So Bruce Forsyth was 180 years old last week.

A massive happy returns; it’s amazing that he survived the Boer War and forged such a successful career in showbusiness.  He was of course too old to be called up to WWI and WWII.

Seriously though, he has his detractors, he has had his embarrassing moments and he has even had hi flops (both of those last to mainly on Bruce Forsyth’s Big Night in 1978…)

Yet here is a man who can act, dance, sing, tell jokes and present.  He might not be all that good at any one of those, but he is a consummate professional, and amazingly sprightly for his advanced years.

If he has been born in America, he would have been in movies.  Think about that – we don’t know how lucky we really are…

So Brucey, Happy Birthday.

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