The full extent of Fiona Bruce’s injuries following a horse riding accident were on show as the Question Time host was spotted out in public on Friday.
The presenter spoke about getting a black eye and breaking her hand after falling of a horse during the BBC panel show on Thursday.
Despite the painful-looking bruise and arm in a cast, Fiona smiled as she stepped out wearing a sling a day after the show aired.
Bruce said on Question Time: “I thought I’d just mention it, it is the least interesting thing in the programme but in case you’re wondering I broke my hand, and I have got the remnants of a black eye, because I fell off a horse.
“And that’s all there is to say about that.”
Transport minister Richard Holden, shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth, writer Emma Dabiri, the executive chairman of Iceland supermarket, Richard Walker, and journalist and author Tony Parsons were on the panel on Thursday.
Bruce has fronted Question Time since 2019 when she took over from long-serving host David Dimbleby.
The presenter took up horse riding in 2011, and told the Daily Mail in 2021: “I can’t think about anything else when I’m doing it. I love being around horses. I love the speed. I love being outdoors.”
Last year she admitted she first started exercising after a doctor was shocked at her lack of movement.
In 2016, Bruce described the way she heard her bone break in the trampolining accident that led to her presenting the news in her trainers.
