What if the coroners brought in verdicts of unlawful killings? Brucie could have gone down in history as an even bigger mass murderer than Harold Shipman.

Bruce can't open his mouth without making me cringe.

I can't watch the show live, I have to sky+ it so i can fast forward every time he's on.

The thing I find really annoying though is the fact he's a permanent presence when the contentants are being judged (I can't fast foreard that bit)

He always comes out with a "Wasn't that wonderful" type comment as they walk towards him, no matter how many balls ups they may have made in the dance that were obvious to all the rest of us.

Then he goes and sticks his oar in every time the judges make a comment. He never adds anything at all. He just wants to hear the judges say nice things all the time and doesn't know how to handle it when they don't.

The guy ruins the show for me; he is a cringe full stop.

Actually, he's not usually that coherent. It's usually "What about it? What about it?" WTF is that supposed to mean?

Why am I asking? It's BF after all.

This what annoys me.

I hate the way he says "Ohhhh dearrrr' whenever one of the judges say something negative. It sounds so patronising. Like the celebs are toddlers or something.

You dont hear Phillip Schofield doing that on Dancing on Ice, or Dermot O Leary doing it on The X Factor. He needs to know when to STFU!

Bruce is NOT SCD! He is The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right etc. All old hat since the 1970s and 80s! He is too old for today's audience.

For me - he just makes the whole show cringe-making & amateur - like an uncle making a terrible speech at a wedding.

I don't understand why he's still there.

I wondered if Bruce's comments are what threw Ali in her dance...

I hate to see him pawing all over tess and grabbing her - she's about 50 years younger than him, it looks so wrong!

I have to look from behind a cushion when Brucie comes down those stairs at the beginning and does that dreadful shuffly/shimmy towards Tess...my mum and I cannot BEAR that bit!!!!

Agreed. If SCD stand for Silly, Cringe-making and Dreadful.

Okay all you Bruce knockers; who should get his job then?

Imho there's only one person who can handle ad libbing like it's needed for this show, and that's Graham Norton. Not sure the BBC is in a position to afford him at the moment, as it's currently hair shirt time at the Corporation and he'd want a separate fee from what he gets for his own show plus the Lloyd Webber productions. This would be excessively large.

So who else do you suggest? Vernon Kay? Cringe! Terry Wogan? Too laid back and also past the sell-by date. "Anyone but Bruce" is a cop-out. Come on, let's hear it.

We're just laying some new floorboards, and have one plank of wood left - that would surely do a more professional job than Fumbling Forsyth, but my husband thinks that Basil Brush is due for a comeback.

I've wondered about some of the previous contestants, who seemed to enjoy the show, but are not so arrogant that they would think they ARE the show. People such as Austin Healey, Darren Gough and Jill Halfpenny come to mind, but I'm sure there must be lots of others. Their salaries would be less, and they would be there because they wanted to, not because they were hanging on hoping for a knighthood! (In view of his recent outpourings, he's well and truly blotted his copybook there, hasn't he? Doddery he most certainly is!)

I think Aled Jones would be a brilliant replacement for Bruce. BF is not SCD - I'm another who has to watch on V+, so that I can fast forward through Brucie's twaddle!

John Barrowman!!

*runs*

Yes, him.

That's a scene for the imagination to conjure with, Aled taking Tess in hand in the opening sequence.

Sooner or later John Barrowman would want his own song & dance section. :yawn: Thank God Bruce doesn't trust himself to do more than the odd shuffle these days.

Karen Hardy? She has a ready wit, and isn't afraid to crack the whip over naughty boys, as Bill Turnbull can testify.

Yeah, that bit last night when he said "It's time to meet the stars of our show" while holding Tess and snorted in a really dirty old man kind of way, that was awful.

Good idea.

I'd have said Anton before racism-gate - but I think he's scuppered his chances.

Paul O' Grady!

Oh god no!!!!

How about Eamon Holmes?

Get Philip Schofield over from ITV!!!

I like the Aled Jones suggestion.

...but then he couldnt do Dancing on Ice!

Schofield would be awful and there's enough campness on SCD already without Norton, Clary, or the dreadful Barrowman et al. If the latter or the wooden du Beke got the job many people would want the doddery Brucie back.

if only the lovely Chris Packham from Autumnwatch knew anything about dancing...!

Also, it doesnt HAVE to be a man....that way they could also get rid of Tess!