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Samuel West heartbreakingly admits he doesn't know 'what it's going to feel like' at first Christmas without his father Timothy


Timothy, who was a theatre legend and also starred in EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys with his Fawlty Towers star wife Prunella Scales, died at Wandsworth Common Care Home in November.

His children Juliet, Samuel and Joseph West announced the tragic news with a shared statement on social media, saying he died peacefully in his sleep 'with his friends and family at the end'. Prunella and Timothy previously starred together in their own Channel 4 TV show, Great Canal Journeys, between 2014 and 2021, but were forced to quit due to her ailing health. In an interview with the BBC last year, West said he recalled every word of that life-changing moment when the doctor finally diagnosed her condition: 'We went to see a specialist who said, 'Sorry this is just something which happens to you when you are older and it's not going to get any easier, but you can cope with it.

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