Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE is an English television presenter and entertainer whose career spans 75 years. In 2012, Guinness World Records recognised Forsyth as having the longest television career for a male entertainer. Forsyth came to national attention from the mid-1950s through the ITV series Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Since then he has hosted series such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right and You Bet!. He co-presented Strictly Come Dancing from...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGame Show Host
Date of Birth22 February 1928
CityLondon, England
I can't wait for the new series to start - even my feet are getting anxious.
I'd like to be next to Judy Dench purely because I think she might get me a part as a Bond villain. I think I would be a good villain.
I can't wait to get on that Avenue and dance on my little patch,
It's very nice to get the title, and especially to know that you have made contact with young people and that they like what you're doing.
You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian - he was an actor and a great writer.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.
Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.
If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.
In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.