Veteran comedian John Cleese has revealed that he had a successful operation to remove a cancerous tumour last week.
The 80-year-old Fawlty Towers star previously had a prostate cancer scare in 1996, an epiphanic moment that made him "live on the basis that I might at any given moment fall under a bus".
Posting on Twitter, Cleese wrote: "Had a minor operation on Friday. A surgeon cut a small cancerous bit out of my leg. Very minor.
"At my age this sort of thing happens about once a week. He did a beautiful job, sewed it up and said: 'Tis but a scratch.'"
Earlier this year Cleese led tributes to Monty Python co-star Terry Jones following his death after a battle with dementia, praising his "many talents and endless enthusiasm", adding: "Two down, four to go."
Neil Wilkes
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