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Her sons, Samuel and Joseph West<\/a>, confirmed her death to news agency Pa Media on Tuesday, saying Scales<\/a> died \u201cpeacefully at home in London yesterday.\u201d She was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough dementia forced her retirement from a remarkable acting career of nearly 70 years, she continued to live at home. She was watching \u2018Fawlty Towers\u2019 the day before she died,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cWe would like to thank…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prunella Scales, the actress best known for playing Sybil Fawlty, the intimidating wife of John Cleese\u2019s Basil on the iconic \u201970s British sitcom \u201cFawlty Towers,\u201d died on Monday. She was 93. Her sons, Samuel and Joseph West, confirmed her death to news agency Pa Media on Tuesday, saying Scales died \u201cpeacefully at home in London […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2120320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2120319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prunella-Scales-\u2018Fawlty-Towers-Star-Dies-at-93.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120321,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120319\/revisions\/2120321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}