Fiona Bruce Biography

Fiona Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader, and television presenter who was born on 25 April 1964 in Singapore. She is working as a presenter for BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Question Time.

She has two senior siblings. She was taught at Gayton Primary School in Wirral, the International School of Milan, and afterward from the age of 14 until 18 went to Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in New Cross, London.

During the last time frame, she demonstrated for the narratives in the teen young ladies’ magazine Jackie. Bruce read French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford.

During this period, she was momentarily a troublemaker, singing in musical crews and, at a certain point, shading her hair blue for multi-week. She went to the University of London Institute in Paris.

Fiona Bruce BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Question Time

Subsequent to turning into an associate maker on Panorama, she rolled out the improvement to detailing in 1992 on Breakfast News. She at that point moved to BBC South East, showing up as an infrequent moderator and correspondent on Newsroom South East and a week by week current undertakings program, First Sight.

From 1994 to 1995, she was a columnist on the BBC2 current undertakings program Public Eye. She at that point announced for Panorama and Newsnight. In 1999, as a feature of a significant relaunch of the BBC’s news yield, Bruce was named optional moderator of the BBC Six O’Clock News.

She introduced the program as a cover for the principal moderator Huw Edwards, just as routinely on Fridays until a moderator reshuffle in January 2003 to concur with the retirement of Michael Buerk and the move of Peter Sissons to the BBC News channel.

The two Edwards and Bruce moved to the BBC Ten O’Clock News and keep on introducing the program. Bruce was the primary female moderator of the announcement. In 2007, Bruce got back to introducing the BBC News at Six.

Following an eleven-year residency, she ventured down in January 2019. From 2003 to 2007, Bruce introduced and revealed in the BBC One current undertakings arrangement, Real Story. After the homicide of Jill Dando, Bruce assumed control over the situation of co-moderator on Crimewatch close by Nick Ross, until both were supplanted by Kirsty Young towards the finish of 2007.

In 2001, Bruce turned into the primary female moderator to be important for the BBC general political race results program. In 2006, following a legal dispute whereby British Airways mentioned that a Christian representative disguises her cross since it encroached the carrier’s clothing regulation, the BBC revealed it had a few worries over the way that Bruce frequently wore a cross neckband, despite the fact that she was not restricted from doing as such.

On 10 January 2019 Bruce, as the principal female host, succeeded long-term have David Dimbleby on the BBC’s discussion program Question Time. Her residency as the host was very quickly entangled in the discussion, and in May 2020, Bruce expressed “QT is, without question, the hardest occupation I’ve at any point done.”

In September 1998 Bruce turned into the moderator for BBC Two’s Antiques Show, which was in its fourth arrangement. She introduced it for a further two arrangement, showing her advantage in introducing antique projects almost 10 years prior to introducing Antiques Roadshow.

On 22 June 2007, it was reported that Bruce was to supplant the resigning Michael Aspel as moderator of Antiques Roadshow the accompanying spring; this at first caused some debate. Nonetheless, normal viewership expanded during Bruce’s first year as a moderator.

In 2007, Bruce composed and introduced a BBC narrative about Cherie Blair as Tony Blair left office. Bruce likewise incidentally introduced uncommon releases of The Money Program. In one, she profiled the business visionary Alan Sugar.

She said of the experience: “It was somewhat similar to being before a hairdryer close by other people. He’s not in reverse in approaching in his assessments.”

During the narrative, Bruce – who has in every case freely distinguished herself as a women’s activist – tested Sugar’s view that ladies ought to straightforwardly unveil their childcare responsibilities to a likely business.

Her point was that if men were not needed to pronounce their capacity to satisfy the needs of their work, it was wrong that ladies ought to do as such. Victoria: A Royal Love Story (2010) is a BBC narrative, composed and introduced by Bruce, outlining the tale of the relationship between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and reporting the assortment of canvases, figures, and adornments they gave one another.

Since 2011 she has co-facilitated the BBC TV arrangement Fake or Fortune? close by Philip Mold, which analyzes the way toward setting up the genuineness of masterpieces, including the utilization of present-day strategies.

