It's the Brucie and Brillo show

Five years after he resurrected his presenting career by hosting Have I Got News For You?, Bruce Forsyth is about to add another unlikely TV credit to his CV. Andrew Neil's BBC1 politics show, This Week, no less. The Strictly Come Dancing host, you see, is big on politics. So big, in fact, that he tapes prime minister's question time. "At times it's pure variety, pure vaudeville, it's all the people I used to work with, Frankie Howerd and Les Dawson," Forsyth tells this week's Radio Times. "Last week I forgot and I was furious for the rest of the day. I rang them to ask for a tape, but when I said my name the woman who answered thought it was a crank call. Then they realised it really was me." Hence Brucie's appearance on This Week, when viewers will get two bizarre and scarcely credible haircuts for the price of one.