# @bbcnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQWfhspkzhS
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-28T11:35:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC News (@bbcnews) — https://gondola.cc/bbcnews

## Caption

Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has died aged 93, her family have confirmed.
 
Scales was best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the British sitcom.
 
The actress died "peacefully at home in London yesterday", her sons Samuel and Joseph said.
 
They added that she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.
 
She had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013.
 
"Although dementia forced her retirement from a remarkable acting career of nearly 70 years, she continued to live at home."
 
Her husband, actor Timothy West, died in November last year.
 
Tap the link in BBCNews’s bio to read more about her life and career.
 
(📷 BBC/Joel Ryan/Martin Hayhow/PA)
 
#PrunellaScales #FawltyTowers #BBCNews

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