Idle (centre) revealed earlier this week that he was struggling financially despite the enormous success of the Monty Python franchise - from the Flying Circus TV programme to spin off films like Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. And in posts on social media the 80-year-old comic icon took aim at Holly Gilliam (right), a TV lawyer who runs HDG Projects, a management firm that says it 'is responsible for managing the 4 remaining Pythons' - namely Cleese, Gilliam, Michael Palin and Idle. He appeared to suggest she was to blame for his 'income streams...tail(ing) off so disastrously' - prompting Cleese, 84, to hit back, seemingly with the backing of Gilliam and Palin. Cleese (left) said in a post last night on X, formerly Twitter : 'I have worked with Holly for the last ten years, and I find her very efficient, clear-minded, hard- working, and pleasant to have dealings with.'
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