London - The hotel which inspired Fawlty Towers is up for sale for £1,5-million (about R16-million) for lovers of the British cult television series created by actor John Cleese.
Cleese modelled his character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, a former owner of the Hotel Gleneagles, in Torquay, on the southwest English coast in Devon, where his Monty Python comedy troupe had stayed back in 1971.
Cleese described Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met".
According to its real estate agents Christie and, Gleneagles went on the market this week and has already generated "quite a bit of interest".
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"With its strong link to the television series and very high repeat business, we are expecting a good level of interest from prospective buyers," Christie's agent Peter Addyman said.
In March, local councillors rejected plans to knock down the three-star, 41-room hotel to make way for luxury flats. - Sapa-AFP
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