ONLY Fools and Horses legend Nicholas Lyndhurst looks completely different in the new Frasier reboot.
Legendary sitcom Frasier is back in the building and will return with a brand new series this October on Paramount+.
Actor Nicholas, 62, is best known as Rodney Trotter – the younger half brother of Del Boy in the iconic BBC comedy.
But he's set to play the mischievous and boozy university professor Alan Cornwall in the sitcom's sequel.
The Emsworth-native looks worlds away from his usual self in images released before the series premiere.
Kelsey Grammer., 68, has raved about Nicholas' acting and comedic abilities after joining the much-loved show, which initially ran from 1993 to 2004.
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"Nicholas Lyndhurst is co-lead in it. Nick and I fell in love when we were doing Man of La Mancha together," he told The Sunday Times.
" I warned them in America. I said: “Wait until this guy gets here. You’ll be doing a scene with him and suddenly you realise he’s just run off with it.
"He’s an extraordinary actor, a dear friend. And I am so pleased."
He added: “I accuse him of being a bit of a sandbagger because you don’t see him coming and all of a sudden he’s getting all the laughs.
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"Nicholas has been hired to play a university professor called Alan in the reboot, who is pals with Frasier."
The Frasier reboot has been long anticipated by fans of the original hit series, itself a spin-off from the original sitcom Cheers!. A hilarious official spoof trailer for the new series shows Frasier as a menacing villain but the show will follow the sitcom format of previous series.
This is Nicholas' first role since son Archie died aged 19 in September 2020 of a brain haemorrhage.
The CBBC actor was discovered at his family home in Fulham, West London.
He had briefly starred alongside his dad in sitcom So Awkward.
Nicholas said of himself and Archie's mum after his death: "Lucy and I are utterly grief stricken."
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