Bruce Forsyth has died

SPDUB

Just announced on BBC News Bruce Forsyth has died

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40978576

Link:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40978576

"Nice to see you, to see you... nice".

Sir Bruce Forsyth, the veteran entertainer and presenter of many successful TV shows, has died aged 89.
The former Strictly Come Dancing presenter had been unwell for some time and was in hospital earlier this year after a severe chest infection.
His long career in showbusiness began when he was aged just 14.
He became Britain's best-paid TV star, famous for hosting game shows like The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price is Right.
He also presented BBC One's Strictly with Tess Daly from 2004 to 2014.
Sir Bruce had not been seen in public recently, due to ill health. He was too frail to attend the funerals of close friends Ronnie Corbett and Sir Terry Wogan last year.

Stigura

My old dear saw him, one time. Said he was loathesome, because he rushed away after the show, disregarding the baying fans and autograph hunters. Maybe his Dog was taken sick?

Later, of course, he won her, like everyone else, over. " Here Kitttayyyyyeee!!! " Madman!

RIP, Brucie.

Harry Palmr

My whole life he's been there in the corner of the front room and now he's gone.

The_Valeyard

'The Price Was Right' was brilliant.

Revived his career with Strictly Come Dancing.

Interesting family background!

89 is a good age, but ask someone who is 88 and they will say its still young.


RIP




"The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about."

vicwatson

Are Am Eye

He had a good innings.

valoren

Didn't he do well.

RIP Brucie.

WoollyRedHat

What a lovely man he was, a true entertainer. You don't get them like that anymore.

RIP Bruce.

Noveight

His cracking mustache was the least of his achievements. Rip indeed.

Tom Mann Centuria

Good game, good game.


RIP.

Tauriel

I grew up watching the game shows he presented in the nineties.

RIP

vicwatson

My Favourite was "ok Dollies, do your dealing" !!!

• Nice to see you, to see you ... nice - The Generation Game 1971
• Didn't he/she/they do well? - The Generation Game 1971
• Good game, good game! - The Generation Game 1980s
• I'm in charge! - The Generation Game 1980s
• You're such a lovely audience, so much better than last week's - The Generation Game 1980s
• What do points make? - Various TV 1980s
• It's a bit Mother Goose, isn't it? - The Generation Game 1980s
• Oh, wasn't that a shame! - The Price is Right 1980s
• Print it, print it - The Generation Game 1980s
• Cuddly toy, cuddly toy! - The Generation Game 1980s
• You get nothing for a pair! (not in this game) - The Generation Game 1980s
• Didn't he do well? - The Generation Game 1980s
• Nice to see you, to see you - The Generation Game 1980s
• All right, my loves? - The Generation Game 1980s
• Give us a twirl! - The Generation Game 1980s
• A chance to go for the car - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• OK dollies do your dealing - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• Do you wanna bet on it? - You Bet 1990s
• We asked a hundred people - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• Higher! Lower! Bruce Forsyth - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• I'm the leader of the pack which makes me such a lucky jack - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• And here they are, they're so appealing - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• Nice to twirl you... Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• I've made up my mind - you're the best - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• And from everyone here - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• And from everyone here – and I do mean everyone - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• You're my favourites - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• Keeeeeep dancin'! - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• Not like that! - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• Let's meet the stars of our show - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• It's the moment of truth - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s

jamesbere

He had a great presence in front of the camera, never got flustered. A true professional.

RIP

Poorside

will he go higher or lower?

RIP Brucey

Jayesdiem

Nice to know you, to know you nice.

_Kaiser_

Grew up watching him in the 80s and one of my favourite presenters.

RIP Brucie

seamus

Aw, RIP Brucey. To be fair though, any time I saw him on TV in the last decade I did say, "Jaysus, is he still alive?". He had good innings and was still energetic into the last years of his career.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Made his TV debut as a child in 1939.

Astonishing.

Fred Swanson

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dublinman1990

A wonderful gentleman on screen and off.

His presenting roles in The Price is Right & Play your Cards Right, IMO, made him a legend.

RIP Brucie.

fxotoole

RIP Bruce, nice to see you, to see you nice

LordSutch

Arguably the last of the Great entertainers.

RIP Sir Bruce, you were truly great ....

Departing at 89, a good innings indeed.

dd972

A good laugh, RIP.

A Little Pony

Maybe keep the praise back just in case as you never know.. but RIP anyway.

keano_afc

Very sad, he was a cracking entertainer. Wont see his like again.

RIP Brucie, thanks for the Saturday night memories in front of the TV.

dublinman1990

BBC News at 5 on it's news channel has said he died of bronchial pneumonia.

callaway92

A Little Pony wrote: »

Maybe keep the praise back just in case as you never know.. but RIP anyway.

Something you know that we don't?

A Little Pony

A Little Pony wrote: »

Maybe keep the praise back just in case as you never know.. but RIP anyway.

He loved his dolly birds.

RIP Brucie, thanks for the entertainment.

Greybottle

He was married or in relationships with two Miss World's.

