Fiona Bruce and that the award was "demeaning". Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is an English television journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC as a researcher on "Panorama" in 1989, she has gone on to become the first female newsreader on the "BBC News at Ten" as well as presenting many flagship programmes for the corporation including the "BBC News at Six", "Crimewatch", "Real Story", "Antiques Roadshow" and "Fake or Fortune?". Fiona Bruce was born in Singapore, to an English mother and a Scottish father, who had worked his way up from a postboy to
Antiques Roadshow as in the "Jim'll Fix It" episode, with many of the "Roadshow" spectators looking on in astonishment, until antiques expert David Battie explained the ruse. The most valuable item to ever appear on the show featured on 16 November 2008. This was an original 1990s maquette of the "Angel of the North" sculpture by Antony Gormley, owned by Gateshead Council, which was valued at £1,000,000 by Philip Mould. Glassware expert Andy McConnell later valued a collection of chandeliers at seven million pounds (their actual insurance value), noting as he did so that this beat Mould's record; however these were fixtures