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Ms Bruce presents Question Time tonight at 10:35pm on BBC One. The topical debate show sees guests from across the political spectrum discuss the issues of the week and answer questions
posed by members of the public. Ms Bruce, who has fronted the show for almost three years, will be presenting the programme in front of a studio audience in Morecambe. This week the show
also sparked controversy after the BBC asked the unvaccinated to join the Question Time audience. Ms Bruce appealed for those who are not vaccinated to sit in the audience when the show
visits London on February 2, to explore why a “relatively high proportion” of Londoners were not vaccinated. The broadcaster, who was also the first ever female presenter of BBC News at 10
in 2003, inherited her position as Question Time host from David Dimbleby who left the programme in 2018. Ms Bruce anchored the show throughout the first lockdown over Zoom, and had to
keep up appearances despite not having hairdressers open and BBC make-up artists on hand. READ MORE: BORIS JOHNSON DID AUTHORISE ANIMAL EVACUATION FROM AFGHANISTAN She revealed in a May 2020
interview with The Telegraph that a “crisis” with her roots led to her advertising-executive husband Nigel Sharrocks, attempting to dye the broadcaster's hair. The home hair-dye did
not go to plan however. Ms Bruce said: “I had a complete crisis with my roots. “Then my husband watched a video on YouTube and coloured my hair for me. Despite Ms Bruce having insisted in a
2006 Guardian interview that her husband prefers to be away from the spotlight, Mr Sharrocks has found success in his own right. He is a non-executive chairman of Digital Cinema Media, an
advertising company that supplies adverts to be played in the UK’s major cinemas, including Cineworld, Odeon and Vue. He also previously worked at Warner Bros Pictures UK, Aegis Media and
MediaCom. Ms Bruce and Mr Sharrocks have two adult children, with their son Sam having arrived in January 1998, and their daughter Mia being born three years later in November 2001. Just
over two weeks after Mia was born, the broadcaster returned to work, which at the time sparked debate in the press. Under law, mothers cannot return to work within two weeks of giving
birth. Yet Ms Bruce explained to the Telegraph in 2006: “I am not some mad career monster. “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.” She explained she was only able to return to work so quickly because she was part-time, reading the news once or twice a week, and
occasionally at weekends. Ms Bruce added: “With my first baby Sam, I was a full-time reporter on Newsnight and took seven months off. “If I was still doing that job, that’s what I’d have
done again.” Watch Question Time at 10:35pm on BBC One.