Fiona Bruce

Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is a British journalist, newsreader, and television presenter. She joined the BBC as a researcher for Panorama in 1989, and became the first female newsreader on the BBC News at Ten, as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation, including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow, and Fake or Fortune? Since 10 January 2019, she has been the presenter of the BBC One television programme Question Time. Early life and education Bruce was born on 25 April 1964 in what was then the State of Singapore, Malaysia, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had a long career at Unilever, becoming a regional managing director. Before that, the Bruce family had lived for several generations in the fishing village of Hopeman in Moray in the north-east of Scotland. Bruce has two elder brothers. She was educated at Gayton Primary School on the Wirral, the International School of Milan, and then, from the age of 14 until 18, attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross, London. During the latter period she modelled for the stories in the teenage girls' magazine Jackie. Bruce's great-grandfather, Frederick Crouch, died in fighting on the Western Front in World War I. Bruce read French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford. During that period, she was briefly a punk, singing in rock bands and, at one point, colouring her hair blue for one week. She attended the University of London Institute in Paris and is a fluent speaker of French and Italian.