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# Seems as though I will never be blue.

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# Sometimes I'm happy... APPLAUSE Hello and welcome to

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the One Show with Alex Jones. Now it may be Monday night,

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but tonight we're going to spend an hour celebrating the king

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of Saturday night - Sir Bruce Forsyth,

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who died last week. I've never known a man more in love

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with the concept of show business. Tonight we're celebrating

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his life and career We will cover all aspects of Bruce's

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career and we will reveal the final three contestants of this year's

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Strictly. I'm sure they would have been Bruce's favourites, of course.

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Let's welcome guests who have played a significant chapter in his story.

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And we have somebody who shared the Strictly dance floor. Let's welcome

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Kenny Lynch, Rosemarie Ford and Anton du Beke. And later we have

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Strictly's Dave Arch and his wonderful orchestra and they will be

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here for a special musical tribute at the end of the show. Where do we

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start? At the beginning. The first time you met. The first time I met

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him was in a barbershop. I had gone to the barber two hours before and I

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saw a picture of Bruce on the wall, by the mirror. I said to the Barber,

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I know him, what is his name? He said, Bruce Forsyth. I thought, why

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do I know him? In those days, it was variety bills and I had seen him.

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When? I would not like to mention! 70 something. We were pals 55 years.

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He said he is coming in later, he is a regular like you. He said come

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over in an hour. I said I have not got time for that rubbish. It was in

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Gerard Street in the West End and I was probably shopping. I did go past

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an hour later and I saw him and he called me in, the Barber, and he

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introduced us. It was about four, five weeks from taking over The

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Generation Game. I met him in the BBC Roundhouse, in the bar, and we

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started talking and discovered we had a love of jazz. The same as me,

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he loved pianists and singers. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan. Oscar

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Peterson. After that day we were inseparable. Rosemarie, how about

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you? This was probably 1985, 86, and I was working for a choreographer

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called Nigel Lythgoe and I was a dancer on his shows. He had

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different specials. We did a comedy routine which was great fun and a

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while after that, before The Generation Game, I was on a Royal

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variety singing for Andrew Lloyd Webber. Rather fortunate. Bruce

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said, who is that girl? You know, she did the comedy ballet routine.

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He said let's get her in, I want somebody for The Generation Game.

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And I got to know him better from that point but I was just a dancer

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on his show. I was starstruck because I wanted to be you,

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Rosemarie, back in the day. And Anton, I imagine it was Strictly. I

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met him once before that. We were just talking about this. I did one

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of the old Come Dancings. Rosemarie used to host them and Bruce did one

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show as a guest and it was one I was doing and he has been my hero, I

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have always loved him. I asked his manager, whoever at the time, saying

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can I meet him, please? He said, of course. I went to his dressing room

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and said it is a pleasure, an honour to meet you, thank you very much.

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What do you say to your hero? He said yes, lovely. And walked out. Is

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that it? Is that all you could say, hello? And Strictly Come Dancing

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came around and Brucie was going to be the host. Although we did not

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know what Strictly Come Dancing would be like. We knew as dancers it

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is wonderful, but Brucie, being the host and being able to work with

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Brucie on a show was sort of, you know, I had been sent to heaven. We

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did the launch show, press day, I think at Claridges and all the

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professionals and celebrities were fair and the press and Bruce and

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Tess Daly came out. We were putting our frocks on and stuff. Brucie was

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saying hello and I remember looking and going hello, again! Hello,

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lovely. We got chatting. After the show we spoke about golf. We are

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both keen golfers. And after the first series of Strictly Come

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Dancing, he invited me to his place and we played golf and I met him at

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the house and we went off and played golf. It was incredible. I could not

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believe it. I could not believe... To be in a show with Brucie is one

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thing. We all work together. To be in the buggy with Brucie. He was a

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terrible driver of a golf buggy. Kenny would know about that. He does

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not too good in the car, either. Both Alex and I, our experiences

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with Strictly, but from my perspective I remember when I was

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stood so close to him at the first time, at the judges' moment when you

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are waiting and he is mesmerising, to think I am in his company. He was

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always moving. When he met Anton, because I studied The Generation

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Game and I was asked to present Come Dancing and Bruce said, I always

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wanted to be on Come Dancing. , She said, can you ask if they will let

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me on. They were like yes, but, this is Bruce. I said he does not want

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anything, just a bit of lunch and a cup of tea. He does not want any

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thing, he just wants to be on the programme. He has a wonderful way

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and you will know this. You are in the studio rehearsing. You are doing

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a run through, the day before, you will be doing something and suddenly

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there will be a frisson in the background and you think, what is

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that? And Bruce has arrived. You did not have to turn around, you knew he

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was there. This charisma. I remember walking into the rehearsal room and

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he had this way, charisma. I was sitting at home and people from my

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village were coming and knocking on the door and saying they were sorry

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and I had never spoken to them in my life, just people knocking on the

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door to say they knew how close I was with him. We have an hour to

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talk about him. Let's relax and enjoy it and celebrate his life.

