Beard Liberation Front
8th February
Still Fawlty: Cleese remains suspended from the Beard Liberation Front
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that veteran comedian John Cleese remains suspended as a supporter, after he announced a new series of the classic TV comedy Fawlty Towers.
Cleese who was known for frequently sporting a moustache in his earlier years is now more often to be seen with a full beard.
However after he announced he would be presenting a programme on the hard-right GB News TV station, he was suspended by the BLF
The BLF does not formally engage with GB News although it has not officially listed it as pogonophobic.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, John Cleese could be a great positive ambassador for the hirsute but in taking a GB News role we remain concerned that he will end up bringing the hirsute into disrepute. It’s unfortunately all rather fawlty
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