The online version of the article carries the headline: Bruce to leave Strictly. It explains:
Strictly legend Sir Bruce Forsyth may be set to leave the show.
Brucie, 84, told us he has not signed a new contract for next year’s series.
The Star's sister paper, the Sunday Express, has a slightly different take on what Bruce has said in the same interview. Their front page says 'Brucie: I'm not going to retire' and the story makes clear no decision has been made about Strictly:
The online version, which runs under the headline 'Nice to carry on, to carry on nice Bruce Forsyth' says:
Sir Bruce Forsyth has again ruled out retirement.
Despite suggestions that he may bow out of Strictly Come Dancing this year, the showbusiness legend, 84, says he isn’t planning to leave the stage just yet...
Forsyth, who took a week off from Strictly this year, will decide whether to present the next series when he returns in April from a winter in Puerto Rico, his wife Wilnelia’s home country.
He said: “Who knows how long I will go on for? I could turn around tomorrow and say, ‘I’ve had enough’. It could be in a couple of weeks’ time.
“But at the moment, and with what we’ve been doing, which is to assess each year before we start, I’m certainly not going to retire.
“That’s the last thing on my mind, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing this show at the Albert Hall next year. Retiring is completely out of my mind.”
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Can't see a disagreement. One paper says that the Strictly contract isn't going to be renewed. The other says that he isn't retiring, and is booked for a one-man show.
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Apologies - one of the quotes from the Sunday Express story, which reveals he won't make a decision on Strictly until April, was left out when I was copying and pasting the text. I have now corrected that. The Sunday Express article makes clear he has reassessed the Strictly job every year for the past four or five, so there appears to be no justification for the Star's headline based on what he has said.
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