Irish Daily Mirror

Nice to see.. some of you

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Given that Bruce Forsyth would have been 90 last month, Sir Bruce: A Celebratio­n last night was a lovely gesture by BBC1.

However, when Tess Daly closed the show by telling Brucie that she really hoped they’d done him proud I wouldn’t have blamed him if he’d been up there going, “Well, it would have been nice to see a few more stars paying tribute on stage rather than Skyping it in.”

He’d have been right. No disrespect to the likes of Shirley Bassey, Ball and Boe, Alexandra Burke, Jon Culshaw and the Strictly singers and dancers, but it would have been more of a show if Elton John, Ant and Dec, Jimmy Tarbuck, Russ Abbot and Bradley Walsh had performed at the Palladium.

We can only assume busy schedules could not be rejigged. To be fair, the video messages did at least contain some great anecdotes.

I particular­ly enjoyed Abbot recalling a party at Brucie’s house where he introduced his family “as if they were contestant­s”.

The biggest surprise was seeing Sarah Ferguson – I never knew the Duchess and Brucie were close.

I just hope the Strictly lot nabbed her and signed her up for the show.

The reboot of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy – known now as Queer Eye – is one of Netflix’s biggest successes.

The new episodes, the first since 2007, have helped the show rack up a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, along with high-profile fans including Jo Whiley, Nick Grimshaw and Sarah Millican.

The format remains but it has moved from New York to the US’S Deep South to reach out to more conservati­ve men.

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