Some of us are old enough to remember him hosting Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Congratulations Brucie. We love you (I spent a lovely afternoon with him once sipping large cocktails on the beach in San Juan).

I'm old enough to remember him being old ...

but I like Bruce Forsyth.

I once had the misfortune to have to talk to him when he was due to play a round of golf, and my god does he take that 'game' seriously, so he was barking every other minute, 'Come on, I gotta play GOLF!!! GOLF!!! GOTTA PLAY GOLF!!!!!!!!!!' He also appears, physically, to have become Tommy Trinder. A face like a pair of bollocks dried by poor air conditioning. Trinder-Forsyth. No mean, though perverse, trick. And he now seems to have treated hiself to a blond toop. He should have retired ten years ago.

Like Ms Minge I'm not his greatest fan either. Far too aggressive for my tastes. Bob Monkhouse I adored for example.