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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Bruce Forysth has at last been knighted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13728375

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

A well deserved honour for a great versatile entertainer

Whilst I'm not very keen on his current TV role over the last 50 years he has done just about everything ranging from appearing in films in the 1950's through the London Palladium era and on to The Generation Game and many other quiz shows

If anyone deserves this honour there can be no doubt that Brucie does Very Happy

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19335 Location: Cheshire

I'm glad he has at last been honoured.

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Blondehedgehog · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 286 Location: UK

Sorry I have to disagree with everyone.

I have never liked him, perhaps I do not like catch phrases. He has had other gongs that should have been enough.

Ken Dodd is another that makes me cringe.............. Shocked

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

I wouldn't call myself Sir Bruce's greatest fan but this honour seems long overdue.

Ian.

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5769 Location: Hampshire

Very pleased for Sir Brucie. Long overdue.

Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

I also will not admit to not being Brucie's biggest fan but he has been in the business 50+ years so I think he deserves it.

FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5769 Location: Hampshire

Last year at Wimbledon:
Interviewer: "Come on Bruce, give us a few steps."
Bruce goes into a mini tap routine, stops, looks down and says:
"Oh, we're on grass! I thought I'd gone deaf!"

I remember Brucie from Sunday Night at the London Palladium and the early series of The Generation Game. Such a great ad-libber and a good way with contestants. I loved his wallpaper act with Norman Wisdom. He did an excellent radio programme about Sammy Davis Jnr. I enjoyed his Who Do You Think You Are? and he seems to be a nice family man with his wife keeping children from former wives all together and on friendly terms.

Etc etc.

I don't much like the dancing competition programmes though.

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7202 Location: North Yorkshire

I am not a Brucie fan, but I think he was more deserving than the man who with his sister has wrecked the lives of many, destroyed lots of people's careers and ruined companies who he just took, asset stripped and killed off.

I speak from experience......I will leave you to know who I mean. Evil or Very Mad

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FleetingEileenM · Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 5769 Location: Hampshire

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Is it a certain person who runs a chain of Department stores - or am I being a bit Green?
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Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7202 Location: North Yorkshire

No not department stores, not Green at all! Laughing

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Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Sadly not a fan of BF one bit.

Still he has been "at it" for 50 years-guess he deserves some kind of recognition.