Strictly host's brutal swipe at rival show with claims it had 'scripted rows'

The precocious Sir Bruce Forsyth, who fronted Strictly Come Dancing, appeared to marque a swipe astatine the X Factor during an unearthed interrogation wherever helium claimed the amusement had 'scripted rows'

The precocious Sir Bruce Forsyth, erstwhile big of Strictly Come Dancing, erstwhile seemed to instrumentality a swipe astatine TV rival the X Factor, suggesting the singing contention had "scripted rows". In a 2011 interrogation with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, erstwhile asked if The X Factor was 'struggling', helium responded: "Well, I deliberation it is struggling much successful the press, than I deliberation successful thing else. There is simply a magnitude of clip that benignant of amusement ]can last]."

While promoting an medium of his favourite songs, Bruce added: "Although ours is simply a world show, we bash person radical getting up and doing something, we person got beauteous euphony going on, large singers, we person drama from the judges, determination is (also) drama from me. So it has different things to offer, not conscionable vocalist aft vocalist aft vocalist and judges making up rows betwixt themselves... scripted, I think. I wouldn’t similar to accidental it is connected its past legs arsenic I deliberation they volition bash different mates of bid of it." However, as reported by OK!, helium aboriginal scolded the interviewer for trying to coax him into saying "something truly bad" astir his competitor, "which I didn't".

The X Factor was axed successful July 2021 with ITV confirming nary plans for a caller series, however, Strictly Come Dancing - present fronted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman - continues to predominate Saturday nighttime viewing. But conscionable earlier this year, Simon Cowell, the mastermind down The X Factor, spilled the beans connected his hopes to revive the iconic endowment show. He admitted that a comeback would mean shaking things up a bit.

The amusement was erstwhile a titan of telly, pulling successful a whopping 14 cardinal viewers astatine its height. However, arsenic the years rolled by, the numbers started to driblet off. But Simon's got his sights acceptable connected bringing the ITV deed backmost to its heyday. Stars similar Leona Lewis, Leon Jackson, and James Arthur became large names acknowledgment to The X Factor.

It each kicked disconnected with judges Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne, and Simon Cowell giving their verdicts successful a cosy room, which yet escalated to monolithic arena auditions and a rotating roster of impermanent judges. Simon believes the amusement mislaid its mode by straying from its roots. He antecedently told OK! : "I'm not definite erstwhile but it beryllium large to person it back. I deliberation it would beryllium taken backmost to basics. When we archetypal started, it was beauteous uncomplicated, but implicit the years, excessively galore elements were added; it mislaid its individuality somewhere."

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