John Cleese has explained the beginning of his now notorious spat with Piers Morgan, which has seen the pair of them frequently at loggerheads on social media.
The ‘Fawlty Towers’ star tells Radio Times how it all started:
“I always thought he was an awful creep,so I pretended that I hadn’t seen him in a restaurant but it didn’t work.
“He then asked me when I was going to be funny again. I just didn’t want to have an encounter with him
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