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# Sometimes I'm happy... APPLAUSE Hello and welcome to | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the One Show with Alex Jones. Now it may be Monday night, | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
but tonight we're going to spend an hour celebrating the king | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
of Saturday night - Sir Bruce Forsyth, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
who died last week. I've never known a man more in love | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
with the concept of show business. Tonight we're celebrating | :00:44. | :00:56. | |
his life and career We will cover all aspects of Bruce's | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
career and we will reveal the final three contestants of this year's | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Strictly. I'm sure they would have been Bruce's favourites, of course. | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
Let's welcome guests who have played a significant chapter in his story. | :01:19. | :01:30. | |
And we have somebody who shared the Strictly dance floor. Let's welcome | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
Kenny Lynch, Rosemarie Ford and Anton du Beke. And later we have | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Strictly's Dave Arch and his wonderful orchestra and they will be | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
here for a special musical tribute at the end of the show. Where do we | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
start? At the beginning. The first time you met. The first time I met | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
him was in a barbershop. I had gone to the barber two hours before and I | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
saw a picture of Bruce on the wall, by the mirror. I said to the Barber, | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
I know him, what is his name? He said, Bruce Forsyth. I thought, why | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
do I know him? In those days, it was variety bills and I had seen him. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
When? I would not like to mention! 70 something. We were pals 55 years. | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
He said he is coming in later, he is a regular like you. He said come | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
over in an hour. I said I have not got time for that rubbish. It was in | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Gerard Street in the West End and I was probably shopping. I did go past | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
an hour later and I saw him and he called me in, the Barber, and he | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
introduced us. It was about four, five weeks from taking over The | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Generation Game. I met him in the BBC Roundhouse, in the bar, and we | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
started talking and discovered we had a love of jazz. The same as me, | :03:13. | :03:24. | |
he loved pianists and singers. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan. Oscar | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Peterson. After that day we were inseparable. Rosemarie, how about | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
you? This was probably 1985, 86, and I was working for a choreographer | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
called Nigel Lythgoe and I was a dancer on his shows. He had | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
different specials. We did a comedy routine which was great fun and a | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
while after that, before The Generation Game, I was on a Royal | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
variety singing for Andrew Lloyd Webber. Rather fortunate. Bruce | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
said, who is that girl? You know, she did the comedy ballet routine. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
He said let's get her in, I want somebody for The Generation Game. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
And I got to know him better from that point but I was just a dancer | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
on his show. I was starstruck because I wanted to be you, | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
Rosemarie, back in the day. And Anton, I imagine it was Strictly. I | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
met him once before that. We were just talking about this. I did one | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
of the old Come Dancings. Rosemarie used to host them and Bruce did one | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
show as a guest and it was one I was doing and he has been my hero, I | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
have always loved him. I asked his manager, whoever at the time, saying | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
can I meet him, please? He said, of course. I went to his dressing room | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
and said it is a pleasure, an honour to meet you, thank you very much. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
What do you say to your hero? He said yes, lovely. And walked out. Is | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
that it? Is that all you could say, hello? And Strictly Come Dancing | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
came around and Brucie was going to be the host. Although we did not | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
know what Strictly Come Dancing would be like. We knew as dancers it | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
is wonderful, but Brucie, being the host and being able to work with | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Brucie on a show was sort of, you know, I had been sent to heaven. We | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
did the launch show, press day, I think at Claridges and all the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
professionals and celebrities were fair and the press and Bruce and | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Tess Daly came out. We were putting our frocks on and stuff. Brucie was | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
saying hello and I remember looking and going hello, again! Hello, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
lovely. We got chatting. After the show we spoke about golf. We are | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
both keen golfers. And after the first series of Strictly Come | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Dancing, he invited me to his place and we played golf and I met him at | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
the house and we went off and played golf. It was incredible. I could not | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
believe it. I could not believe... To be in a show with Brucie is one | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
thing. We all work together. To be in the buggy with Brucie. He was a | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
terrible driver of a golf buggy. Kenny would know about that. He does | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
