Former EastEnders and Just Good Friends star Paul Nicholas left This Morning viewers surprised when he appeared on the programme to debate his new function in Fawlty Towers
Former EastEnders star Paul Nicholas regarded unrecognisable as he appeared on This Morning(Image: Sunday Mail)
Former EastEnders star Paul Nicholas was barely recognisable when he appeared on This Morning. The veteran actor had launched a brand new performing venture in 2024, taking up the a part of the hapless previous Major in John Cleese’s theatrical adaptation of the long-lasting BBC sequence Fawlty Towers.
The then 81-year-old performer subsequently featured on the present in July that 12 months, alongside Cleese and one of his fellow cast members to talk about his enterprise with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary.
Most well-known for portraying Vincent within the Eighties TV sitcom Just Good Friends, Paul has additionally made numerous appearances in soap operas, with one among his newest components being in EastEnders, the place he performed Gavin Sullivan.
Gavin, Sharon Watts’ organic father and Kathy Beale’s ex-husband, was distinguished by his frosty white locks and piercing gaze, showing in Walford from 2015 to 2016.
Yet, throughout his dwell TV look, Paul appeared to have misplaced the vast majority of his hair and was carrying spectacles. Viewers on the time had been left surprised by the transformation, dashing to X, previously Twitter, to specific their amazement.
One consumer wrote: “When did Paul Nicholas get that old? ” while one other was merely gobsmacked: “Paul nicholas wow.”
Reactions continued flooding in, with one viewer noting: “Paul Nicholas’s hair is on the run,” whereas one other shared their disbelief: “Me when i realised that was Paul Nicholas.”
Yet through the shock, a rational viewpoint emerged, with one individual remarking: “Paul Nicholas will be 80 in December, people do get old ya know.”
The iconic Fawlty Towers made its approach to the West End stage in a revival of the TV programme that aired for 2 sequence between 1975 and 1979.
Based on the real-life hotelier Donald Sinclair who ran Torquay’s Gleneagles Hotel, it targeted on the shockingly discourteous behaviour which fascinated co-creators John Cleese (Basil) and Connie Booth (Sybil), experiences the Mirror.
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