Makes No Cents

Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese is not exactly raking in the big bucks.

John, who rose to fame as a cast member with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, has revealed a paltry royalty payment he received for narrating the film Winnie the Pooh, stating that one check totaled all of 20 cents.

John, 80, has taken to Twitter to blast the low payments he banked for his voice work on the 2011 Disney movie, which had a budget of $29 million and made just $49 million worldwide at the box office.

“In the difficult times the arrival of residuals boosts my morale. Today I received royalties from The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. $0.20.”

John also blasted the 2003 comedy series Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, writing: “Even better, I received $3.81.”

It reminds me of a check I received when I was a regular on ABC’s The View with Barbara Walters talking about the Royal Family. A longtime member of SAG-AFTRA, I received a royalty check of 27 cents from Disney, which I had framed with TV’s Big Bucks! underneath.

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F) Richard Mineards displays meager check

Nuptials Postponed

Queen Elizabeth‘s granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, 31, is reportedly planning to postpone her May 29 wedding to real estate developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 36, stepson of an old prep school classmate, the late Christopher Shale.

The ceremony in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace, where Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, will have an extremely limited guest list, given the new coronavirus rules introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Church of England.

Beatrice, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is now going to have the nuptials in 2021 after a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the Queen was also cancelled.

Stay tuned…