not too good in the car, either. Both Alex and I, our experiences | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
with Strictly, but from my perspective I remember when I was | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
stood so close to him at the first time, at the judges' moment when you | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
are waiting and he is mesmerising, to think I am in his company. He was | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
always moving. When he met Anton, because I studied The Generation | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Game and I was asked to present Come Dancing and Bruce said, I always | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
wanted to be on Come Dancing. , She said, can you ask if they will let | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
me on. They were like yes, but, this is Bruce. I said he does not want | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
anything, just a bit of lunch and a cup of tea. He does not want any | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
thing, he just wants to be on the programme. He has a wonderful way | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
and you will know this. You are in the studio rehearsing. You are doing | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
a run through, the day before, you will be doing something and suddenly | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
there will be a frisson in the background and you think, what is | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
that? And Bruce has arrived. You did not have to turn around, you knew he | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
was there. This charisma. I remember walking into the rehearsal room and | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
he had this way, charisma. I was sitting at home and people from my | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
village were coming and knocking on the door and saying they were sorry | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
and I had never spoken to them in my life, just people knocking on the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
door to say they knew how close I was with him. We have an hour to | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
talk about him. Let's relax and enjoy it and celebrate his life. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
He appealed to people of all ages from different backgrounds. We have | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
favourite memories, but what did he mean to you? We went to the home of | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
ballroom, Blackpool,. And his spiritual home, the London | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Palladium. From the moment he stepped in he would say hello, make | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
you feel like you could have a conversation with him. He would | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
store his sandwiches in the fridge and it was nice when he popped into | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
the office to make sure nobody had eaten them. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Didn't he do well? You are my favourite. Bruce Forsyth, childhood | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
memories of family entertainment, traditional, family values and a | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
good entertainer. When you watched him, you felt you knew him well. I | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
like to see him dance. To do his shovels. Brucie was Brucie, he was | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
telling. We will miss him madly. All about Strictly Come Dancing and the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
famous bit where Mark and Karen did their dance and it went wrong and | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Bruce steps in like a pro. I love it, live television! He let them do | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
it again and we enjoyed the dance. Nice to see you, to see you, nice. | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
Didn't he do well? Give us a twirl. As a child I saw him on the telly | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
and more recently on Strictly, and we are avid watchers every year. He | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
made my weekend. Ready, steady, go. Bruce was more talented than just | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
his game shows. He was a great pianist, tap dancer, all those | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
things. He will be missed by loads of people. I'm in charge! He brought | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
in new phrases and ideas. Bruce was original. I loved it when he said | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
that. It was really funny. Keep dancing! I knew Brucie when I was | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
little, as a student, and up to the last years, I still liked him on | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Strictly Come Dancing. He was a star. | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
I think there are some of your neighbours, Kenny. Thank you for | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
taking part in the film and we would love to hear from you at home. If | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
you met Bruce, perhaps you were a contestant on his game shows, or in | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
the audience on Strictly. Send them to the address with your name and | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
details and we will show as many as we can but important, please put the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
year. We have lovely photos of the three of you and lovely moments from | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
your career. Kenny, it might be from 1978. Are these the three Fivers? Me | :11:48. | :12:07. | |
and friends talking about the three Tenors. He had an idea that will we | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
should do it. We said we could be the Three Fivers. The record company | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
guy thought it was a good idea. We did it. What the boys did not | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
realise, not being pop stars like myself, what they did not realise, | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
when you bring out a record, you have to go up and down the country | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
to different radio shows. Mersey radio, all over. I gave them a | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
schedule of what we should do and they can tap me as if I was potty. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
They were going, we ain't going up there. I did some on my own. Good on | :12:48. | :12:58. | |
you. I was driving home from a gig one night. It came on the news, | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
which was great, and it said me and Jimmy and Bruce, they were going to | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
take away our record, because they did not like the idea of the Three | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Fivers. The Bruce used to go to football. We supported Malaga | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
