Monty Python’s Terry Jones Has Dementia
Posted: September 25, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Health and Social Issues | Tags: BBC, Eric Idle, Fawlty Towers, John Cleese, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Terry Gilliam 1 Comment
Jones has primary progressive aphasia, his spokesman said.
Monty Python member Terry Jones has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impedes his ability to understand language, his spokesman told the BBC.
Jones’s diagnosis was made public after Bafta Cymru announced it would honor the Welsh comedian with a lifetime achievement award for his work with Monty Python, as well as his subsequent career as a popular TV historian. Read the rest of this entry »
