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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #63 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:03 BST (UK) »
Thoroughly enjoyed it.  Wouldn't have known about it but for RC :D

Very moving at the end when he finds there is no headstone and decides to commission one

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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #64 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:04 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Windsor87 on Monday 19 July 10 21:43 BST (UK)
If you didn't watch this because you don't like Bruce Forsyth, you've missed a treat.  :D

I couldn't agree more. This episode along with Kim Cattrall's I think are the best that have been shown. It really was heartbreaking stuff and it was a nice touch that Bruce himself was going to pay for the headstone.
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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #65 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:06 BST (UK) »
Excellent , I found it more interesting than some others, as Bruce was following one particular family mystery.

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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #66 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:07 BST (UK) »
I haven't checked back on the thread ... but did no-one check where the man was in 1901, in UK ??   


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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #67 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:08 BST (UK) »
Great episode.  One of the best ones I`ve seen.

Hope the rest of the series is as good.
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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #68 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:09 BST (UK) »
I just saw it. I have always like Brucie. Good to see a more serious side to him. As the narrator said at the beginning he was playing a completely different generation game.

His ancestor JF Johnson was a right, well...horrible man shall I say. Leaving his first wife and then later his bit on the side while swanning back and forth from America to England.
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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #69 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:09 BST (UK) »
He didn't say "Nice to see you, to see you nice"   ;D

This, for me, was one of the best ones ever.  How similar our families were. My Grt. Grandfather abandoned three  families and was a bigamist.
What a sad ending to Bruce's ancestor. So pleased that he is having a grave stone put there.
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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #70 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:10 BST (UK) »
I just managed to see the last half hour but will try to pick it up later in the week

Bruce we know the feeling when we go to a grave and there is no head stone

If I was ever to win the lottery most of it would go on headstones for those poor relatives who could not afford one for their loved ones

I enjoyed what I did see
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Re: Who Do You Think You Are 8 - Bruce Forsyth
« Reply #71 on: Monday 19 July 10 22:12 BST (UK) »
  :) Brilliant episode of WDYTYA 8. Thank goodness we see the return of normal programmes.Did not like the contrived US versions.Bruce's story was amazing.
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