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He appealed to people of all ages from different backgrounds. We have

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favourite memories, but what did he mean to you? We went to the home of

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ballroom, Blackpool,. And his spiritual home, the London

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Palladium. From the moment he stepped in he would say hello, make

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you feel like you could have a conversation with him. He would

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store his sandwiches in the fridge and it was nice when he popped into

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the office to make sure nobody had eaten them.

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Didn't he do well? You are my favourite. Bruce Forsyth, childhood

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memories of family entertainment, traditional, family values and a

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good entertainer. When you watched him, you felt you knew him well. I

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like to see him dance. To do his shovels. Brucie was Brucie, he was

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telling. We will miss him madly. All about Strictly Come Dancing and the

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famous bit where Mark and Karen did their dance and it went wrong and

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Bruce steps in like a pro. I love it, live television! He let them do

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it again and we enjoyed the dance. Nice to see you, to see you, nice.

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Didn't he do well? Give us a twirl. As a child I saw him on the telly

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and more recently on Strictly, and we are avid watchers every year. He

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made my weekend. Ready, steady, go. Bruce was more talented than just

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his game shows. He was a great pianist, tap dancer, all those

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things. He will be missed by loads of people. I'm in charge! He brought

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in new phrases and ideas. Bruce was original. I loved it when he said

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that. It was really funny. Keep dancing! I knew Brucie when I was

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little, as a student, and up to the last years, I still liked him on

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Strictly Come Dancing. He was a star.

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I think there are some of your neighbours, Kenny. Thank you for

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taking part in the film and we would love to hear from you at home. If

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you met Bruce, perhaps you were a contestant on his game shows, or in

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the audience on Strictly. Send them to the address with your name and

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details and we will show as many as we can but important, please put the

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year. We have lovely photos of the three of you and lovely moments from

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your career. Kenny, it might be from 1978. Are these the three Fivers? Me

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and friends talking about the three Tenors. He had an idea that will we

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should do it. We said we could be the Three Fivers. The record company

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guy thought it was a good idea. We did it. What the boys did not

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realise, not being pop stars like myself, what they did not realise,

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when you bring out a record, you have to go up and down the country

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to different radio shows. Mersey radio, all over. I gave them a

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schedule of what we should do and they can tap me as if I was potty.

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They were going, we ain't going up there. I did some on my own. Good on

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you. I was driving home from a gig one night. It came on the news,

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which was great, and it said me and Jimmy and Bruce, they were going to

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take away our record, because they did not like the idea of the Three

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Fivers. The Bruce used to go to football. We supported Malaga

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because we had flats there. And we would sit near placid au Domingo.

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And he asked about taking the record out. He said what record? I said I

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called us the Three Fivers. He could not stop laughing. They find us

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10,000, as well. I think Jimmy must have paid it because me and Bruce

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definitely didn't! We move onto a picture of yourself, Rosemarie. Look

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at that. That is the classic I want to be you from Alex Jones. That

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dress. I loved wearing the dresses, every week choosing something

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different and having it made and going to designers. It was special.

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On the day of filming, what would be your routine before you got to the

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studio floor? When we first started rehearsals, because it was a big

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step and quite scary because you know once the first programme goes

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out, your life is going to change. Because you are the new girl on the

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Generation Game. I thought years before watching with my parents,

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little did I know I would be the next girl on the Generation Game and

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so it was a huge step. It started usually having a cup of tea and a

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digestive biscuit because he liked to put me at my ease, because I was

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nervous. We realised we needed to build up a nice rapport for it to

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work anyway. He would spend time every rehearsal day and he would say

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come and sit down. We would chat about his daughters and about

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everything. And the shows I had done and the choreographers. It was a

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special way of building up the relationship and I feel very

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fortunate I had the time to build up that relationship and work with him

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in that way, which was just doing everything, all the dance routines

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and comedy plays. Everything. I even sat with Cleo Laine. We will talk

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about the Generation Game tonight because we have the producer Jim

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Moir coming on. And we have a photo of you Anton, you singing and

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dancing with Sir Bruce. Bruce was an old-school entertainer

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with timeless appeal. He was a variety performer

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in the truest sense of the word. Here's a look at his early years

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to see where and how Bruce joseph Forsyth Johnson was

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born in 1928 in Edmonton, North London, where his father owned a

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garage business. It was not long before Bruce's Spock was kindled.

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From the age of nine when I first saw if Fred Astaire film and he

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danced, it just did something to my brain, my body, and all I wanted to

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do was dance. I used to dance my dad's garage roof. We had 32 lock-up

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garages and they really did not make a noise so I would see Fred Astaire

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doing this model is routine dancing on the roof and I would get up and I

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would dance on the roof and the rain would come and the garages would

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leak! Bruce's first TV appearance was in

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1939, and a talent show. I went on and she did the little interview

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with me and she said, OK, you will get up and sing and dance, I

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believe? I said, yes, I had been dancing for about a year now, tap

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dancing. That would be lovely. What is your ambition? I said, I want to

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become a star and to buy my mum a fur coat!

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She used to make the little satin suits that I would wear and she

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would stay up till 2am making these little dancing suits.

