Just found this on Huffington Post today ...

Bruce to quit Strictly after this series

Please, please let it be true!

Let's hope so...........

I too so hope he goes - I don't mind him too much until the final, when he ushers everyone off stage and spoils the moment in the process. Then I remember why I dislike him. I think they should just leave Tess and Claudia to present who, IMO, work much better together.

Oh I hope so...

I hope so, too. It would be sensible IMO.

Please, please, please, please let it be true.

But that's just Ronnie Corbett's opinion. I doubt if he's made his mind up if he'd want to go on. I'm sure that next year his ego will tell him he can still do it and it will up to the BBC to decide if they want their presenter barely able to put one foot in front of the other, unable to follow instructions, trying to tell "jokes" which everyone's heard many times before, unable to string a coherent sentence together, and keep having to tell Tess to cut him short to stop him rambling.

But on thinking about it a bit more, maybe he has decided that this will be his last series, in which case we can look forward to an already planned over-the-top "Haven't I been wonderful?" final show to the series. Will he take the limelight from the winners, when he objected that others might do so when he yelled "Back off! Back off!" Then, of course, there'll be tribute shows from sycophants whose careers are flagging a bit, but which we can fortunately avoid.

Didn't Ronnie said something similar last year? I'll believe it when I see it!

Hmm, not sure how true this is, sadly. Just sounds like Ronnie Corbett giving his opinion. The comments are very telling though, most of them are anti-BF. So not just on here that people are calling for him to do the decent thing and stand down.

I too would love this to be true, but I'm always suspicious of these sort of articles which are just based (very loosely based at that I would guess) on a third party opinion. If Bruce himself had said it, it might be different.

I just can't believe it.

hopefully next Thursday he'll decide to quit.

Quite.
Unlike others on this thread, I like Brucie, for me, he's a very integral part of the show - he get's blamed for poor jokes, but who is writing them?
As far as this report is concerned, I can't help feeling that someone at the Beeb is attempting to do a 'Simon Cowell', by putting out stories like this in order to generate publicity & discussion. I don't think SCD needs these tactics, I feel sure it will beat X Factor in the ratings - it is so boring now, I don't bother watching, and wouldn't make any difference even if the times didn't clash. Fake Factor is off my watching list.

If and when it happens I will believe it. Bruce should really have gone at the end of series 9 as the cracks were clearly showing even then.

As for his jokes, a bad joke can be very funny when the timing and delivery is great. Sadly Bruce's joke delivery has lost all timing.

If you look at the credits at the end, you'll see that the culprit is Bruce himself!

Well if Bruce finds it "hard going" I'd suggest it ain't as hard as some of the viewers have found his contribution over the last few seasons.

If this is true, I'd suggest that he's been given "The Gypsy's Warning" by the BBC. Better to go of his own volition than be sacked for incompetence.

But there again, maybe this is just a bit of "spin" put out and he's hoping that there will be so much public support for him, he'll change his mind.

Rather Brucie than Vernon whatshisface!

Rather Graham (and I don't particular like him) than Brucie or Vernon whathisname!

I'd be amused if Bruce left and Lisa Riley was given his job, just to see this forum implode.

I hope NOT.
I know that I do my fair share of complaining about him but It wouldn't be the same without him imo .
He is like this old uncle or relative that you have in your family that annoys you most of the time but that you still like at the end of the day

eye eye , that would be FUN FUN FUN !!!!

But Edy you didn't grow up with him. He's been on the telly all my life and he's been irritating me since 1973!

Awww but I will still miss him if he leaves next year

Although Im sure that a lot of people will throw a party here next year IF this turns out to be true.

Its weird I watch the show and complain every year about how much he is annoying ; talk over the judges, can be a bit rude at times, cant read auto-cues really well nowadays but I still don't want him to leave lol.

Oh dear, NO.....shudders at the thought.

Yes, he writes his own jokes. He said in interview that the only time he and his wife argue is when he has to explain a joke to her when she doesn't think is funny.

Perhaps someone should explain to him that if you have to explain a joke it ISN'T funny.

surprised thought he had another 20 years left in him