Fiona Bruce, 54, who appears on the BBC series Antiques Roadshow, sat down with the comedian Russell Howard for a candid interview where nothing appeared off limits. Sitting in front of the studio audience, Russell asked the presenter: “Millions of people watch you everyday. You’ve got news groupies..like superfans. “Some of them are quite strange?” Fiona replied: “Some are quite strange.
“I had one chap who wrote to me and he wrote quite a long letter describing how he liked to go for solitary walks.
“He then said, this was a heartbreaking sentence, he liked to wear the latest sports jackets and ties. Then when it moved onto the kind of underpants he liked to wear I was like, hang on.”
She continued: “He then said I really like you. He then added p.s. I have a medium-sized penis.”
Fiona chuckled: “He clearly din’t want go get my hopes up. What a boast!”
Russell admonished: “There is something very sweet about that.
While pretending to be the obsessed fan, he added: “Listen I’m a weirdo, I’m not going to deny I’m not. But I’m not a liar.”
The BBC presenter who is now a regular feature on Antiques Roadshow since 2008 has since continued to expand her television career.
The newsreader is also the new host of Question Time, formerly presented by David Dimbleby after he held the top spot for 25 years.
Prior to her appearance, she admitted she had “not felt this nervous in a long time”.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Fiona commented: “I am expecting people to say ‘Who the hell is that?’ ‘Why have they got her?’
“I’ve got a slight feeling of tin hats at the ready.”
The mother-of-two continued, saying she has “not felt this nervous in a long time, but I know that if I am nervous that isn’t helpful.
“If people think you are nervous then that isn’t a comfortable watch.”
Meanwhile, Fiona will present the show from Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, one of the first stately homes in Britain to be converted into a hospital and convalescent home during the First World War.
Antiques Roadshow continues tonight on BBC One at 8pm.