‘Dead’ knight’s haunting role
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By Tony Ortzen
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COMPARED to many of today’s totally talentless so-called celebrities and comedians, Sir Bruce Forsyth was a real star.
An incredibly gifted dancer, he was extremely versatile, could play the piano superbly, host TV shows with real panache and bubbled over with personality.
Now it’s been claimed that his ghost is haunting the theatre where his ashes are buried after actors and staff at the London Palladium are convinced there is a “friendly” presence at the world-famous venue..
Incidentally, medium Doris Stokes packed the Palladium on several occasions. Her demonstrations there always sold out days in advance.
According to an unnamed source, “Some strange things have been happening at the theatre and everyone’s certain it’s him.
“The Palladium was always Bruce’s kingdom and his presence there is felt now more than ever.
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SIR BRUCE FORSYTH: “I do believe in spirits and the supernatural.”
Here Sir Bruce is seen arriving for the “Strictly Come Dancing”
2012 launch at the BBC’s Television Centre in London.
(Photo: Henry Harris/Featureflash Photo Agency)
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“Weird things keep happening, like people’s scripts and belongings being moved and turning up in strange places.
“Lights will dim when people are trying to read their lines in rehearsals and stuff like that.
“It’s nothing sinister, it’s like Bruce is playing practical jokes on everyone, just like when he was alive.
“Actors are very superstitious people. Since Bruce’s ashes were buried there, all the stars have been very mindful that he could be watching over them.
“Whatever is causing these strange goings-on, it’s nice to think that Bruce is still around.”
Sir Bruce passed on three years ago aged 89 after a long battle with illness. His ashes were scattered under the Palladium’s boards at a private ceremony attended by his wife, Lady Wilnelia, and his six children.
A plaque on the wall states that he was “without question the UK’s greatest entertainer. He rests in peace within the sound of music, laughter and dancing... exactly where he would want to be.”
The star’s 70-year career began at the theatre where for many years he presented Sunday Night at the Palladium.
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The London Palladium.
(Photo: John Winfield)
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In a final interview, Sir Bruce said he would “go peacefully” and spoke about his belief in the spirit world.
“I think I’m a semi-Spiritualist in a way,” he stated. “I do believe in spirits and the supernatural.
“I can’t believe that, with all the things that go on, you don’t come back in another life or that your spirit doesn’t go somewhere else or inspires somebody else. It doesn’t seem possible.”
Sir Bruce added: “The thought of death would have scared me more twenty years ago, but not now.
“I look back at all that has happened to me and realise how lucky I’ve been. I appreciate everything that’s happened, especially when it came to the knighthood. That was an achievement.
“I wouldn’t turn round and go, ‘Oh why? Why now? I’ve still got so much to do,’ because I’ve done so many things and been in so many successful things.
“How many people in show business have had three of the top shows ever on television? If you have one in a lifetime you are lucky.
“But nothing was bigger than Sunday Night at the London Palladium; nothing was bigger than The Generation Game; nothing was bigger than Strictly Come Dancing. How fortunate I am to have had this life.”
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