BBC bosses have revealed that Bruce Forsyth will be well enough to return to Strictly Come Dancing tomorrow night.
The elderly TV presenter was struck down with flu last week and asked pal Ronnie Corbett to co-present the show in his place.
But is it a good idea to bring Brucie back after Strictly got its highest ratings of the year last weekend. Surely that wasn’t a coincidence?
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Bruce Forsyth was forced to pull out of Saturday night’s show, after being struck down by a bad case of flu. Former judge of the show Arlene Phillips says he was badly missed.
She told The Sun: “Bizarrely, I thought the show missed him.
“It’s not until you haven’t got Bruce there that you realise how he really is so woven into the programme. I think it proved he’s pivotal to the series.
Bruce Forsyth will not appear on tomorrow night’s episode of Strictly Come Dancing because he has come down with flu.
The BBC reports that fellow host Tess Daly will take over Bruce’s role of presenting the contestant to the judges, but it is not clear if someone else will take on Tess’s backstage duties.
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Bruce Forsyth, has begged viewers to give new judge Alesha Dixon a chance on the show.
At a workshop for BBC staff this week Brucie pleaded:
“The show has been so hyped up this year and the criticism of Alesha has been unnecessarily harsh. She should be given a chance – the girl’s got guts.”
One worker told The Sun: “Brucie obviously feels very passionately about the Alesha situation as he was being quite feisty.
Justin Lee Collins has said that Bruce Forsyth is too old to be fronting Strictly Come Dancing and described him as ‘very rude.’
Justin presented the spinoff show ‘Strictly Come Dancing: On Three’ in 2004, and said Bruce did not act as he expected him to.
Collins told BBC: “I still think Bruce in his day was the best at what he did, but I think he should have given up three or four years ago.
“As legendary as he is – I grew up loving him, as did my parents, as did my grandparents – he wasn’t particularly nice to me on that show.”
Strictly Come Dancing presenter Bruce Forsyth has admitted that he took a pay cut for this years series and revealed that he backs a general cap on talent’s salaries.
In an interview with the BBC’s Newsnight, the star said: “It’s a good thing to cap the salaries and I think it should have probably been done a long time ago.”
TV veteran Terry Wogan has admitted that he is compelled to watch Strictly Come Dancing but only to make sure Bruce Forsyth is still alive.
The former Eurovision presenter calls the BBC reality TV show “must-see” telly – but for the wrong reason.
Wogan told Radio Times: “I have to watch Strictly Come Dancing, of course, because one does worry so for Bruce.”
The Sun newspaper has revealed today that Strictly Come Dancing host, Bruce Forsyth, has agreed to take a 25% cut in his pay for presenting this year’s show, which means in monetary terms that instead of last year’s pay of around £600,000, he’ll receive around £500,000.
The cut is in line with many cost cutting measures that have been introduced by BBC director-general Mark Thompson, who is cutting the salaries of some BBC stars by as much as 40%.
A representative of Forsyth’s told the paper, “Bruce loves Strictly. We haven’t signed a contract yet, but we hope to have things sorted within the next two weeks.
“In times like these people are taking cuts. Gone are the days when you’d get a Brucie bonus for being loyal… Read more & comment »
Poor old Brucie! Grandad Forsyth has revealed that he was very hurt by all the criticism of his performance on this years Strictly Come Dancing series, and its almost like hearing someone giving your favourite grandpa a hard time.
“When you’re 80 you don’t have many plans for the future. So we’ll have to see what happens,” he told the Daily Star Sunday.
Bruce Forsyth has revealed that he has no intention of leaving Strictly Come Dancing, and says that he has ways and means of dealing with the tough filming schedule.
“On a Saturday I’m in the studio for 12 hours. From a TV point of view, that’s a week’s work in one day. So I pace myself the rest of the week,” he told The Mirror.
“I spend all day Sunday in bed. I have a long lie-in, get up for lunch, go back to bed and watch a bit of football, then I get up for a bit of supper. It’s all I can do. I rest a lot, I stay in bed a long time because if I do that I know I can get through it.”
Strictly Come Dancing presenter, Bruce Forsyth has revealed that he is shocked by John Sergeant’s decision to quit the show.
Forsyth told the BBC: “I feel sorry for John because he was put in the most awkward position. He looked at all the other dancers and knew they were better than him. Over the last few weeks he must have felt guilty in a way.”
Forsyth also has sympathy for the other dancers and judges who were put in a slightly awkward postition.
Strictly Come Dancing host, Tess Daly, has defended her co-presenter Bruce Forsyth against people who have been calling him doddery and trying to get him off the show.
“I actually think it’s very disrespectful to talk a man out of a job that he is good at, that he loves,” Daly told the Daily Mail. “Let’s not forget that Bruce has been in the entertainment business for more than six decades. He is a legend in his own right, and there should be respect for that.
“These people who say otherwise, well, let’s look at their CVs compared to his and see who comes out on top.”
Strictly Come Dancing host, Bruce Forsyth is considering taking legal action against newspapers that reported he was leaving the show due to his advanced age.
Forsyth’s manager, Ian Wilson, insisted: “This story is not true and the matter is being put in the hands of our solicitors.”
Do you think Bruce is too old and doddery to present this primetime Saturday night show? Leave your comments below.
Strictly Come Dancing presenter, Bruce Forsyth is said to furious that many people are claiming that he is too old to front the BBC One TV Show.
Bruce hit back at critics on Saturday night’s show saying: “Am I doddery? Doddery I am not!”
Now Forsyth is said to be demanding “edgier, sharper and harder” jokes in a bid to prove his critics wrong.
TV veteran, Bruce Forsyth has remarked that he thinks there are far too many reality TV shows, and that soon people will tire of the format.
MSN quotes the soon to be Knighted Brucie as saying: “For me, there’s too much. X Factor is a great show and I’m not saying there’s not room for that as a show, but too many reality shows have happened.
“The public are starting to think, ‘Is there anything else but reality? What did we do before reality? Were we entertained? And if we were did we enjoy it?’ Personally, I’ve had enough of reality. I want to see performers performing. Read more & comment »
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