Dangerous Ian Bond wrote:jimjim wrote:Bruce Forysth - he's one of the few celebrities that makes a crap show actually worth watching. Great with an audience and the 'contestants'.
You hear this sort of thing a lot about Forsyth - it's as if we're
supposed to like one of these TV hosts, so it might as well be him. And he does it all so well, etc.
Just a little bit puzzling. I mean, what does he have to offer the likes of us?
It baffles me, he is someone I can absolutely not watch on TV. He comes across as an arrogant little man, with such a small reservoir of talent it is barely noticeable. If aliens landed in my backyard tonight and asked me for one human sacrifice in order to save the rest of the human race, I'd say "Forsyth!" just like that. Wouldn't even think about it. I'd go "Bruce Forsyth!" the second the alien stopped speaking. I'd offer to Google up his whereabouts for them. I would sketch him to make sure they knew what he looked like.
I remember a few years back, between his peak years and his comeback, he was dragged out on a chatshow as an expert on salsa dancing (!) and he had a little spot where he did a demonstration of salsa dancing, which consisted of him picking "volunteers" (i.e. the youngest, most attractive women) out of the audience and grinding his wizened old crotch up against them one by one, hissing "
PUT YOUR SHOULDERS BACK, LOVE!" at his victims, and leering over their shoulders at the chat show host, shouting "This one's a lovely mover, isn't she?!", spit dribbling down his bizarre and otherworldly chin. HORRIBLE.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Horrible..