Fiona Bruce

At 60 years old, Fiona Bruce has this physical status:

Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is a British writer, newsreader, and television presenter.

She began with a stint as a researcher on Panorama in 1989 and has since gone on to become the first female newsreader on the BBC News at Ten as well as presenting many flagship programs for the corporation, including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow, and Fake or Fortune.

Since being the host of the BBC One television show Question Time since January 10, 2019.

Early life and education

Bruce was born on 25 April 1964 in what was then the State of Singapore, Malaysia, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who spent his entire career at Unilever, as a regional managing director. The Bruce family had lived in Hopeman, Scotland, for many generations before that. Bruce has two elder brothers. She attended Gayton Primary School in Wirral, the International School of Milan, and then attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross, London, from the age of 14 to 18. During the latter years, she appeared in the teenage girls' magazine Jackie.

Frederick Crouch, Bruce's great-grandfather, died fighting on the Western Front in World War I.

At Hertford College, Oxford, Bruce studied French and Italian. She was a punk, appearing in rock bands, and, at one point, blonding her hair for one week. She studied at the University of London Institute in Paris and is a fluent speaker of French and Italian.

Personal life

When Bruce was managing the advertising company where she worked, he met Nigel Sharrocks (born 1956). He is the non-executive chairman of Digital Cinema Media. They married in Islington, London, in July 1994. The couple have two children, one son born in January 1998 and the other in November 2001. Bruce found herself in the news again after her daughter's birth in 16 days. Bruce said in 2014 that she did not use social media as a result of the misogynistic abuse directed at female celebrities.

In 2010, she was named Female Rear of the Year and accepted it in person. The following year, she said that her acceptance of it had been "hypocritical" and that the award was "demeaning."

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Career

Bruce joined a management consulting firm for a year after leaving university but discovered the job was dull:

Boase Massimi Pollitt, the founder of a Boase Massimi Pollitt company (where she met her future husband, a company president), before that. She then met Tim Gardam – then-the editor of the BBC's Panorama – at a wedding, and then moved to London, where she worked as a researcher on the programme in 1989.

She moved to reporting on Breakfast News in 1992 after being an assistant producer on Panorama. She then migrated to BBC South East, where she appeared as an occasional host and reporter on Newsroom South East and a weekly current affairs show, First Sight. She served as a reporter on the BBC2 current affairs show Public Eye from 1994 to 1995. She appeared on Panorama and Newsnight later in the evening.

Bruce was named secondary presenter of the BBC Six O'Clock News in 1999, as part of a major overhaul of the BBC's news service. She appeared on the programme as a rep for Huw Edwards' principal host, as well as on Fridays, until a host reshuffle in January 2003 to coincide with Michael Buerk's retirement and Peter Sissons' move to the BBC News channel in January 2003.

Both Edwards and Bruce migrated to BBC Ten O'Clock News to host the show. Bruce was the first female host of the bulletin. In 2007, Bruce returned to Six News to host BBC News. She resigned in January 2019 after an eleven-year tenure.

Bruce appeared and reported in the BBC One current affairs series Real Story from 2003 to 2007.

Bruce took over as co-presenter on Crimewatch alongside Nick Ross after Jill Dando's assassination, until Kirsty Young replaced them at the end of 2007. Bruce became one of the BBC general election winners in 2001.

The BBC revealed that Bruce often wore a cross necklace in 2006, but she was not forbidden from doing so after a court hearing whereby British Airways requested that a Christian employee hide her cross because it violated the airline's dress code.

Bruce, the first full-time female host, debuted David Dimbleby on the BBC's debate show Question Time on Monday, January 10th. Bruce said in May 2020, "QT is without doubt the hardest work I've ever done."

Bruce joined BBC Two's Antiques Show in September 1998, which was the fourth series. She presented the Antiques Roadshow for a second time, demonstrating her passion for presenting antiques shows a decade before presenting Antiques Roadshow. Bruce was to replace retiring Michael Aspel as the host of Antiques Roadshow in the following spring, causing some controversies on June 22, 2007. However, average viewership increased during Bruce's first year as host.

As Tony Blair left office in 2007, Bruce produced and hosted a BBC documentary about Cherie Blair.

Bruce has also released special editions of The Money Programme. In one, she portrayed entrepreneur Alan Sugar. "It was a bit like being in front of a hair dryer at very close quarters," she recalled. He's not backwards in speaking out about his convictions. Bruce – who has always identified herself as a feminist – debunk Sugar's argument that women should openly disclose their childcare preferences to a prospective employer. Her argument was that if men were not expected to disclose their ability to satisfy the demands of their careers, it was not fair that women should do so.

Victoria: A Royal Love Story (2010) is a BBC documentary narrating Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's love affair and describing their gift of paintings, sculptures, and jewelry to each other, which was written and broadcast by Bruce.

Fake or Fortune, a BBC television show hosted by Karen Levy since 2011. With Philip Mould, the process of establishing the authenticity of works of art, as well as the use of modern techniques.

Bruce wrote and presented The Queen's Palaces, a three-part BBC documentary retelling Queen Elizabeth II's three official residences, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and Holyrood Palace in 2011. Bruce produced and directed a BBC documentary about Leonardo da Vinci in 2012.

Hive Minds, a British Four quiz show, appeared on television in 2015 and 2016.

Bruce was paid between £350,000 and £400,000 as a BBC presenter in 2017, according to the magazine. She said in early 2019 that she did not keep track of her work, although it did not include her income from Antiques Roadshow.

Bruce was starring in an episode of Top Gear (series 10, episode 3) and then having to drag him out (as he was trapped in a Peel P50 with no reverse gear). Clarkson remarked as she walked away, Clarkson said, "She has a nice bottom...

I said that out loud, didn't I?"

In a Reasonably Priced Car feature, Bruce returned to Top Gear in the upcoming series (series 11, episode 4). "Needs a little work," she slapped Jeremy's comment as a return to the "nice bottom" line. Since then, she has occasionally been in for a holidaying Clarkson in his Sunday Times car review column, which she described as the ultimate revenge: "perching my bottom – good or not on his patch."

Bruce is parodied by Jan Ravens, who adamantly exaggerates her demeanors through sexual innuendo in the BBC Two version of the satirical impressions show Dead Ringers. For example, "Hi, my name is Fiona Bruce, sitting on the best chair in the United Kingdom" and "Hello, I'm Fiona Bruce; don't worry about what you can't afford."

In a tongue-in-cheek BBC HD commercial in 2008, she rode a car through a wall before aiming for a falling vase; the car roars as she attempts to prevent the vase from crashing.

In the regular section where newsreaders break out from their desks to participate in a song and dance number, a less serious side of Bruce has been shown. Velma Kelly, who appeared on stage in a parade of Velma Kelly, was more able to sing better than most of her coworkers, her turn in the 2007 revival of Chicago, so impressed were the Chicago producers of the 10th anniversary gala, where she appeared on stage in a parade of Velmas.

She remarked, "I was virulently opposed to anyone commenting on my appearance in my twenties, lest it come at the expense of my fitness," referring to Jeremy Clarkson's adoration of her. However, it is not a problem for me right now. If Jeremy Clarkson gives me a compliment, how gracious is that.' Thanks Jeremy"

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