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By the age of 14, younger Bruce had honed his song and dance routine for

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the stage. I used to call myself Boy Bruce, the mighty atom. And I got a

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job for five quid and I worked the theatre in Bilston. It was the most

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awful place to work. And at the end of the week, the takings were so

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bad, I got 13 and 4p in old money. Things looked up when Bruce got a

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chance to join the line-up at London's Windmill Theatre. Famous

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for the review which featured scantily clad showgirls and

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comedians like Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers. It was the most

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wonderful place and so many of our great comics started at the Windmill

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to find out if they had value regarding being an entertainer. I

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think the worst moment was when I was at the Empress, Brixton.

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Remember going there and dying as a whole week. Absolutely dying. And it

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was the most horrible week of my life. I did myself five years and if

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I did not make it, get out. I did not want to be a frustrated pro, it

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would hate to be that. Bruce's big break came in 1958 when he was 30.

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This theatre changed my life completely. I went from a summer

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season in Eastbourne with just 200 people may be on a Saturday night

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and then travelling up to London to the Palladium with 2,500 people.

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This was a mecca. Good evening!

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# Ladies and gents are, welcome to Sunday night at the London

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Palladium! They used to get a Church service

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over early and the pubs shut early because Sunday night at the

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Palladium was on it was a gnome is. Sunday night at the Palladium was a

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wonderful life lunatic event. Made more lunatic by the presence of this

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stick then insect. It was a big family occasion and largely because

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of him. The whole family loved Brucie. The cool thing about Bruce

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was that when people like Sammy was coming and he would stands with him,

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he kept up with him and that was like, this is cool!

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With me making such a hit on those first few weeks, I finished up with

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Sunday night at the Palladium every Sunday.

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Thank you very much! My mother never even saw me hit it

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big. I always felt very sad that after all the years of some of those

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sequins on the things she never saw me be a big name of the business.

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But I always say she was up there and I am sure she met a couple of

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agents up there. And she got me the job. I still believe that to this

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day. Charity macro.

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That was lovely to watch. It was lovely. We have also been joined by

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former writer and friend Barry Cryer. Thank you so at you and Bruce

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had been friends 60 years. Yes, it was the Windmill and we did six

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shows a day, six days a week and this man was brilliant six times a

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day. The rest of us were sweating because they have not come in to see

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you telling jokes, it was to see our friend posing and dancing. I got the

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impression Bruce, the energy of that man was just amazing. We sat in the

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canteen one day and he said, I am thinking of packing it in. I said,

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what are you talking about? So that was back in the Windmill? 1957. So

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he was in his 20s? Yes, pushing 30 by then. I said, what are you going

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to do and as a joke, he said, I'm going to have a little tobacconist.

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The following year, 1958, I hear my friend is now the new Compere of

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Sunday night at the Palladium and walking down Kingsway in London and

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there he is. He had been to a press conference, his first was coming up

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that Sunday live, in those days, millions of viewers. I said, what

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happens to the tobacconist? Postponed! A very long time after

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that, the years go on and I work with him on The Generation Game and

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TV specials. When you say work, how did you work with him, what was your

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relationship like? You gave Bruce ideas rather than tight script. You

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knew whatever tight script she gave him, he would be running off it

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brilliantly with whatever was happening. He loved people. He loved

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something going wrong, that is what he almost wanted to happen. I will

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tell you a story about a woman in The Generation Game. Bruce could be

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rude to somebody but everybody would laugh because they knew it was not

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real, it was affectionate. A small woman was being very verbose and The

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Generation Game, going on and on, and Bruce embraced her and he looked

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at the audience over her head. And she went in a long story about being

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in Bellevue zoo in Manchester. She said at one point, Bruce, I thought

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the Lion was going to drag me into his cage. He looked over head of the

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camera and he said, I wish he had! Anybody else saying that, but

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everybody laughed including her and that was the great gift the man had,

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sending them up and making fun of them, but in a warm way and

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involving them. He loved them getting a laugh. The bigger shame,

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something many people have said, actually, there was only one Bruce

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and there is nobody else we can think of that is following in his

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footsteps, nobody... Merely, Anton! Nobody has quite got the full

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package! Anti-very much! He could do the lot. He could sing and dance and

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play the piano and everything. And where he was very shrewd when he

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took over the Palladium, he did not throw it all at the audience

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immediately. He let it creep in and week by week. He is playing the

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piano, he is singing with that star, he has just done an impression of

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Sammy Davis Jr. The man could do the lot! When you start thinking about

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that transition from the stage, on the television, and using the camera

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as an extra member of the audience. How he managed to do that. He had an

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instinct, Bruce, with the camera in front of him. He had been schooled

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in the live audience, but it was still a live audience and boy, he

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knew where the camera was. That looks suddenly over to the camera

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and he could work the camera. But his obsession was people. He was

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wonderful with people. Whoever you met, walking down the street or a

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waitress or anybody, hello! He was the same. There was no sort of

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celebrity thing, leave me alone, I'm walking down the street. And people

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would sense that, I think. You are going to stay with us a bit longer.

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Thank you. Bruce was married to

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former Miss World winner But it was his love affair

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with the audience that made him the undisputed king

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of light entertainment. Here's a look back at that

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special relationship. Good evening! Fancy sitting there in

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a sport shirt! The first thing about audience

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participation, you have got to enjoy it.

