To put this in perspective, this is the equivalent of Johnny Carson dying.
Both the BBC News and Sky News rolling news channels immediately dropped
coverage of Barcelona and went to rolling coverage of his death when this
was announced (Note BBC World News didn't as he's a quintessentially
British
Sir Bruce Forsyth worked his way up in the world of the British music hall
as a song-and-dance man with some jokes, but didn't get a lucky break until
1958, when he was hired to fill in for two weeks as host of the UK's
Sullivan show equivalent "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" on ITV.
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