Fiona Bruce is one of the BBC's most experienced and high profile news presenters. She currently is one of the main presenters of the Ten O'Clock News and is also a presenter of Crimewatch. She also fronts the BBC1 weekly current affairs programme, Real Story with Fiona Bruce, and in 2008 she will be taking over as presenter of the BBCs Antiques Roadshow. In June 2007 Fiona presented a documentary on BBC1 about the plight of the tiger in India, as part of the Saving Planet Earth series.

She has been named 'Newscaster of the Year' three times at the Television and Radio Industry (TRIC) Awards in 2003, 2006 and 2007 - and is the recipient of the Michael Elliott Award for Television Presentation 2003.

Before becoming a presenter, Fiona was a reporter in current affairs for ten years. She was on Newsnight for two years and also reported on Panorama. Prior to that she reported on current affairs programmes such as Public Eye and First Sight where she won an award from CNN for best health story. She was also a reporter for Breakfast News. She began her BBC career at Panorama as a researcher and then assistant producer. In those ten years she reported from all around the world including Kurdistan, the United States, the Middle East and mainland Europe.

Before her career in journalism, Fiona worked in advertising and management consultancy. She has an MA from Oxford University in French and Italian and is fluent in both languages.

TESTIMONIALS

''Just to say thank you so much for being such a lovely, professional and warm special guest at our event last night. It was a real pleasure meeting you and everyone thoroughly enjoyed your talk great fun and I cant tell you how many chaps came up to me afterwards wishing they had claimed back their letter! On behalf of Chris, myself and all the Seals, thank you again for helping make our evening event a success''.
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