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Is this a husband? Well, you can't have everything! I

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have always loved it, because you never know what is going to happen.

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Stand up, let's have a look at you! Blimey! I love getting out of a

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situation. If somebody says something, I like to go back at them

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and if they do something, I love to pounce on it.

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I love the hat, dear! Yes, like a blancmange gone wrong!

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He never alienates anybody, he brings people with him, includes

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them in his joke. If he ends up being the but of the joke, that is

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fine by him, he loves that. The lines are on the back of your

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fan! The thing I love about Bruce, he he has a complete ability to

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react to any strange member of the public. Argh! Anybody who has

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switched off -- switch on, they will think we have gone mad! He turns it

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into comedy gold. I cannot see anything if I put them on now!, I

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see. Have we really got research people the show?! A French maid

:26:40.:26:45.

called Daphne who is blind as a bat! He is believed with people on stage,

:26:46.:26:50.

what they say is funny but they are being funny because they are stored

:26:51.:26:54.

next to Bruce Forsyth. What do you do, Agnes? I am a casual farm

:26:55.:27:00.

worker... Could you play that back for me?

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I try to make the camera a person that I am always laying off on. The

:27:11.:27:17.

camera will always understand my feelings. If somebody is giving me

:27:18.:27:24.

trouble, I looked at the camera, you stupid full!

:27:25.:27:33.

What did they do to you, dear? They wanted to do my hair! There is

:27:34.:27:37.

nothing new about that, Oliver Hardy was doing that years ago. He would

:27:38.:27:43.

always look at Stanley and he would go,...

:27:44.:27:47.

I love going on safari, I always send my luggage on ahead. Do not

:27:48.:27:51.

talk to a laugh, dear, never with me! With Bruce Forsyth, whatever you

:27:52.:27:57.

do with him, if you are dancing or interviewing with him of being on a

:27:58.:28:00.

show as a contestant, you are second.

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# Shine a light on me! I am the star, all right, mate, I am

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the star! Get out!

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I love to make contact. With an audience. Because without them, I

:28:17.:28:21.

have got nothing. I have got nothing to offer.

:28:22.:28:25.

We have definitely hit on something here.

:28:26.:28:26.

There is no feeling in the world like pleasing and audience and

:28:27.:28:34.

knowing they have liked you. You know you have left them and they are

:28:35.:28:35.

still enthusiast it. That is what he loved about The One

:28:36.:28:44.

Show, that community viewing and the fact that everybody was sat there of

:28:45.:28:48.

all ages. He was in his element here. But The Generation Game

:28:49.:28:54.

allowed Bruce to interact with the public and create those moments of

:28:55.:28:57.

genius we were watching and we are now joined by the show's producer

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Jim Moir. You first produced Bruce in 1971, 120 shows. Yes, we did. And

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it was as if the show was meant for him. It was a Dutch television show,

:29:12.:29:20.

it was one out of eight, eight contestants which is what we had on

:29:21.:29:24.

The Generation Game and one of them wins. We did a pilot show and in

:29:25.:29:29.

1971, things were less sophisticated. Nowadays if you are

:29:30.:29:32.

launching a big special production, you would go through many pilots, we

:29:33.:29:36.

had one pilot, no outside rehearsal, he turned up on the day having been

:29:37.:29:41.

briefed by me and many telephone calls and meetings, and we shot the

:29:42.:29:44.

pilot Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. It was, to be candid,

:29:45.:29:52.

pretty much a blinding success. Sadly, the first show was not! But

:29:53.:29:59.

in the end, what we did is, we joked around the pilot and the pilot was

:30:00.:30:04.

transmitted as the first show and we became a bit overambitious and

:30:05.:30:09.

carried away by our first success. But he was an intuitive performer.

:30:10.:30:13.

If you trusted you and happily he and I got on absolutely famously in

:30:14.:30:19.

all those 120 shows, I do not think we had a crossword, if you trusted

:30:20.:30:23.

you, he accepted the material and then he made gold from it.

:30:24.:30:28.

Absolutely brilliant. One or two games always stand out in my mind as

:30:29.:30:34.

being classics, in particular, we would all remember the potter's

:30:35.:30:40.

we'll suggested to me by my wife Julia.

:30:41.:30:46.

He looked at the mess they made. And yes, a bit puckered, love. Well

:30:47.:30:59.

puckered. As all have said tonight, he was a genius with people.

:31:00.:31:11.

Caustic, but kind. It looked like it just happened on the Generation Game

:31:12.:31:15.

but Rosemarie, nothing just happen. It was meticulously planned. Very

:31:16.:31:21.

much the professional all of the time. Bruce loved rehearsals and he

:31:22.:31:26.

loved the point where he could sit around and go around a table and

:31:27.:31:32.

throw ideas around. We would rehearse the plays withstandings to

:31:33.:31:38.

see where the pitfalls were. We would rehearse a dance routine and

:31:39.:31:43.

various games. That is what he loved. From this solid base you

:31:44.:31:49.

could go anywhere. Because you had the solid base and once you knew it

:31:50.:31:54.

was there anything could happen. I always felt safe in his hands

:31:55.:31:57.

because whatever happened, he would be there and it would be funny. We

:31:58.:32:04.

have a dance routine you did. Absolute meticulous choreography.

