You know, after considerable thought I can honestly say that the only outstanding moment was when he announced his retirement.


Whatever he did in his career -, and he did plenty, nothing really lasted. Every performance, every game show and so on was just as easily forgotten as last weeks Sunday dinner.

Favourite Sir Bruce moment?

When he announced his departure.

I'm relieved that he has decided to go, but goodness this forum is a sour place these days.

Anyway, one moment that made me really explode because it certainly wasn't scripted, and delivered in a beautifully sardonic way was after Ricky Whittle's rather disastrous rock and roll the week of his arrest in Liverpool, and after all the judges slatings, Bruce said something like 'And of course you had rather less time to practice this week.'

I agree

Every time he stepped out of persona to be kind to the contestants and dancers. I'd started to worry about him by the end so I'm glad he's decided to retire but he didn't annoy me as much as he did other folk and there were many times he made me smile.

Dancing with Holly is my stand out moment too.

(Off topic, he was on the bbc4 documentary about Nat King Cole and showed genuine appreciation for the guy. Bruce has been around forever. How many singers these days could take ten minutes to come up with an arrangement for a live performance with some one like Nat? That's and in my book.)

Most definately !

My favourite Bruce moment was about 7 or 8 years ago when The Killers had some really big hits; Bruce was talking about the celebrities and said "are they human? ...(pause)... or are they dancers?" It was such an unexpected comment - everybody was in stitches.
The autocue was obviously written by someone else and you could tell that he didn't get the joke himself because he looked completely surprised at the audience's reaction!