{"id":410962,"date":"2025-09-09T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:14:15","slug":"miriam-margolyes-says-shes-never-forgiven-bitter-john-cleese-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410962\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Margolyes says she\u2019s never forgiven \u2018bitter\u2019 John Cleese | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/miriam-margolyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miriam Margolyes<\/a> says she has never forgiven &#8220;bitter old man&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/john-cleese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Cleese<\/a> for the &#8220;pain&#8221; she experienced while at university.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on The Life of Bryony podcast, released on Monday, 8 September, the actor, 84, described her time in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cambridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge<\/a> Footlights student sketch comedy troupe alongside Cleese and Graham Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>Margolyes recalled how her mother rang a newspaper to say how proud she was of her daughter&#8217;s admission in an interview that &#8220;got up the nose&#8221; of the Monty Python creators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t like me, and they showed that by refusing to talk to me or look at me off stage,&#8221; Margolyes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never forgotten it\u2026 I mean, it makes no difference now. Graham\u2019s dead, and John is, unfortunately, a bitter old man. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should let it go, but I remember the pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Independent has approached Mr Cleese&#8217;s representative for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miriam Margolyes says she has never forgiven &#8220;bitter old man&#8221; John Cleese for the &#8220;pain&#8221; she experienced while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175467663029312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}