In 2011 Bruce composed and introduced The Queen’s Palaces, a three-section BBC narrative recounting the tale of Queen Elizabeth II’s three authority homes, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and Holyrood Palace.

In 2012, Bruce composed and introduced a BBC narrative about Leonardo da Vinci. In 2015 and 2016 she introduced the BBC Four test program Hive Minds.

In 2017 it was accounted for that Bruce was paid somewhere in the range of £350,000 and £400,000 as a BBC moderator. In mid-2019 she conceded not monitoring her compensation, which for 2018 supposedly was £170,000, a number that does exclude her profit from Antiques Roadshow.

Fiona Bruce Parody and Humour

Bruce was included in a scene of Top Gear (arrangement 10, scene 3), offering a lift to one of its moderators, Jeremy Clarkson, and afterward pushing him out (as he was stuck in a Peel P50, which has no opposite stuff).

As she left, Clarkson remarked, without her insight until the program was circulated, “She has a serious pleasant base… I said that for all to hear, didn’t I?”

Bruce got back to Top Gear in the following (arrangement 11, scene 4), close by individual newsreader Kate Silverton, for the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car include. As a rebound to the “pleasant base” remark, she slapped Jeremy’s and announced that it “needs a touch of work”.

From that point forward, she has additionally incidentally subbed for a holidaying Clarkson in his Sunday Times vehicle audit segment, which she alluded to as definitive retribution: “roosting my base – decent or something else – on his fix.”

In the BBC Two form of the sarcastic impressions shows Dead Ringers, Bruce is spoofed by Jan Ravens, who savagely misrepresents her peculiarities through sexual insinuation.

For instance, “Hi, my name is Fiona Bruce sitting on the most fortunate seat in Britain”, and “Hi, I’m Fiona Bruce; don’t contact what you can’t manage.” She showed up in a flippant BBC HD advert in 2008, including the Antiques Roadshow show where she drove a vehicle through a divider, prior to running towards a falling container; the vehicle detonates as she leaps to save the jar from smashing.

A less genuine side of Bruce has been appeared in the BBC’s Children in Need fundraiser for quite a while, in the normal segment where newsreaders break out from behind their work areas to participate in a routine number.

Having a preferred performing voice over a large portion of her associates, her chance in the 2007 exhibition, as Velma Kelly – with a version of “All That Jazz” – so intrigued the creators of the recovery creation of Chicago that they welcomed her to the London execution of the tenth commemoration occasion, where she showed up in front of an audience in a procession of Velmas.

Alluding to Jeremy Clarkson’s reverence of her – he once depicted her as “tortuously dazzling” – she commented, “In my twenties, I was harmfully restricted to anybody remarking on my appearance, in case it comes to the detriment of my capacity.

Be that as it may, it is anything but an issue for me now. On the off chance that Jeremy Clarkson gives me a pat on the back, at that point fine, how decent, ‘Says thanks to Jeremy’.”

Fiona Bruce Charity

Bruce is a privileged VP of optical foundation Vision Aid Overseas (VAO), close by individual newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald. In February 2005, Bruce did the voice-over for VAO’s Lifeline Appeal.

In 2007 Bruce dispatched VAO’s Annual Review. Soon thereafter she was one of nine noticeable ladies to partake in the What’s it going to take? crusade for the foundation Women’s Aid.

In 2009, the NSPCC accepted her into its Hall of Fame out of appreciation for her proceeded with work for their sake.

In tolerating the honor, she said, “crafted by the NSPCC and ChildLine is frantically significant and I do little contrasted with what should be finished. However, I’m extremely regarded to be remembered for the Hall of Fame.”

Fiona Bruce Age

Bruce was born in Singapore on 25 April 1964, to an English mother and a Scottish father. She is 56 years old as of 2020.

Fiona Bruce Husband

She is married to Nigel Sharrocks an the two met when Nigel was director of the advertising agency where Bruce worked. He is now a non-executive chairman of Digital Cinema Media.

They got married in July 1994 in Islington. They are blessed with two children; son Sam (born January 1998) and daughter Mia Rose (born November 2001).

Fiona Bruce Height

She is 5ft 9 (175.3 cm) tall.

Fiona Bruce Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.

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