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This taken hours. Thank you! LAUGHTER.

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APPLAUSE Beautifully done.

:32:24.:32:31.

Can you still do that? I have my point shoes still but they have not

:32:32.:32:40.

been on my feet long time. That tutu was from the Royal Ballet. I was

:32:41.:32:45.

amazed I got into it. We did rehearse it a lot and we did a lot

:32:46.:32:51.

of rehearsals. We did one demonstration for the contestants.

:32:52.:32:57.

We had to make sure it was absolutely right, otherwise there

:32:58.:33:00.

was no going back and if we messed it up it would not look good. It was

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such fun. I think I gained wrinkles over those five years because as a

:33:10.:33:15.

performer, Bruce used to involve me in everything. He was so kind. It

:33:16.:33:21.

was that feeling of giving the audience a great time. Meticulous

:33:22.:33:24.

planning, whatever it took to get the most out of the moment. And also

:33:25.:33:32.

he was a star of the Theatre club, the great plays we did when the

:33:33.:33:35.

script was written on bits and pieces of the props. The first time

:33:36.:33:40.

I did it I almost collapsed directing the show. It was fantastic

:33:41.:33:44.

humour and we loved doing them. We have asked you to send in pictures

:33:45.:33:50.

of your cells with Brucie. We have been inundated. This is Bruce and

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Colin in Wentworth in 2009. 2009? The next picture, will it be higher

:34:01.:34:08.

or lower than 2009? They are going lower. It is 2015. Sue met Sir Bruce

:34:09.:34:21.

after a show in Norwich. They were invited backstage and Sir Bruce was

:34:22.:34:26.

a gentleman. Good game, good game. Keep them coming. It will be nice to

:34:27.:34:33.

see them, to see them... Nice. When it comes to catch phrases, didn't he

:34:34.:34:41.

do well? Nice to see you, to see you, nice. Didn't she do well? I let

:34:42.:34:49.

catchphrases happen. I never force them. I'm in charge was my first

:34:50.:34:55.

catchphrase in Beat the Clock. I had a couple who messed up the game

:34:56.:34:59.

completely. I said hold on, and started to show them how to do it.

:35:00.:35:04.

Before I could finish, they started the clock again. I said, hold on,

:35:05.:35:11.

hold on. It is my game, I'm in charge. The next day, a lot of

:35:12.:35:16.

people phoned and said it was a marvellous catchphrase. The best

:35:17.:35:23.

happen when you are working. They are so appealing, OK, dollies,

:35:24.:35:28.

do your dealing. You can get fed up with it, especially when you are

:35:29.:35:33.

out. I went to the cup final and if I heard good game once... I heard it

:35:34.:35:41.

1000 times. Good game, good game. All right, my love? They are

:35:42.:35:47.

marvellous. Things that have happened throughout the years.

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You are so much better. Nice to see you.

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Didn't he do well? Magic. His most recent was of course keep dancing

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and we are joined by Dave Arch from Strictly. Welcome. This will be the

:36:10.:36:13.

first time people have heard you speak. There is no piano to hide

:36:14.:36:20.

behind. What was your relationship with Bruce? He would always nod to

:36:21.:36:27.

you before every show. He was lovely and respected musicians and he

:36:28.:36:32.

always had time for me and the band and would come to say hello, which

:36:33.:36:37.

goes a long way. He loved to feel the warmth of a live orchestra.

:36:38.:36:42.

Wrapping around him almost. We did a warm up every show and he would sing

:36:43.:36:47.

a song every time. It was really good. For the audience it is

:36:48.:36:51.

brilliant when he came on to do his little bit, a bonus. Anton, he also

:36:52.:37:00.

did a stand-up routine. He always did his own warm up. He would come

:37:01.:37:04.

out to the audience and say hello and do ten minutes. Ten minutes of

:37:05.:37:12.

stand-up. Do a song, always get a lady from the audience and dance

:37:13.:37:17.

with a lady and it would be like The Generation Game. 300 people in the

:37:18.:37:23.

studio and I had to pick you! It was nice for us because you felt it

:37:24.:37:30.

can't you down before the show. He was brilliant at putting people at

:37:31.:37:35.

their ease. And sticking up for people when the judges, Craig, were

:37:36.:37:40.

sometimes too harsh. It was not always ladies he danced with. He

:37:41.:37:47.

danced with you, Anton. It was his idea. We were playing golf and after

:37:48.:37:52.

a couple of years of doing the show we were chatting and we loved Frank

:37:53.:37:58.

Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr and they did a great thing, Me And My Shadow.

:37:59.:38:05.

