Originally Posted by sueh21:
“Exactly,he is a consummate entertainer and has the ability (which Tess is very obviously lacking) to think on his feet and ad lib. Can you imagine how Tess would have handled Mark and Karen's microphone disaster,panicked rabbit in the headlights look while waiting for emergency instructions in her earpiece.
Think she was well and truly shown up by Claudia last night IMO.”
Why people think Brucie was so brilliant handling that really confuses me.
The mics got tangled and Karen & Mark stopped dancing.
The sound lady ran on and sorted out the problem then turned to run off
Bruce grabbed her and tried to dance with her stopping her making her escape as unobtrusively as possible.
He then had to wait for the producers to tell him via a floor manager that K&M could restart and that took longer than it needed to because he won't wear an earpiece.
Bruce had no need to go anywhere near the sound lady - and had he been wearing an earpiece the control desk could have communicated directly with him rather than through a floor manager.
I think Tess (or anyone else for that matter) would have handled it just as well.
Tess did a brilliant job on Saturday dealing with the absence of Bruce, the injury problems which resulted in timing issues and having to chat to Ronnie C in the audience to justify his presence. In fact she showed that the show can run perfectly well without him and that she herself is a very capable presenter. What a shame the PTB felt we needed to have the likes of Ronnie C there rather than just leaving the ladies to get on with it!