Bruce’s got talent

IT was, perhaps, only a matter of time before the opportunity of a quick road to fame and wealth provided by television reality shows resulted in the exploitation of children.
By The Newsroom
Published 31st May 2013, 09:43 BST

It is, however, a trend that has been swiftly denounced by Sir Bruce Forsyth, a man who surely knows a thing or two about talent and the way to win lasting popularity in showbusiness.

It requires little in the way of entertainment experience, however, to know that a child bursting into tears on prime-time TV is no sort of entertainment whatsoever. Hardly surprising, then, that Sir Bruce has much support in his much publicised battle with Simon Cowell over the calculated use of children in the latter’s Britain’s Got Talent TV series.

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And before Mr Cowell takes the war of words any further, he should pause to consider Sir Bruce’s plans to perform a one-man song-and-dance show at this year’s Glastonbury Festival and ask himself how many of his so-called talented acts could pull off such a feat at the age of 25, never mind 85.