We said how much we liked it. The next year, the series comes around

:38:06.:38:10.

and in the car park egos, we are going to do that number. What

:38:11.:38:15.

number? He said, Me And My Shadow, I have had a word, we are going to do

:38:16.:38:21.

that. Where? He said, on the show. Brilliant. We rehearsed a routine

:38:22.:38:30.

and did it on the show. I have to be honest, this still is one of the

:38:31.:38:34.

highlights of my entire life. Other than the birth of my children, I

:38:35.:38:40.

think this is the highlight of my entire life. Obviously, and getting

:38:41.:38:45.

married. Would you like to see it? Spoil me.

:38:46.:38:56.

# Twelve o'clock, we'll climb the stairs

:38:57.:38:58.

As a performer and dancer, that is the highlight. To be able to do

:38:59.:39:31.

something like that with your absolute hero, to do something you

:39:32.:39:36.

would watch great performers do and get to do it with the greatest

:39:37.:39:42.

performer that we have ever produced bar none, is sort of unbelievable.

:39:43.:39:47.

Still now, it makes me well up a bit. I love it. He is the only

:39:48.:39:52.

partner I have danced with on Strictly Come Dancing who has not

:39:53.:39:58.

gone wrong. A beautiful moment. This is an interesting question, we have

:39:59.:40:03.

seen him in so many facets, as a dancer, host, comedian. Barry, where

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do you think he sits best? Sits best? He was show business on legs.

:40:11.:40:15.

He was everything, you cannot categorise Bruce, you cannot slot

:40:16.:40:20.

him into a category. He was pretty good at all of them. He was on the

:40:21.:40:26.

other nights with Miranda Hart and walked over to the piano and plays

:40:27.:40:30.

Mystique in the style of Errol Garner. He could play. -- Misty. He

:40:31.:40:40.

could not read music. He would get the record and learn it by one

:40:41.:40:46.

finger. He loved jazz. We also listen to Errol Garner. I tried to

:40:47.:40:54.

learn it the way he did it and I could not do it. He was shrewd when

:40:55.:41:01.

he did the Palladium. He did not throw all his talents at the

:41:02.:41:05.

audience immediately. As the weeks went by you thought, wait a minute,

:41:06.:41:09.

he is playing piano. Wait a minute, he is singing with the star of the

:41:10.:41:13.

show. He did not throw it all at them. Saying to him, will you do

:41:14.:41:22.

those 11 things? At the end of the show, Dave and his wonderful

:41:23.:41:27.

orchestra and the Strictly singers will perform a special tribute.

:41:28.:41:32.

First, this is a reminder of Bruce's unique brand of Saturday Night

:41:33.:41:41.

Fever. # I just want you to dance with me

:41:42.:41:47.

tonight. Nice to twirl you, to twirled you.

:41:48.:41:56.

I had the wrong idea about Strictly. I thought it was going to be a

:41:57.:42:01.

comedy show with these contestants trying to dance. They would not be

:42:02.:42:06.

able to and people will be falling all over the place and I would be

:42:07.:42:11.

amongst them, like The Generation Game.

:42:12.:42:15.

I did not realise there is nobody more competitive than a ballroom

:42:16.:42:22.

dancer. They are as competitive as any athlete and somehow they got

:42:23.:42:27.

this into the celebrity. And then we had a different show. A wonderful,

:42:28.:42:31.

wonderful show. Seven.

:42:32.:42:39.

Don't tell the others, you're my favourite.

:42:40.:42:47.

# Let me entertain you. Tell me, Tom, have I still got it?

:42:48.:43:00.

Yes, Bruce, but it looks worn out to me. You are working with a legend,

:43:01.:43:07.

don't you understand that? Gangnam Style. I do apologise. My

:43:08.:43:23.

behaviour was totes inappropes. Oh, we have gone all Strictly. This

:43:24.:43:24.

set is lovely. No ideas. Strictly Come Dancing

:43:25.:43:30.

kicks off its new series Bruce always believed

:43:31.:43:32.

'the show must go on' and, to keep that spirit alive,

:43:33.:43:36.

we wanted to play our part by honouring the One Show

:43:37.:43:38.

tradition of revealing Brian Conley, Mollie

:43:39.:43:40.

King and Simon Rimmer. The first celebrity

:43:41.:43:50.

joining them is.... That is the music that makes you

:43:51.:44:00.

feel sick. She was once asked what first

:44:01.:44:03.

attracted her to her She's been dissected,

:44:04.:44:06.

locked up and made to disappear. She was part of the longest-running

:44:07.:44:12.

ever magic show in the West End. Hello, Debbie. Congratulations.

:44:13.:44:35.