because we had flats there. And we would sit near placid au Domingo. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
And he asked about taking the record out. He said what record? I said I | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
called us the Three Fivers. He could not stop laughing. They find us | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
10,000, as well. I think Jimmy must have paid it because me and Bruce | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
definitely didn't! We move onto a picture of yourself, Rosemarie. Look | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
at that. That is the classic I want to be you from Alex Jones. That | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
dress. I loved wearing the dresses, every week choosing something | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
different and having it made and going to designers. It was special. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
On the day of filming, what would be your routine before you got to the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
studio floor? When we first started rehearsals, because it was a big | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
step and quite scary because you know once the first programme goes | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
out, your life is going to change. Because you are the new girl on the | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Generation Game. I thought years before watching with my parents, | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
little did I know I would be the next girl on the Generation Game and | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
so it was a huge step. It started usually having a cup of tea and a | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
digestive biscuit because he liked to put me at my ease, because I was | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
nervous. We realised we needed to build up a nice rapport for it to | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
work anyway. He would spend time every rehearsal day and he would say | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
come and sit down. We would chat about his daughters and about | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
everything. And the shows I had done and the choreographers. It was a | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
special way of building up the relationship and I feel very | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
fortunate I had the time to build up that relationship and work with him | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
in that way, which was just doing everything, all the dance routines | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
and comedy plays. Everything. I even sat with Cleo Laine. We will talk | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
about the Generation Game tonight because we have the producer Jim | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Moir coming on. And we have a photo of you Anton, you singing and | :15:51. | :15:51. | |
dancing with Sir Bruce. Bruce was an old-school entertainer | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
with timeless appeal. He was a variety performer | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
in the truest sense of the word. Here's a look at his early years | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
to see where and how Bruce joseph Forsyth Johnson was | :16:01. | :16:16. | |
born in 1928 in Edmonton, North London, where his father owned a | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
garage business. It was not long before Bruce's Spock was kindled. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
From the age of nine when I first saw if Fred Astaire film and he | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
danced, it just did something to my brain, my body, and all I wanted to | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
do was dance. I used to dance my dad's garage roof. We had 32 lock-up | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
garages and they really did not make a noise so I would see Fred Astaire | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
doing this model is routine dancing on the roof and I would get up and I | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
would dance on the roof and the rain would come and the garages would | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
leak! Bruce's first TV appearance was in | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
1939, and a talent show. I went on and she did the little interview | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
with me and she said, OK, you will get up and sing and dance, I | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
believe? I said, yes, I had been dancing for about a year now, tap | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
dancing. That would be lovely. What is your ambition? I said, I want to | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
become a star and to buy my mum a fur coat! | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
She used to make the little satin suits that I would wear and she | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
would stay up till 2am making these little dancing suits. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
By the age of 14, younger Bruce had honed his song and dance routine for | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
the stage. I used to call myself Boy Bruce, the mighty atom. And I got a | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
job for five quid and I worked the theatre in Bilston. It was the most | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
awful place to work. And at the end of the week, the takings were so | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
bad, I got 13 and 4p in old money. Things looked up when Bruce got a | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
chance to join the line-up at London's Windmill Theatre. Famous | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
for the review which featured scantily clad showgirls and | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
comedians like Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers. It was the most | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
wonderful place and so many of our great comics started at the Windmill | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
to find out if they had value regarding being an entertainer. I | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
think the worst moment was when I was at the Empress, Brixton. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
Remember going there and dying as a whole week. Absolutely dying. And it | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
was the most horrible week of my life. I did myself five years and if | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
I did not make it, get out. I did not want to be a frustrated pro, it | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
would hate to be that. Bruce's big break came in 1958 when he was 30. | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
This theatre changed my life completely. I went from a summer | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
