Eighties heart-throb Paul Nicholas looks unrecognisable as the Major and Adam ... trends now
His curly blonde locks and chiselled jawline won him heartthrob status in the 80s during his time on Just Good Friends.
But now more than 40 years later Paul Nicholas is playing a very different role as the bumbling old Major in John Cleese’s stage adaptation of his BBC hit show Fawlty Towers.
The 79-year-old said: ‘Well, I’m at that stage in my life where Peter Pan is no longer an option.
‘I’m at the age where these kinds of roles come up - I played Colonel Pickering recently and that’s not dissimilar.’
His comments come as John Cleese revealed it took twenty minutes for him and his then-wife, Connie Booth, to come up with the concept for Fawlty Towers.
Paul Nicholas was a heartthrob in the early 80s wit his chiseled jaw and curly blonde hair but he's now playing bumbling old Major in John Cleese ’s stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers
John Cleese with the cast of the West End show. Right to Left: Victoria Fox, John Cleese, Hemi Yeroham, Adam Jackson-Smith and Anna-Jane Casey
John Cleese with the original cast of Fawlty Towers, the hit BBC sitcom
John Cleese was all smiles as he arrived at the sneak peak of the West End show dressed in a pair of blue jeans with dark brown and grey trainers, a plain black t-shirt, and a light beige jacket
Adam Jackson-Smith (left) plays Basil Fawlty in the new theatrical adaptation and stars opposite Paul Nicholas
Cleese and Nicholas posing together and smiling despite the gloomy weather. Nicholas donned a smart suit with grey trousers and a black double-breasted jacket with gold buttons to compliment his gold and blue tie
It comes as the West End stage adaptation of the hit BBC series will have its first run on Saturday and Cleese declared, 'It's much better than it was on television.'
Reflecting on how the show came about, the 84-year-old said: ‘I had lunch with Jimmy Gilmore, the BBC director and producer, and said I didn’t want to do any more Monty Pythons.
‘I said: “I’d like to do something with my wife because we laugh at the same things and she’s a wonderful actress and great at dialogue.”
‘He told me to go away and talk to her and said he would commission.
‘Connie and I had a chat that lasted about twenty minutes and we agreed we were going to set it in this hotel that we’d stayed in when the Pythons had gone down to Torquay to shoot for the Monty Python show. Connie was in the hotel quite a lot which people forget.'
The 12-episode sitcom is based on a real-life hotel owner, Donald Sinclair, who ran the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and the couple became