Hello, Debbie, nice to see you. Oh, my word. This is exciting. You said

:44:36.:44:39.

you have had your first day of rehearsal. Yes, and I trod on Matt's

:44:40.:44:50.

tone. Was it fun? Totally exciting. It was nerve-racking. But we had a

:44:51.:44:56.

ball already. We are like you do it already. Everybody got on. They

:44:57.:45:01.

could not shut us up and then we met the pros and they really could not

:45:02.:45:06.

shut us up. Somebody had to get a whistle to shut us up so we can

:45:07.:45:10.

start dancing and we have already been dancing today. Once you start,

:45:11.:45:16.

you do not stop. It is not the first time we have met. I did Strictly

:45:17.:45:21.

with your husband Paul Daniels. Did his experience inspire you to do

:45:22.:45:26.

this? I always loved the programme and wanted to do it and when he got

:45:27.:45:32.

it I was really jealous. I wanted to do it. I loved it when he did it and

:45:33.:45:37.

so yes, of course. When they rang and said whether I would like to do

:45:38.:45:39.

it, yes. Just getting back to your late

:45:40.:45:52.

husband, Paul, Sir Bruce was a big inspiration of his. Whenever Paul

:45:53.:45:57.

was interviewed, he said his inspiration was Bruce and when he

:45:58.:46:02.

gave a masterclass to a young music -- magician, he said do not watch a

:46:03.:46:06.

magician, watch somebody in show business who has been there a long

:46:07.:46:11.

time and he would always name Bruce. You were there, Matt, you would not

:46:12.:46:15.

have known this because I was in the audience every week, half an hour

:46:16.:46:19.

before the recording, Bruce would come in and kick the warm up man off

:46:20.:46:23.

and entertain us for half an hour before the cameras were rolling. And

:46:24.:46:28.

as soon as he walked into that studio, and it has its own

:46:29.:46:32.

electricity, but when Bruce walked in, it lit up. He just filled it.

:46:33.:46:37.

That is lovely memories of him. You have sat there and watched it and

:46:38.:46:40.

now you are going to do it. I cannot believe it! It is out there, good

:46:41.:46:45.

luck! You can talk to people about it now!

:46:46.:46:51.

So let's find out who else is going to be joining Q.

:46:52.:46:53.

OK, well... He's used to being

:46:54.:46:54.

first past the post. His face has been

:46:55.:46:56.

on first-class stamps. A post box in Doddington

:46:57.:46:59.

was painted gold in his honour. It's gold-medal winning

:47:00.:47:05.

Paralympian Jonnie Peacock! Jonnie! Good to see you, body!

:47:06.:47:17.

Welcome! Hello, Jonnie!

:47:18.:47:23.

Congratulations. Have a seat. Your first question, with a name like

:47:24.:47:26.

Peacock, you must be really excited about the feathers! Yes, you do not

:47:27.:47:33.

be giving them ideas to early! How did today go for you, we heard from

:47:34.:47:38.

Debbie about the first Major day of rehearsal? It was great fun, I got

:47:39.:47:42.

the chance to do a Waltz with Debbie. I did not start on her toes,

:47:43.:47:48.

that was a bonus. Day one and OK. As the first Paralympian to take part

:47:49.:47:53.

in Strictly, it is a big thing, what will be the challenges for you? This

:47:54.:47:58.

is the first time they have got a disabled person on the main show so

:47:59.:48:02.

that is going to be really good, I think. Hopefully, we can change the

:48:03.:48:11.

stigma. It is about time! We did... A dancer came to check out my

:48:12.:48:14.

movement patterns to see what would be a restriction with my legs and

:48:15.:48:18.

she quickly realised it was me that was the restriction and not the leg!

:48:19.:48:23.

If you do see me not dance so well, do not blame it on the leg. Although

:48:24.:48:28.

I might try and use it as an excuse! You should have kept that quiet!

:48:29.:48:32.

Will you be using your sprinting is that it? No, that is a slightly

:48:33.:48:37.

different alignment, but I might have to get something made for a

:48:38.:48:41.

quick dance like the Jive. Or the quick step!

:48:42.:48:47.

Focus on the close ones first. Everything will go well.

:48:48.:48:51.

Let's complete our line-up for Strictly 2017. Stand by!

:48:52.:48:56.

She is the daughter of a Soul to Soul singer.

:48:57.:49:05.

She's already proved she's got the X Factor.

:49:06.:49:07.

Hello! Thank you so much. This is so exciting! I am so excited, I am so

:49:08.:49:28.

nervous. What are you most nervous about? He was such an experienced

:49:29.:49:32.

performer! It is so different, I am a singer, I am not a dancer at all.

:49:33.:49:37.

The dancing I have done with my songs, it is completely different to

:49:38.:49:41.

this. This is such a challenge. It is the show I have wanted to be a

:49:42.:49:45.

part for the longest time so it is a massive dream come. Massively. There

:49:46.:49:53.

is nearly more pressure. Me, no expectation! But you, lots of

:49:54.:49:59.

expectation! My family has just found out just now because I kept it

:50:00.:50:06.

from them. Sorry, guys! But they all, they all said to me, my mum

:50:07.:50:11.

said, if you ever get Strictly one day, it will be great. I said, I

:50:12.:50:16.

don't know Latin and ballroom! It is completely different. Doing the

:50:17.:50:20.

waltz today felt fabulous, but it is so nerve-racking. Was this on your

:50:21.:50:26.

radar, Strictly? On my radar! Is it too soon to runaway! Did it come as

:50:27.:50:33.

a surprise or did you say, can I do it? It was a fantastic offer, and it

:50:34.:50:38.

was too good to turn down. For me, I have never danced before, it is not

:50:39.:50:42.

something... IMO is the last person on the dance floor, paralytic or

:50:43.:50:50.

stored by the bar! Never on the dance floor. I wanted to challenge

:50:51.:50:53.

myself. This is something wet experiences like this, you grow as a

:50:54.:50:59.

person. It will be a journey! That famous word! Alexandra, you have

:51:00.:51:06.

been in Sister Act the West End and Craig was a choreographer. Do you

:51:07.:51:10.

think it is going to be tough for you? Yes, I am touring the show

:51:11.:51:15.

right now, I am on the show tomorrow and he is going to be brutal! He was

:51:16.:51:20.

like that just directed the show! He put me through my paces. With this,

:51:21.:51:26.

