Fiona Bruce Bio | Wiki
Fiona Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader, and television presenter. In 1989, she joined the BBC as a researcher for Panorama and has since become the first female newsreader on the BBC News at Ten.
Fiona serves as a presenter of many flagship programs for the corporation, including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow, and Fake or Fortune? Since January 10, 2019, she has been the presenter of the BBC One television program Question Time.
After leaving university, Fiona joined a management consulting firm for a year but found the experience depressingly dull. Following this, she worked at a number of advertising agencies including Boase Massimi Pollitt. She then went on to meet Tim Gardam, at that time the editor of the BBC’s Panorama, at a wedding, and in 1989 he gave her a job as a researcher on the program.
Fiona Bruce Age
Fiona was born on April 25, 1964, in Singapore. She is 58 years old.
Fiona Bruce Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.62 m).
Fiona Bruce Family
She was born and raised in Singapore by an English mother and a Scottish father Rosemary Bruce and John Bruce. Fiona’s father d worked his way up from being a postboy to becoming the regional managing director of Unilever.
Before that, the Bruce family had lived for several generations in the fishing village of Hopeman. Fiona has two elder brothers Neil and Alasdair. Her great-grandfather, Frederick Crouch, died in fighting on the Western Front in World War.
Fiona Bruce Husband
Fiona is married to her husband Nigel Sharrocks. The couple celebrated their wedding in July 1994 in Islington. They met when Nigel was director of the advertising agency where Fiona worked. Nigel is the non-executive chairman of Digital Cinema Media. The couple has two children, a son Sam Sharrocks and a daughter Mia Sharrocks.
Fiona Bruce Education
She attended Gayton Primary School in Wirral and the International School of Milan. From the age of 14 until 18, Fiona attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in New Cross, London. During the latter period, she modeled for the stories in the teenage girls’ magazine Jackie.
She read French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford. During this period, Fiona was briefly a punk, singing in rock bands and, at one point, coloring her hair blue for one week. She attended the University of London Institute in Paris.
Fiona Bruce Antiques Roadshow
In September 1998 Fiona became the presenter for BBC Two’s Antiques Show, which was in its fourth series. She presented it for a further two series, showing her interest in presenting antique programs nearly a decade before presenting Antiques Roadshow.
On 22 June 2007, it was announced that Fiona was to replace the retiring Michael Aspel as presenter of Antiques Roadshow the following spring, this initially caused some controversy. However, average viewership increased during Fiona’s first year as a presenter.
In 2017 it was reported that she was paid between £350,000 and £400,000 as a BBC presenter. In early 2019 she stated that she did not keep track of her salary which for 2018 was reported £170,000, an amount that did not include her earnings from Antiques Roadshow.
Fiona Bruce BBC
After becoming an assistant producer on Panorama, Fiona made the change to reporting in 1992 on Breakfast News. She then moved to BBC South East, appearing as an occasional presenter and reporter on Newsroom South East. From 1994 to 1995, she served as a reporter on the BBC2 current affairs program Public Eye. She then reported for Panorama and Newsnight.
In 1999, as part of a major relaunch of the BBC’s news output, Fiona was named secondary presenter of the BBC Six O’Clock News. She presented the program as a cover for the main presenter Huw Edwards, as well as regularly on Fridays until a presenter reshuffle in January 2003.
Both Edwards and Fiona moved to the BBC Ten O’Clock News and continue to present the program. She was the first female presenter of the bulletin. In 2007, Fiona returned to presenting the BBC News at Six. After an eleven-year tenure, she stepped down in January 2019.
Fiona Bruce Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Fion’s estimated net worth is $976,455.