One of the BBC’s best-known presenters, alongside Question Time and Ten O’Clock News duties Fiona also fronts Antiques Roadshow and Fake or Fortune? Her career has also taken in quiz shows, state occasions and documentaries.
Fiona Bruce is one of the BBC's highest profile presenters. She is the anchor of the flagship current affairs debate show, Question Time. The BBC’s most senior female news presenter also presides over Antiques Roadshow, and art investigation programme Fake or Fortune? She has also presented BBC’s News at Six and News at Ten.
Fiona has hosted state occasions, quiz shows and conducted the only in-depth British television interview with Bill Gates on his departure from Microsoft.
After working in advertising, and in her own management consultancy, Fiona joined Panorama as a researcher and assistant producer. She became a reporter on Newsnight and Public Eye, before fronting the News at Six, and co-presenting Crimewatch. Other credits include the documentary series Real Story and The Money Programme. She was also the first woman to front part of the BBC General Election Results programme.
Away from news Fiona has appeared twice on Top Gear and has stood in for Jeremy Clarkson penning his Sunday Times column. She’s been a guest on Would I Lie to You? and Room 101, has undertaken cameos on Tracey Ullman’s Show, and appeared as the Reverend Fiona Bruce in a Comic Relief edition of The Vicar of Dibley. She wrote and presented the documentaries Victoria: A Royal Love Story, The Queen's Palaces, and Leonardo, as well as programmes profiling Alan Sugar and Cherie Blair.
Fiona has won the Medical Story of the Year award and been named best presenter by the Royal Television Society, and Newscaster of the Year. Her book Savvy – the modern woman’s guide to doing all without risking it all, is a comprehensive and down-to-earth guide to negotiating the practical perils of the 21st Century.
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