BBC icon Fiona Bruce has been a staple of our screens for years, presenting Antiques Roadshow and Query Time week in, week out. She joined the company again in 1989 as a researcher on Panorama, and was the primary ever feminine newsreader on BBC Information at Ten. However years earlier than, she had a really completely different profession.

Fiona really began out as a mannequin. Whereas she was nonetheless a scholar at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Faculty, Fiona headed out to seek out work and landed a task in teenage journal Jackie, the place she appeared within the Photograph Love function. The comic-strip type function included black and white snaps of Fiona with different fashions overlaid with speech bubbles, depicting typical teenage issues.

Fiona was simply 15 years previous when she landed her job. She defined: “I’d been in search of a Saturday job as my mum had instructed me to get off my bottom. On the time, £3 an hour was riches.”

That’s a stark distinction to her wage on the Beeb now, which is between £410,000 and £414,999 per 12 months.

She reached out to the boys she “fancied” in school to participate within the images together with her, admitting to giving the male roles to boys she “wished to snog”. However she’d usually be compelled to bend her knees to get an excellent snap, as she was often taller than her male counterparts.

Fiona instructed The Guardian that appears additionally performed an element in her getting a job as a newsreader, admitting: “What I really assume is you may’t appear like the again finish of a bus, and also you do have to clean up fairly nicely.

“However do it’s a must to be a magnificence? No. Do it’s a must to pay extra consideration to your look than the blokes do? Sure. In case you appear like the again finish of the bus, as a girl you will not get the job. In case you appear like the again finish of a bus as a bloke, you may get the job.”