I have said as long as it is constructive criticism, am ready for

:51:27.:51:29.

it because that is how you learn. He is going to be horrendous to me, I

:51:30.:51:34.

am sure! This is the line-up. It is now complete. There you all are!

:51:35.:51:42.

Friends and enemies! No! We have a special message for you

:51:43.:51:49.

from former head judge Len. View three, good luck! I am sure you are

:51:50.:51:54.

going to get out there, shaking and baking, the only sadness, you will

:51:55.:52:02.

not be getting a ten from Len. Bless him! We wish you the very best. We

:52:03.:52:09.

know how it is going to go, good luck from all others! And good luck

:52:10.:52:13.

to whoever is going to lift that mirror ball! Not long.

:52:14.:52:19.

Yes, many younger viewers will only know Bruce is the presenter of

:52:20.:52:22.

Strictly but decades before he ruled the dance floor, he was very much

:52:23.:52:28.

King of the game show. # Life Is The Name Of The Game and I

:52:29.:52:32.

want to play the game with you. It was back in 1971 when BBC

:52:33.:52:36.

producers and Bruce Forsyth unleashed a new game show based on a

:52:37.:52:42.

new Dutch TV format. Nice to see you, to see you... Nice! This was

:52:43.:52:50.

prescribed family viewing. Saturday night, The Generation Game. You have

:52:51.:52:57.

a deaf white cat called botch? He is quite deaf. Must be trouble at night

:52:58.:53:03.

getting him in! Here, Kitty! He took hold of it, grabbed it by the scruff

:53:04.:53:07.

of the neck and he knew that he could make it work. The parrot goes

:53:08.:53:16.

like this... Starting from now! He portrays the man who is running the

:53:17.:53:21.

show and everything, but he loves it when things start falling apart. The

:53:22.:53:29.

worst, the better Bruce Forsyth became. This is your big dying scene

:53:30.:53:35.

so you let the as bite you on the bus. Which one? On the conveyor belt

:53:36.:53:42.

tonight, Christmas hamper, a trade, a rotisserie. A cuddly... He helped

:53:43.:53:49.

them. A digital clock? Bruce was giving the answers. Silver goblets

:53:50.:53:51.

as well. Suddenly, these shows were not just

:53:52.:54:03.

a show in their own right, they were Brucie. The price is right! Putting

:54:04.:54:11.

the name and gave it the stamp of approval. Everybody has a favourite

:54:12.:54:14.

Bruce, The Generation Game or the price is right. For me, it was Play

:54:15.:54:24.

Your Cards Right. Jack! Seven. All the stuff since Generation Game,

:54:25.:54:27.

they had been different games, but it has kind of been the same Brucie

:54:28.:54:33.

in the middle. That everybody loves. Do you want to bet on it? Well, you

:54:34.:54:39.

better get on it. So don't fret, get set, are you ready? You bet! Bruce

:54:40.:54:45.

wet his game show magic any new audience in 2010. Have I Got News

:54:46.:54:54.

for You, for you, have I got... News! Was not entirely sure it was a

:54:55.:54:58.

good idea to have Bruce Forsyth hosting the show, he was not the

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obvious choice for a topical news quiz. He did not trust to the show,

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he took over. It is definitely time for... Play your Iraqi cards right!

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By the end of it, he had sort of stormed it. Tony Blair insists that

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weapons of mass destruction would eventually be found in Iraq. Well,

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it would be nice to see them, to see them... Nice! When I look back, I do

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realise I did too many game shows. But you see, you could do them some

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quick and the money was fantastic. What he does looks easy, it looks

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fun, what he does looks as if it is just happening off the spirit of the

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moment. But what he is doing has been meticulously planned because

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make no mistake about it, this man is a real pro.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. What a programme this has been!

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It has been lovely. Thank you to all our

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guests for joining us And we have had a message from

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Bruce's family. It is from Lady Forsyth and his children. They would

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like to thank the many people who have sent messages of condolence.

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Our hearts are truly broken and the tributes paid to him in the last few

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days have helped us tremendously through this very difficult time. It

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has been humbling and comforting the others to realise just how much

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Bruce was loved and how many lives he touched.

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Indeed. We leave you now with some more

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of the photos you've been sending And Dave Arch's special arrangement

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of the Generation Game theme, # If you don't play

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the game with two # And I'd be so pleased

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to go with you # If you don't play

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the game with two # Live every minute

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of each hour, of every day # Well, don't you dare give way

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when it's time to play # And I wanna race

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the tracks with you # If you don't play

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the game with two # And you may find lots

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of trouble and strife

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