Acting legend John Cleese, 84, spotted being pushed through the airport in a wheelchair as he arrives in LA
JOHN Cleese was spotted being wheeled through LAX in a wheelchair after touching down from a long flight.
The 84-year-old Monty Python legend was supported by ground staff after the lengthy flight, and kept his head down as he made his way through Los Angeles airport.
The star cut a casual but ever-smart figure in a pair of jeans and a cream suit jacket.
Keeping his hand luggage on his lap, John looked locked-in on his phone, which he kept cradled in his hands.
While a member of LAX security walked in front of him, a staff member wheeled the chair while his aide walked behind him with another carry on bag.
Cleese has been keeping himself busy this year with a musical continuation of one of his most iconic shows, Fawlty Towers.
The show opened in May, with Cleese passing on the leading role of bumbling and angry Basil to a new actor.
He also celebrated 45 years of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, which became an international comedy phenomenon.
Ahead of the anniversary, Cleese admitted in March that he used to a medium to get back in touch with one of his former comedy troupe members, Graham Chapman.
Chapman, who died 35 years ago from cancer, reportedly spoke to Cleese from beyond the grave during an opportune chat.
Chapman, who played the lead in Python movie Life of Brian, referred to stuff which the medium could not have known about, according to Cleese.
He recalled: “She said, ‘Who’s Graham?’. I said, ‘Is he Graham Chapman?’. She says, ‘He’s going on about a pipe’. I said, ‘Yes. He always smoked a pipe’.
“Then she said, ‘He’s rolling up his trouser leg’. And I said, ‘Yes, that’s a sketch we did about the Freemasons’. I know she didn’t see it. It was broadcast once or twice. She said, ‘He’s waving a parrot at you’.”
That was a reference to their dead parrot sketch. But on his next visit she said he was waving a monkey’s striped tail.
Cleese claims it was a ring-tailed lemur named after him.
He went on: “It’s called ‘Cleese’s woolly lemur’. There’s no way she would have known that.”
Away from the spotlight, Cleese has been appreciating the animals in his life – sharing his love of new family pet Harry, a dog adopted by his daughter.
Posting the new addition on Instagram, Cleese was seen smothering the dog with love as the small pup sat patiently on his lap while he was in a wheelchair, and later in the car.
“This is Harry. He was rescued by my daughter @camillacleese and I adore him,” he wrote.
Camilla is taking after her father, and is based in Los Angeles where she is making a name for herself as a stand-up comedian.