‘Monty Python’ star Eric Idle revealed that he’s still working at age 80, noting that “people always assume” that he would be “loaded.”
Eric Idle has recently been quite candid online about his financial status, and contrary to the comedic work he is known for, he is being serious.
The 80-year-old Monty Python actor took to X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) to share what might seem astonishing to the average viewer of his famed franchise, per The Guardian.
“I don’t know why people assume we’re loaded,” he wrote. “Python is a disaster.”
In one of a heated series of tweets fired off over the weekend, he also acknowledged Spamalot, the Broadway show he adapted from Holy Grail in 2004, which he said “made money 20 years ago.”
“I have to work for my living,” he added. “Not easy at this age.”
After being asked about how much “his houses” are worth, he revealed that he “sold [his house] last year.” In response to someone who questioned whether or not he was being “sincere” in the posts, Idle explained that he and his costars “own everything [they] ever made in Python and [he] never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously.
