FIONA Bruce is left fighting back tears on Fake or Fortune as a couple get ‘life-changing’ news about a statue they use as a door stop.
The 57-year-old appeared on Tuesday’s edition of The One Show alongside co-host Philip Mould to discuss the new series of the BBC antiques show.
In a clip shown to viewers of an upcoming episode, Fiona and Philip were seen discussing an elaborate door stop with couple Neil and Barbara in their garden.
Philip tells the couple that the sculpture could actually be a Henry Moore piece, and if it was, it would have a huge value.
He tells them: “If we can prove that this is a one-off – not one of a series, but a unique object by a much loved, highly regarded sculptor of the 20th century – we could be talking in excess of half a million pounds.”
Neil and Barbara exchange a look of shock, before he adds: “Who knows, could even be a million pounds”.
The couple are floored while Fiona exclaims: “Up to a million?”
Barbara replies: “That’s extraordinary!” before once again saying they had been using it as a door stop.
Back in The One Show studio, presenter Alex Jones asked Fiona how invested she gets.
She said: “You must really get into it and be, you know, on the side of the people and wanting it so much to be real for them.”
Fiona replied: “The thing is, for some people it is life-changing.
“So for Neil and Barbara, up to a million pounds, I mean I didn’t know you were going to say that when you said that Phillip.
“So I was as gobsmacked as they were. That is a life-changing moment.”
She then teased another moment in the show, saying: “There was not a dry eye in the house, including my own.”
Fake or Fortune? airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One.
