The soap had almost 9,000 complaints from viewers, leading to the plot being wrapped up early, while Womack left EastEnders because of feeling exhausted - even chopping off and recolouring her familiar blonde hair on leaving.
They are palpably interesting, remarkably even-tempered people; even having their heads chopped off doesn't rattle them much.
In the movie, Cleese, at 6ft 5in, played the Black Knight, who refuses to grant King Arthur the victory in a sword fight, even after Arthur has chopped off all four of his limbs.
Beyonce has a bob, which would be big hair news even if she hadn't chopped off her long locks last week and gone for a petite blond pixie 'do.
In outrage, the now ageing Belgian officials who worked in the Congo in later years have taken to the internet with a 10-page message claiming that maybe only half a dozen people had their hands chopped off, and that even that was done by native troops.
Even in her late thirties, Earhart looked like an adolescent boy who had chopped off his own hair.
Sierra Leone's war, which ended last year, eclipsed even Africa's usual standards of horror, as tens of thousands of civilians had hands, noses or ears chopped off.
Even if the production had its problems, whoever shouted "Rubbish!" as the curtain came down should have had his head chopped off.
"I flew between the poplars, which chopped off one wing.
