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John Cleese and Eric Idle's relationship "over" as pair trade barbs on Twitter

John Cleese and Eric Idle are once again trading blows online as they disagree over the management of the Monty Python brand..

Now, Idle has brought the matter up again in response to a fan’s dismay that the members of the comedy troupe no longer appear to be on good terms. “I don’t mind but once they put Gilliams daughter in as Manager and Cleese fires Jim Beach, well it’s over,” he claimed. In response to a fan asking why he was supposedly allowed to fire Beach, Cleese then accused Idle of “invention” and gave a different version of events.

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