Andrew Sachs: 'My wife is still very angry with Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross'

Andrew Sachs has said his wife is still angry with Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand for 'Sachsgate'.

The actor, 83, was best known for his Fawlty Towers alter ego Manuel before the 2008 scandal, when Jonathan and Russell left voicemails on the actor's phone, alleging that his granddaughter had been in a sexual relationship with Russell.

At the time of the fallout, Andrew's beloved wife Melody, who he married in 1960, was in hospital.

"My wife was having a hip replacement operation, and so she saw visions of me when she came out of the anaesthetic," he said.

"She looked at [the] television and saw me standing outside our house talking to journalists."

"It was a horrible time, but my interest was in my wife. I couldn't care less about them. I was thinking about my wife and looking after her."

He added: "My wife got very angry about it all... I didn't like it... but she was much more angry about the two boys, Russell Brand and the other one [than me].

"She is still very angry with them, quite understandably, really."

The grandfather-of-four has written his autobiography, I Know Nothing, and said dragging up the whole affair was 'no fun'.

But he added: "I can't ignore the whole subject, sadly it wouldn't go away if I tried."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.