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
Fiona Bruce edition of the programme's next series. In September 1998 Bruce 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 antiques programmes nearly a decade before presenting the "Antiques Roadshow". On 22 June 2007 it was announced that Bruce was to replace the retiring Michael Aspel as presenter of "Antiques Roadshow" in Spring 2008; initially causing some controversy. However, average viewership increased during Bruce's first year as presenter. In 2007 Bruce wrote and presented a BBC documentary about Cherie Blair as Tony Blair