Alison Telfer Wiki

Alison Telfer is the Ex-Wife of Terry Jones who is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director, and historian and he was a member of the Monty Python comedy team.

Jones died Tuesday, his agent said in an interview he had been suffering from dementia, which was revealed to the public by his son Bill in September 2016. The condition left him unable to speak.

“We are deeply saddened to have to announce the passing of beloved husband and father, Terry Jones,” his family said in a statement. He died at his home in north London. His wife, Anna Soderstrom, was “by his side after a long, extremely brave but always good-humored battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD,” the statement said.

In April 2017, he first noticed the signs of dementia during a live performance of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in July 2014. Jones was eventually diagnosed with the condition in September 2015 after it was found that his frontal lobe had absconded.

Jones died on 21 January 2020 from complications of a rare form of dementia at his home in North London.

Alison Telfer Career

Terry Jones studied at St. Edmund Hall College, Oxford University. In 1965, with his friend Michael Palin, he made The Late Show (1966) for television, which was his first success. Also, he wrote for many other TV shows, such as The Kathy Kirby Show (1964), Late Night Line-Up (1964) (with Palin), Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) (with Palin).

But Jones’ greatest success was the zany Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969) (1969-74) (with Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Eric Idle).

In 2015, Jones was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of frontotemporal dementia that impairs the ability to speak and communicate. e had first given cause for concern during the Monty Python reunion show Monty Python Live (Mostly) in July 2014 because of difficulties learning his lines.

By September 2016, he was no longer able to give interviews. By April 2017, Jones had lost the ability to say more than a few words of agreement and he died on 21 January 2020 from complications of dementia, at his home in North London.

Alison Telfer Husband

She was married to Alison Telfer and they were married together from 1970 to 2012. Furthermore, they had two children together, Sally (born 1974), and Bill (born 1976).

In 2009, Jones left her for Anna Söderström, who was 41 years his junior and with whom he had been in a relationship for five years.[45] In September 2009, a daughter, Siri, was born to Söderström and Jones.