Fiona Bruce
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Fiona Bruce in 2010
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Fiona Elizabeth Bruce 25 April 1964 Singapore |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Hertford College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Television producer, news presenter, presenter |
| Years active | 1989–present |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Spouse(s) | Nigel Sharrocks (m. 1994–present) |
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Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is a British television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher on Panorama in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Antiques Roadshow and, most recently, Fake or Fortune.
From 2003 until 2007, she also anchored her own current affairs series, Real Story.
Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had worked his way up from a postboy to become managing director of a division of Unilever. Her mother Rosemary was adopted. Fiona has two older brothers. She was educated at Gayton Primary School in Heswall on the Wirral, the International School of Milan, 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 period she was a punk, and for one week had blue hair.
After leaving university, Bruce joined a management consulting firm for a year, but found the experience depressingly dull:
After this, she worked at a number of advertising agencies including Boase Massimi Pollitt (where she met her future husband, a company director). She then went on to meet Tim Gardam – at that time the editor of the BBC's Panorama – at a wedding and pestered him until, in 1989, he gave her a job as a researcher on the programme.
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