Tess: Thanks for the good times, Brucie

TESS Daly has thanked Sir Bruce Forsyth for 10 years of happy memories as they hosted Strictly Come Dancing side by side.

She said: “Thank you, Brucie, for the good times.

“From the moment we met, Bruce and I did nothing but laugh our way through a decade of working together.”

Tess, 48, also shared a selfie of them both backstage two years ago on a Strictly special for Children In Need.

She wrote: “This is one of my favourite photos with Bruce. It was the last time we worked together.”

Tess said of the TV legend, who died on Friday at 89: “I grew up watching him on TV – then spent 10 years pinching myself that I was standing by his side in the studio.”