric Idle across American between 2015 to 2016.The now 82 year old star has since appeared in a number of hit comedies including Fawlty Towers, and films such as A Fish Called Wanda, The Great Muppet Caper and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as lending his voice to the Shrek film series.He also most recently appeared as Bridwell in the 2022 film Clifford The Big Red Dog, opposite comedian Jack Whitehall.It wasn't just fame that he found during his career however, he also found love with Connie Booth, who co-wrote and starred in Fawlty Towers with her husband.The couple were married from 1968 to 1978, and welcomed a daughter together called Cynthia, who later appeared in A Fish Called Wanda alongside her dad.John later married actress and model Barbara Trentham in 1981, with who he has another daughter called Camilla.Following their divorce in 1990, the star was married to Alyce Eichelberger from 1992 to 2008, and then to Jennifer Wade from 2012.However, his career has not been without its controversies, including a row last year with the BBC, where he blasted the "deception, dishonesty and tone" of interviewer Karishma Vaswani.It is reported that he vowed to make a formal complaint, saying: "I just did an interview with BBC

Boris Johnson says that he did not realise that the Covid rules applied to him, he is telling the truth."You see, he sincerely believes that no rule has ever applied to him."This is the definition of an Asshole given by philosopher Aaron James in his book 'Assholes'."The 82-year-old is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. His career began in the 1960s when he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.In the mid-1970s, John and first wife Connie Booth co-wrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers – the programme that led to him reaching national fame when he starred in it as Basil Fawlty.