season in Eastbourne with just 200 people may be on a Saturday night | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
and then travelling up to London to the Palladium with 2,500 people. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
This was a mecca. Good evening! | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
# Ladies and gents are, welcome to Sunday night at the London | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
Palladium! They used to get a Church service | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
over early and the pubs shut early because Sunday night at the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Palladium was on it was a gnome is. Sunday night at the Palladium was a | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
wonderful life lunatic event. Made more lunatic by the presence of this | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
stick then insect. It was a big family occasion and largely because | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
of him. The whole family loved Brucie. The cool thing about Bruce | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
was that when people like Sammy was coming and he would stands with him, | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
he kept up with him and that was like, this is cool! | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
With me making such a hit on those first few weeks, I finished up with | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Sunday night at the Palladium every Sunday. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Thank you very much! My mother never even saw me hit it | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
big. I always felt very sad that after all the years of some of those | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
sequins on the things she never saw me be a big name of the business. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
But I always say she was up there and I am sure she met a couple of | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
agents up there. And she got me the job. I still believe that to this | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
day. Charity macro. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
That was lovely to watch. It was lovely. We have also been joined by | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
former writer and friend Barry Cryer. Thank you so at you and Bruce | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
had been friends 60 years. Yes, it was the Windmill and we did six | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
shows a day, six days a week and this man was brilliant six times a | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
day. The rest of us were sweating because they have not come in to see | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
you telling jokes, it was to see our friend posing and dancing. I got the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
impression Bruce, the energy of that man was just amazing. We sat in the | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
canteen one day and he said, I am thinking of packing it in. I said, | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
what are you talking about? So that was back in the Windmill? 1957. So | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
he was in his 20s? Yes, pushing 30 by then. I said, what are you going | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
to do and as a joke, he said, I'm going to have a little tobacconist. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
The following year, 1958, I hear my friend is now the new Compere of | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Sunday night at the Palladium and walking down Kingsway in London and | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
there he is. He had been to a press conference, his first was coming up | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
that Sunday live, in those days, millions of viewers. I said, what | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
happens to the tobacconist? Postponed! A very long time after | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
that, the years go on and I work with him on The Generation Game and | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
TV specials. When you say work, how did you work with him, what was your | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
relationship like? You gave Bruce ideas rather than tight script. You | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
knew whatever tight script she gave him, he would be running off it | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
brilliantly with whatever was happening. He loved people. He loved | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
something going wrong, that is what he almost wanted to happen. I will | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
tell you a story about a woman in The Generation Game. Bruce could be | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
rude to somebody but everybody would laugh because they knew it was not | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
real, it was affectionate. A small woman was being very verbose and The | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Generation Game, going on and on, and Bruce embraced her and he looked | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
at the audience over her head. And she went in a long story about being | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
in Bellevue zoo in Manchester. She said at one point, Bruce, I thought | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
the Lion was going to drag me into his cage. He looked over head of the | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
camera and he said, I wish he had! Anybody else saying that, but | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
everybody laughed including her and that was the great gift the man had, | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
sending them up and making fun of them, but in a warm way and | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
involving them. He loved them getting a laugh. The bigger shame, | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
something many people have said, actually, there was only one Bruce | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
and there is nobody else we can think of that is following in his | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
footsteps, nobody... Merely, Anton! Nobody has quite got the full | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
package! Anti-very much! He could do the lot. He could sing and dance and | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
play the piano and everything. And where he was very shrewd when he | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
took over the Palladium, he did not throw it all at the audience | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
immediately. He let it creep in and week by week. He is playing the | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
piano, he is singing with that star, he has just done an impression of | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Sammy Davis Jr. The man could do the lot! When you start thinking about | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
that transition from the stage, on the television, and using the camera | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
