Fiona Bruce
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Fiona Bruce (born 25 April 1964 in Singapore) is a British journalist and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many programmes for the corporation including the Ten O'Clock News, Real Story and Crimewatch UK, as well as appearing elsewhere in the likes of Call My Bluff.
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[edit] Education
Bruce first attended St. George's British International School in Rome, then the sixth form of Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross, London and then studied French and Italian at Hertford College, Oxford.
During her time at university, she was a self-confessed punk and for seventeen years and one week had blue hair.
[edit] Career
Fiona Bruce began her career with the BBC in 1989 as a researcher and then as assistant producer on Panorama.
Bruce's first onscreen appearance for the BBC was in 1992 as a reporter for Breakfast News. She also worked for the BBC's South East television service, appearing as an occasional presenter and reporter on Newsroom South East. During this time she also appeared on some weekend main BBC News bulletins.
In 1999, as part of a major relaunch of the BBC's news output, Bruce was named secondary presenter of the Six O'Clock News bulletin. She presented the programme as cover for main presenter Huw Edwards as well as regularly on fridays until a presenter reshuffle in January 2003 to coincide with the retirement of Michael Buerk and the move of Peter Sissons to BBC News 24. Both Edwards and Bruce moved to presenting the Ten O'Clock News and have presented the programme on their respective days since. By becoming presenter, she became the first woman to ever present the bulletin from launch in 2000.
Following the murder of Jill Dando, Bruce took over the position of co-presenter on Crimewatch UK alongside Nick Ross.
[edit] Parody
Since Dead Ringers has transferred to TV from radio, Fiona, more than any other newsreader except Charlotte Green of BBC Radio 4, has been parodied by Jan Ravens, ruthlessly exaggerating idiosyncratic feline mannerisms. Lines include: "I'm Fiona Bruce. There's never a hosepipe ban when I'm in the room."
