Thirty seconds into her woman&home interview and Fiona Bruce is almost speechless.
‘No. Is it?! Oh my gosh, I think it is! Oh my God!’ she splutters, mid-mouthfuls of halloumi salad. She’s struggling to digest the opening query: How does she feel about 2024 being her 35th year working for the BBC? Recruited as a researcher for in December 1989, Fiona went on to become the first female newsreader on before going on to present a host of flagship shows. ‘Do you know, I had not clocked that, at all. You’re just busy getting on, doing your thing,’ she says. ‘When I started at the BBC, I took out a private pension and I remember thinking, “Well, I’ll never be working past 50. No one will ever have me
