Fiona Bruce makes news in corset
November 12, 2007 
Ten O'Clock News presenter Fiona Bruce is donning a corset and stilettos for this year's Children in Need TV appeal.
According to the Daily Mail, the corset will transform the news reader into 'Fifi LaBruce' as she performs a song-and-dance routine from Chicago in order to encourage people to donate money to charity.
The 43-year-old will fill the corset made famous by Catherine Zeta Jones as Chicago character Velma Kelly, backed up by the BBC's news team, with Nicholas Owen, Bill Turnbull, Dermot Murnaghan, Andrew Marr and Ben Brown performing to showstopper All That Jazz.
Dressed in a sparkly black corset, hotpants and sporting a black bob, Ms Bruce reassured that she would only be wearing the outfit onstage.
She told the newspaper: "I don't think somehow I'll be wearing the outfit on the Ten O'Clock News to keep Trevor [McDonald] on his toes. Every year the costumes seem to get smaller. If I do it again next year I'll try to make sure I'm covered from head to toe to spare the viewers."
Five years ago, much of the then-news team appeared in corsets for Children in Need, with Michael Buerk in fishnets leading a number from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Since then, the news readers have made an annual appearance on the fundraiser.
Ms Bruce explained: "In the newsroom we are never given a choice about what we are going to perform for Children In Need. We are presented with a number, then an unbelievably persistent producer calls us every day for three weeks until we finally give in.
"I can't believe I'm doing this - singing and dancing together. If you ask me, it's probably a good time for everyone to go out!"
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