Everything about Fiona Bruce totally explained
Fiona Bruce (born
25 April 1964 in
Singapore) is a
British journalist and
television presenter. Since joining the
BBC in 1989, she's gone on to present many programmes for the corporation including the
BBC News at Ten,
Real Story and
Crimewatch UK, as well as appearing in programmes such as
Call My Bluff.
Biography
The daughter of a self-made man, who worked his way up from post boy to become
Managing Director of a division of
Unilever, and adoptee mother Rosemary. Bruce was born in
Singapore and first schooled at
St. George's British International School in
Rome, and then the sixth form of
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in
New Cross,
London. It was during this later period that she
modelled for the stories in the teenage girls' magazine
Jackie.
Bruce studied
French and
Italian at
Hertford College, Oxford, during which she was a self-confessed
punk, and for one week had blue hair.
Career
After leaving university, Bruce joined a management consultants for a year, and then an advertising agency for two:
She met the then editor of
Panorama Tim Gardam at a wedding, and pestered him until he gave her a job as a researcher at the BBC on the programme in 1989. After becoming assistant assistant producer on
Panorama, she made the change to presenting in 1992 as a reporter for
Breakfast News. She then moved to
BBC South East, appearing as an occasional presenter and reporter on
Newsroom South East. During this time she also appeared on some weekend main BBC News bulletins and reported for
Newsnight.
In 1999, as part of a major relaunch of the BBC's news output, Bruce was named secondary presenter of the
Six O'Clock News bulletin. She presented the programme as cover for main presenter
Huw Edwards as well as regularly on Fridays until a presenter reshuffle in January 2003 to coincide with the retirement of
Michael Buerk and the move of
Peter Sissons to the
BBC News channel. Both Edwards and Bruce moved to presenting the
BBC News at Ten and have presented the programme on their respective days since. By becoming presenter, she became the first woman to ever present the bulletin from launch in 2000.
Following the murder of
Jill Dando, Bruce took over the position of co-presenter on
Crimewatch UK alongside
Nick Ross, until both were replaced by
Kirsty Young towards the end of 2007. From December 2007 she's presented the Friday edition of the
BBC News (8pm summary), in addition to the
BBC News at Ten.
On
22 June 2007 it was announced that Bruce will replace
Michael Aspel when he steps down as presenter of the
Antiques Roadshow in Spring 2008. She appeared in a
BBC HD advert in
2008, featuring the same show, where she drove a car through a wall, before running towards a falling vase; the car explodes as she jumps to save the vase from crashing.
In the past, Bruce has also presented the
BBC Radio 2 Sunday morning show.
Bruce has also been featured in an episode of
Top Gear, which sees her sharing a lift with presenter of the show,
Jeremy Clarkson and then having to push him out (as he was stuck in his
Peel. Clarkson goes on to comment "She does have quite a nice bottom... Did I just say that out loud?"
Vision Aid Overseas
Bruce is an Honorary Vice President of optical charity Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) alongside
Trevor McDonald. In February 2005 Bruce did the voice over for VAO's Lifeline Appeal. In 2007 Bruce launched VAO's Annual Review.
Parody
Since the comedy programme
Dead Ringers transferred to TV from radio, Bruce has been parodied by
Jan Ravens, ruthlessly exaggerating her idiosyncratic
feline mannerisms through innuendo. For example, during the
2006 European heat wave, when a hosepipe ban was put into effect in parts of the UK, one of the lines was, "I'm Fiona Bruce. There's never a
hosepipe ban when I'm in the room." Bruce, who had featured in advertising campaigns for the feminist charity
Women's Aid, was accused of having an axe to grind on the issue of
domestic violence. Many, including Mr O'Connor felt she let her own personal view on domestic violence as an issue of gender take over the programme. There were also concerns that O'Connor had originally been invited to speak about CAFCA and the Family Courts, yet the program was changed to focus on domestic violence. Later, a BBC Committee investigating on behalf of the
BBC Governors, concluded that there were some weaknesses in the programme when considered against the BBC's journalistic values of Truth and Accuracy, Serving the Public Interest, Impartiality and Diversity of Opinion, Independence and Accountability.
Personal life
Bruce met her husband Nigel Sharrocks, who was then director of the advertising agency where she worked, The couple have two children, son Sam and daughter Mia
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