Antiques Roadshow host Fiona Bruce celebrated her 60th birthday this week, but that's not the only milestone she's toasting to, as she gears up to mark her 30th wedding anniversary.
A hugely familiar face on our screens, the presenter shows no signs of slowing down and was named the sixth highest-paid BBC star in 2022, reportedly cashing in nearly £400,000.
Her husband has an equally high-flying career, and the pair sound like they know how to party. Fiona has planned a big bash for her birthday and anniversary to Nigel Sharrocks, 67, recently telling Woman & Home magazine: "I'm having a party because, as well as my birthday, it's my 30th wedding anniversary. We might as well go for it!" The star continued: "I've hired a really good DJ who normally does Heaven nightclub on Saturday nights."
Fiona tied the knot with husband Nigel in 1994 after meeting at an advertising agencyFiona and Nigel, 67, met at work in 1989, at advertising agency called Boase Massimo Pollitt where he was company director. She later made the move to television and became one of the BBC's biggest stars, bagging a role as a researcher at Panorama before becoming a reporter on the same show and on Newsnight. The pair own homes together in Belsize Park, London and Sydenham, Oxfordshire.
The TV veteran was made the first female presenter of BBC News at Ten in 1999 and went onto front both Crimewatch and Question Time for the channel. Fiona says her husband has always been 'happy to be in the background' and let her 'get on with her thing' but Nigel is a hugely successful businessman in his own right.
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The advertising mogul is a non-executive chairman of Digital Cinema Media, an advertisement agency which has had big-name clients including Odeon, Vue and Cineworld. He is also chair of Local Planet, another ad agency, and was formerly a managing director at Warner Bros.
The couple tied the knot in Islington, North London in 1994 and have two grown-up children together - son Sam, 26 and daughter Mia, 22. Mia's birth made headlines when Fiona returned to working on Crimewatch 16 days after her arrival. "I'm not some mad career monster," she told the Telegraph in 2001. "I don't want people to think I'm setting a terribly bad example here - the last thing I would advocate is women rushing back to work with a baby."
The newsreader became the first female to front BBC News at Ten (BBC)The star candidly told Good Housekeeping magazine in 2021 that she had successfully balanced her career with motherhood by "having the same nanny living with us for 20 years". "I don't think there's such a thing as quality time with your children," she added. "I think it's quantity. But there's never been any question that they take precedence over everything in my life, and always have done."
Fiona has previously spoken of her guilt at being a working mum, having been raised by her stay at home mother Rosemary. "She stopped working when she had her first child and never went back," the star told the Radio Times in 2018. "My parents' set-up was very traditional. I do judge my parenting skills against hers and often find myself falling short. She was always there, but I'm not."
But the newsreader said she had tried to emulate the qualities of her mother, who died in 2011. "She was very compassionate, always a good listener and her love was a constant throughout my life. She was very sympathetic, kind and understanding and I think those values can be underrated. So they are qualities that I now value very much and try to show as best I can."
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