Fiona Bruce

Biography:

After becoming assistant producer on Panorama, she made the change to presenting in 1992 as a reporter for Breakfast News. She also appeared on the main news bulletins and reported for Newnight. From 1994-95 she was a reporter on the BBC2 current affairs programme Public Eye.

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.  Following this, Bruce moved to presenting News at Ten; by becoming presenter, she became the first woman to present the bulletin from it’s launch in 2000.

More recently, Bruce has once again taken up the role of Friday presenter and main relief presenter on the BBC's Six O'Clock News.

In 2006 in light of a court case whereby British Airways requested that a Christian employee conceal her cross because it infringed the airline's dress code, the BBC disclosed it had some concerns over the fact that Fiona Bruce often wore a cross necklace she was not banned from doing so.

In September 1998, she became the presenter for BBC2's The Antiques Show, which was in its fourth series. She presented it for a further two series, showing her interest in presenting antiques programmes nearly a decade before presenting the Antiques Roadshow.

In 2007 it was announced that Bruce was to replace the retiring Michael Aspel as presenter of the Antiques Roadshow in Spring 2008. She also appeared in a tongue-in-cheek BBC HD advert in 2008, featuring the 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.