... if the results show is filmed on the Saturday night, why is it Bruce no longer does the results show?

I could understand if it was live on the Sunday and Bruce would rather not do two nights but if it's on the Saturday...

Anyone know?

You have to suspend your disbelief, a bit like how Widdy's bra suspended it's belief in gravity.

Of course the results show is filmed on the Saturday...

Actually Bruce's song was recorded (just after Westlife) before the live show even started.

He's releasing an album. Im somewhat shocked too.

Not so much a release as a terrified run for cover

Wouldn't you just know it. Brucie plugging his new CD on the show.

There was an advert for it between Downton tonight. It should go straight to the bargain bin. Why anyone would buy it I can't imagine..

I am amazed that someone in the right mind thought it was a good idea to release a CD of Bruce singing......who the heck would buy it....I find it bizarre....surely even his most ardant fan isnt a fan of his singing.......It was even advertised in one of the ITV's most popular programmes so must have cost a fortune for the advert....I am at a loss.

There was an advert for it on the TV tonight. I ran out of the room screaming. I am now in therapy and require gallons of mind bleach. I may have nightmares tonight.

Bruce cannot last the whole day compèring the show; His energy runs out and he needs a sit down. This was his decision last year not to host the results show;

When Alesha first joined the show as judge, she really wanted to release a new single on Striclty, but Bruce put his size 14 feet down and refused point blank.

So how come he's promoting his own album tonight?

shame on you BBC for being so partisan.

I think it's a "goodbye" album Jan!

I did think, with the release of this, and him singing and dancing "last night" that it might be his last show and that HE has decided to go!

the rights and wrongs of all that will no doubt be debated if it is in fact the case, but that's how it made me think when I saw it.

Except that he didn't, there was no reference to any new CD, no reference to the song. Just the performance.

Unless I missed something?

Well no you cant do that on the BBC but didnt you think it was slightly odd to suddenly have Bruce singing ....it was very random really.....he usually only does that in the final....a lot of us watching were thinking whats behind this it cant be this random surely.....lo and behold in the middle of Downton Abbey an advert for Brucies new CD....hardly a coincidence really that he sings on stricty the same night his CD is advertised.

I was staggered by Bruce's performance. He was really good.
Many singers can no longer sing well at his age but he did wonderfully and I really enjoyed it.

Why let facts interfere with a good conspiracy theory!

Only more than a coincidence if you were watching DA as well (and don't skip the adverts). Otherwise, many are likely to be none the wiser (as I was, not being a DA viewer) - it would have bee a just another song.

Because to some people - probably the older end of the audience - he is still a consumate entertainer. My mum, who's in her late 60s, grew up watching him and won't hear a bad word said against him. In fact, that's an idea for her Christmas list!

Besides, given a choice between repeating Brucie's performance and Westlife's? Well, I'd go for Brucie every time!

That results show was actually filmed last February.

Was that before or after they recorded this years' Christmas special?

You made my tea come out my nose! Thanks!

Alesha did plug her new single the year she joined Strictly as a judge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Epp3CeA1A

If some thought Bruce was good on Saturday night, it might be because that these days there ain't much of quality live singing on the TV, with which to compare.

I thought he had trouble holding a lot of notes during the early part of the song, probably partly due to nerves.
Play it back on i>Player and check for yourself.
It reminded me a bit of the wavery voice of Clive Dunn in Dad's Army, who at the time, was just playing an old man.
The whole, was a bit embarrassing, in my opinion. I can't see anyone rushing out to buy his CD.
But his standard of singing, isn't up now to the quality of the band singers and I've never thought it was. He was always a good all-round entertainer/presenter, with comedy, dance, singing and a bit of "average" piano playing, an accomplishment in itself, but he never really excelled at any, musically.
Much the same as the late Roy Castle.
To use Strictly as an opportunity to plug a CD, (no other reason for it this week) is a bit of an insult.

I hope he plays back this recording and appreciates that it really is time to stop singing live. It was much the same with Sinatra, (although in a different league) the best male popular music singer of his time, but he gave some poor live performances and made some really bad recordings towards the end of his life which did his reputation no good at all.
It's the same with us all, "the older we get, the better we used to be."

I don't know why he bothers, he can't need the money, the answer may be the way he tried to milk the applause at the end, the audience encouraged by a likely out of shot studio manager.
He just craves the attention.

Talk about the devil and the deep blue sea - I FF'ed both performances.

Hmm..

"Another song?"

I was going to post this without checking.

"I bet the song he sang, 'Young and Foolish' is on the CD."

Guess what?