Fiona Foster is a British television presenter and journalist with a lively high note voice, who has also spent several years working in the United States

United States

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. She is currently a presenter on the BBC World travel programme Fast Track.

She is the sister of fellow presenter Juliette Foster

Juliette Foster

Juliette Foster is a British journalist and television news presenter.She is the sister of fellow host Fiona Foster.After graduating from the University of Wales, Lampeter, she trained as a Radio Journalist at the London College of Printing. Her first job was as a freelance reporter for BBC Radio...

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Early career

Foster worked at BBC Radio Oxford in 1985. She also worked as a waitress and an announcer for Greyhound. Foster was one of the launch presenters of London News Network

London News Network

London News Network was a television news and facilities organisation in London. It was created in 1992 as a joint operation between London's two ITV contractors, Carlton Television and London Weekend Television, with each company holding a 50% stake...

's London Tonight

London Tonight

London Tonight is a regional news programme broadcast on ITV London . Produced by ITN, the programme is broadcast at 6pm every weeknight, also including local sports news and local features of interest.Like all regional news programmes on ITV in England and Wales and Channel Television, it uses...

 programme in 1993 together with Alastair Stewart

Alastair Stewart

Alastair James Stewart OBE is an English journalist and newscaster. Stewart is currently employed by ITN where he is a main newscaster for ITV News.-Early life:...

, having previously worked as a financial presenter on the Breakfast Business segment of BBC Breakfast News

Breakfast News

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ITV News

During the Iraq war in 2003 she presented for ITV News

ITV News

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She is currently a reporter on ITV

ITV

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's current affairs programme onight (TV series)|Tonight. Foster has also appeared in the Celebrity Poker Club

Celebrity Poker Club

Celebrity Poker Club was a British television series featuring celebrities playing poker. It aired on Challenge from 2003 to 2005 as a spin-off to Channel 4's popular Late Night Poker series...

 television series. She has provided the voiceover for a number of programmes in the …from Hell series such as Neighbours from Hell and Holidays from Hell.

Fiona was the co-presenter of ITV's monthly programme "Missing" (similar to Crimewatch

Crimewatch

Crimewatch is a long-running and high-profile British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes with a view to gaining information from the members of the public. The programme is usually broadcast once a month on BBC One...

 but featuring appeals on behalf of the National Missing Persons Helpline) alongside Alastair Stewart.

Personal life

She has two daughters by her husband, Tristan Hickey, and they live in North London.

In 2005 she appeared on the talk show Heads Up with Richard Herring

Heads Up with Richard Herring

Heads Up with Richard Herring or HUWRH, was a British celebrity chat show written by and starring Richard Herring, who is best known as one half of comedy duo Lee and Herring, the stars of BBC Two shows Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy...

to discuss her life, career and her love of poker.