Forsyth: 'I feel like a 30-year-old'

Bruce Forsyth has claimed that he still feels like a 30-year-old when he's working on TV.

The Strictly Come Dancing host dismissed rumours that he is planning to retire, insisting that he still loves show business.

"Even though I'm 81 when I walk on to a studio floor, I feel 30," he said at the Royal Television Society [RTS] awards yesterday.

"People have been asking if I'm going to retire for the last 10 or 15 years. It's getting to be an old question - I'm nearly as old as the question!

"I'll know when I've had enough and probably the audience will know when I've had enough as well. When it happens, I'm ready for it."

Forsyth picked up the lifetime achievement gong at the ceremony in London.

"Thanks to legendary catchphrases, one or two glamorous assistants and an irrepressible energy to delight whatever audience he's put in front of, he is one of the few stars every generation of a British family will know and love," said the RTS judges.