Is the hate for Bruce due to ageism?
Scorpio2
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I noticed that when Bruce turned 80 everyone turned on him and started calling for his retirement, was that because of his age? because if it is it's petty because MANY men Bruces age are in nursing homes and can barely walk and Brucie is great.
Bruce is old school and I would rather watch him on Strictly instead of someone like John Barrowman or Vernon Kay.
Bruce is old school and I would rather watch him on Strictly instead of someone like John Barrowman or Vernon Kay.
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I wouldn't worry.
People have been calling for Bruce's retirement since before he started working. It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with taste.
Bruce can still do the ad-libs and work an audience, but he can't do the basics anymore, reading the autocue, remembering the contestants names, delivering a script etc.
I don't hate Bruce, I just think the show would be better with a different presenter.
The only way I see it ending is when he says or does something so embarrassing or offensive that the spineless BBC are forced to take action.
Alternatively, Victoria was a crap dancer and Bruce is a crap presenter.
No the hate for brucie isnt down to ageism
There comes a time in everyones life where they cannot carry on in their job due to their age.
Its why people retire.
Happens to everyone....boxers, footballers, actors etc etc
Bruce is one of our greatest ever all round entertainers, but he physically cant do the job anymore.
The man needs to retire and he needs to do it without any newspaper reports of "oh the bbc pushed me out, i could have carried on etc etc"
He just needs to leave gracefully
If he could still cut the mustard I wouldn't care if he was 24, 84 or 104. Unfortunately he can't. Simple as that.
He's not my first choice for Strictly but when he was away, the presenters were lacking something.
When he decides to give up Strictly, I hope they find a good personality to replace him and not leave those two women to host it.
sad and so obviously true
he does need to go and I personally thought the show was much slicker and held together better with Tess and Claudia
Ironically some or all of that is thats a danger with Len and Bruno and its certainly there with Claudia too.
Much of the time people miss the point that he's putting it on some of the time. It just might not be a wise thing to do given the lack of current TV comedy elsewhere.
I literally groan most of the time it's his turn. I feel so sorry for Tess, she has a tough time getting him through a show.
Nothing to do with ageism, just being able to do a competant job. Go and enjoy retirement Brucie. Gawd knows you've earned it.
I like Sir Bruce's old school clean approach, I personally think that the real reason is jealousy.
a. Rubbish
b. Embarrasing
c. A shadow of his former self
d. totally replacable
JJ
BTW - I'm ancient too - I saw him in his prime 50 years ago so its definitely not ageism.
If you are going to make such silly statements, at least get the correct word! It should be "envy"! In other words we are all envious of him - I don't think so!
I agree Sir Bruce just does a parody of the doddery image for laughs, they just need to get rid of the auto cue maching & let him ad lib which is what he does best.
There's not much sense in quoting a couple of pretty awful potential alternatives as a justification for keeping anyone. You might as well have suggested Jedward as a reason for maintaining the status quo..
As for ageism, some of us are not very far behind him in the queue outside the undertakers but that doesn't stop us thinking enough is enough.
And hate? I reserve that for evil rather than utterly tiresome.
......and they'll carry on until he, or the BBC takes the hint
Up to the last series I would have defended Bruce hosting Strictly but this series he definitely is struggling and I find that very sad and think he should make this his last series.
I did think though that the week he wasn't there and the judges had that argument that had Bruce been there he would have stopped it. Tess just let it go on far too long
People would like to see Bruce retire from SCD because they care. They care enough not to want Bruce to continue to publicly humiliate himself by fluffing lines, getting unsteady on his feet and generally deteriorating on a week by week basis on live TV.
We would all rather remember him at his best, and not as the shadow of his former glory he appears to be turning into.
I feel a blanket dismissal of all criticisms of Brucie poor presenting style as ageism is truly a very lazy and condescending.
The viewers love Sir Bruce, it only happens here.
This was caused by him dithering, fluffing his lines and 'ad libbing'.
This isn't so crucial now we have fewer contestants but at the beginning I would really have like to have the judges explain why they were about to give the scores they did.
That is the idea of the show rather than a stand up show with a bit of dance.