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
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.
Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.
People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.
Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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.
You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian - he was an actor and a great writer.
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.