“I learnt a salutary lesson when I was being hired for the 'Six O'Clock News' and others were being fired, people who I thought were great, like Jill Dando. Letting her go was a big mistake, in my view. But that is probably going to be me one day - I'll read about it in the press and that will be that.”

British journalist and television presenter

Fiona Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. She joined the BBC in 1989 as a researcher on Panorama, and later became the first female newsreader on BBC News at Ten. She went on to present several major BBC programmes, including BBC News at Six, Crimewatch, Real Story, Antiques Roadshow and Fake or Fortune?. Since 10 January 2019, she has presented BBC One's Question Time.