Cleese in first UK tour to make up 'the alimony'

MONTY Python star John Cleese – now in his 70's is heading out on his first UK tour.

The popular funnyman is making light of his huge divorce settlement – understood to be about 12 million – by calling it the "Alimony Tour".

Cleese will be 71 by the time his live shows hit the UK in May next year, including a date in Edinburgh. He joked: "It is an evening of well-honed anecdotes, psychoanalytical titbits, details of recent surgical procedures, and unprovoked attacks on former colleagues, especially Michael Palin."

Oscar-nominated Cleese split from third wife Alyce Faye Eichelberger, in 2008.

The size of the payout was not made public until last year with Cleese grumbling: "What I find so unfair is that if we both died today, her children would get much more than mine."