"Well I may be an idiot, but I'm no fool."
He was once married to the cute girl who played the maid in Fawlty Towers (Connie Booth). She also played the “carrot nose” witch in The Holy Grail.
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Interesting that she was a psychotherapist, as John Cleese has reportedly suffered with depression for many years. I wonder if it had anything to do with how they met. They divorced in 1978.
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Connie Booth
Connie Booth (born 1939/40[1] or 1941[2][3] or 1944)[4] is an American-born retired writer, actress, comedian and psychotherapist based in Britain.
She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including her role as Polly Sherman on BBC2’s Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese.
For 30 years Booth declined to talk about Fawlty Towers until she agreed to participate in a documentary about the series for the digital channel Gold in 2009.[5] ...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Booth