as an extra member of the audience. How he managed to do that. He had an | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
instinct, Bruce, with the camera in front of him. He had been schooled | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
in the live audience, but it was still a live audience and boy, he | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
knew where the camera was. That looks suddenly over to the camera | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
and he could work the camera. But his obsession was people. He was | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
wonderful with people. Whoever you met, walking down the street or a | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
waitress or anybody, hello! He was the same. There was no sort of | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
celebrity thing, leave me alone, I'm walking down the street. And people | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
would sense that, I think. You are going to stay with us a bit longer. | :25:02. | :25:02. | |
Thank you. Bruce was married to | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
former Miss World winner But it was his love affair | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
with the audience that made him the undisputed king | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
of light entertainment. Here's a look back at that | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
special relationship. Good evening! Fancy sitting there in | :25:13. | :25:27. | |
a sport shirt! The first thing about audience | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
participation, you have got to enjoy it. | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
Is this a husband? Well, you can't have everything! I | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
have always loved it, because you never know what is going to happen. | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
Stand up, let's have a look at you! Blimey! I love getting out of a | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
situation. If somebody says something, I like to go back at them | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and if they do something, I love to pounce on it. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
I love the hat, dear! Yes, like a blancmange gone wrong! | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
He never alienates anybody, he brings people with him, includes | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
them in his joke. If he ends up being the but of the joke, that is | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
fine by him, he loves that. The lines are on the back of your | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
fan! The thing I love about Bruce, he he has a complete ability to | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
react to any strange member of the public. Argh! Anybody who has | :26:19. | :26:30. | |
switched off -- switch on, they will think we have gone mad! He turns it | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
into comedy gold. I cannot see anything if I put them on now!, I | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
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? | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
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. | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
# Shine a light on me! I am the star, all right, mate, I am | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
the star! Get out! | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
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 | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
Jim Moir. You first produced Bruce in 1971, 120 shows. Yes, we did. And | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
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. | :32:05. | :32:05. | |
This taken hours. Thank you! LAUGHTER. | :32:06. | :32:23. | |
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 | :33:01. | :33:09. | |
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 | :33:51. | :34:00. | |
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. | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
You are so much better. Nice to see you. | :35:54. | :36:04. | |
Didn't he do well? Magic. His most recent was of course keep dancing | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
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 | :40:04. | :40:10. | |
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 | :54:59. | :55:01. | |
obvious choice for a topical news quiz. He did not trust to the show, | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
he took over. It is definitely time for... Play your Iraqi cards right! | :55:06. | :55:15. | |
By the end of it, he had sort of stormed it. Tony Blair insists that | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
weapons of mass destruction would eventually be found in Iraq. Well, | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
it would be nice to see them, to see them... Nice! When I look back, I do | :55:25. | :55:32. | |
realise I did too many game shows. But you see, you could do them some | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
quick and the money was fantastic. What he does looks easy, it looks | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
fun, what he does looks as if it is just happening off the spirit of the | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
moment. But what he is doing has been meticulously planned because | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
make no mistake about it, this man is a real pro. | :55:52. | :55:59. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. What a programme this has been! | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
It has been lovely. Thank you to all our | :56:03. | :56:04. | |
guests for joining us And we have had a message from | :56:05. | :56:19. | |
Bruce's family. It is from Lady Forsyth and his children. They would | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
like to thank the many people who have sent messages of condolence. | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
Our hearts are truly broken and the tributes paid to him in the last few | :56:30. | :56:32. | |
days have helped us tremendously through this very difficult time. It | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
has been humbling and comforting the others to realise just how much | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
Bruce was loved and how many lives he touched. | :56:40. | :56:40. | |
Indeed. We leave you now with some more | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
of the photos you've been sending And Dave Arch's special arrangement | :56:45. | :56:47. | |
of the Generation Game theme, # If you don't play | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
the game with two # And I'd be so pleased | :56:52. | :57:25. | |
to go with you # If you don't play | :57:26. | :57:35. | |
the game with two # Live every minute | :57:36. | :57:43. | |
of each hour, of every day # Well, don't you dare give way | :57:44. | :57:53. | |
when it's time to play # And I wanna race | :57:54. | :58:03. | |
the tracks with you # If you don't play | :58:04. | :58:14. | |
the game with two # And you may find lots | :58:15. | :58:30. | |
of trouble and strife | :58:31. | :58:43. |