The only other person known to have slept with two Miss World's is the legendary George Best.

That's my Brucie Bonus fact for today. RIP

PucaMama

A Little Pony wrote: »

Maybe keep the praise back just in case as you never know.. but RIP anyway.

Disgusting to imply anything other than he was a gentleman.

RIP.

A Little Pony

callaway92 wrote: »

A Little Pony wrote: »

Maybe keep the praise back just in case as you never know.. but RIP anyway.

Something you know that we don't?

Nope. But just remember when everyone praised that other guy. But Bruce sounds like a lovely guy.

Sparks43

Every time a celebrity dies Bruce Forsyth takes a Viagra and has a wa............


Oh wait......

RIP Bruce. Good game good game

Venom

One of the all time greats.

Yamanoto

A giant of variety entertainment TV & an almost Vaudevillian type of old-school song and dance man. He had a reputation for being a spiky enough character though & wasn't universally loved within the industry.

RIP

Hermy

Another champion of mediocrity shuffles off this mortal coil.

TallGlass

One of the quickest people I have ever seen on a TV. He moved so slick, stylish and quick. Crack jokes as he moved.

RIP.

Your Face

Hermy wrote: »

Another champion of mediocrity shuffles off this mortal coil.

Edgy

Winterlong

Someone asked him recently what he had been up to this last while.
"I've been very, very busy... being ill" he replied

Sad to see him go, he was born for TV.

DellyBelly

I am genuinely shocked with this news. I was a great fan. What's a hotspot not

Pang

Very sad. Enjoyed Bruce on Strictly.

Hermy

Hermy wrote: »

Another champion of mediocrity shuffles off this mortal coil.

You're so cool, Edgelord.


My gran loved him, he was the last great 'Mr Saturday Night'.

vicwatson

vicwatson wrote: »

My Favourite was "ok Dollies, do your dealing" !!!

• Nice to see you, to see you ... nice - The Generation Game 1971
• Didn't he/she/they do well? - The Generation Game 1971
• Good game, good game! - The Generation Game 1980s
• I'm in charge! - The Generation Game 1980s
• You're such a lovely audience, so much better than last week's - The Generation Game 1980s
• What do points make? - Various TV 1980s
• It's a bit Mother Goose, isn't it? - The Generation Game 1980s
• Oh, wasn't that a shame! - The Price is Right 1980s
• Print it, print it - The Generation Game 1980s
• Cuddly toy, cuddly toy! - The Generation Game 1980s
• You get nothing for a pair! (not in this game) - The Generation Game 1980s
• Didn't he do well? - The Generation Game 1980s
• Nice to see you, to see you - The Generation Game 1980s
• All right, my loves? - The Generation Game 1980s
• Give us a twirl! - The Generation Game 1980s
• A chance to go for the car - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• OK dollies do your dealing - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• Do you wanna bet on it? - You Bet 1990s
• We asked a hundred people - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• Higher! Lower! Bruce Forsyth - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• I'm the leader of the pack which makes me such a lucky jack - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• And here they are, they're so appealing - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
• Nice to twirl you... Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• I've made up my mind - you're the best - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• And from everyone here - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• And from everyone here – and I do mean everyone - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• You're my favourites - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• Keeeeeep dancin'! - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• Not like that! - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• Let's meet the stars of our show - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
• It's the moment of truth - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s

You missed one, so no Brucie Bonus for you then

Stonedpilot

Hardly a surprise, he's been going since God was a child.

cml387

TallGlass wrote: »

One of the quickest people I have ever seen on a TV. He moved so slick, stylish and quick. Crack jokes as he moved.

RIP.

A television natural, but he had the best team working with him.

The BBC crew who worked in light entertainment were the best in the business, and Bruce worked them hard.

There was a thing he used to do, when talking to the contestants on The Generation Game, where he'd make a sidelong glance at a point where he knew the camera was waiting for that exact shot.

Truly a legend.

And I'm old enough to remember him presenting Sunday Night At The London Palladium.

RIP Brucie.

Tzardine

DellyBelly wrote: »

I am genuinely shocked with this news. I was a great fan. What's a hotspot not

Was that not Michael Barrymore ?

King of Kings

back in the 1980s shell petrol had a promotion called "Bruces Lucky Deal"
which was a scratch card - you scratched 3 or 4 panels and if they matched you won something.

I was about 8 and my granny let me scratch one.
we won a tenner , which she took...

but i've loved gambling since that day

...And Justice

He must have had a serious hefty langer on him. The women he pulled were absolute crackers.

mikeybrennan

Supposedly a horrible man

Rip Anyway

Erik Shin

Probably the greatest entertainer of our generation....he will be missed

cml387

mikeybrennan wrote: »

Supposedly a horrible man

Rip Anyway

After he left the Generation Game Larry Grayson took over.

It was widely known the contestants were well treated with Larry and he liked to talk to them before and after the show whereas Brucie tended to ignore them at best.

But the programme never had the edge that Bruce brought to it and it did not long survive his departure.