Jennie Bond

Jennie Bond

Jennifer Bond is an English journalist and television presenter. She worked for 14 years as the BBC’s royal correspondent. She has most recently hosted Cash in the Attic and narrated the programme Great British Menu. She was runner-up in the third series of the reality TV show I’m a Celebrity.

About Jennie Bond in brief

Summary Jennie BondJennifer Bond is an English journalist and television presenter. She worked for 14 years as the BBC’s royal correspondent. She has most recently hosted Cash in the Attic and narrated the programme Great British Menu. She was runner-up in the third series of the reality TV show I’m a Celebrity. Bond wrote a book in 2001 called Reporting Royalty, which tells how she covered the Royal Family in the 1990s. She travelled with Diana, Princess of Wales on her trip to Angola, with the Queen on her first official visits to Russia in 1994 and when she met Nelson Mandela in South Africa a year later. She also took part in a celebrity episode of The Chase, where she won £20,000 for being placed in a water-filled coffin with rats for ten minutes.

In 2003, she made an appearance in an episode of the comedy series Little Britain. In February 2004, she proved popular with the public when she finished as runner up in the second series of ITV’s Get Me Out of Here! This episode, broadcast on 9 February, received viewing figures of 14. 99 million, making it the most watched programme on ITV and BBC One that week. Bond appeared on the show to raise money for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust and to buy a state-of-the-art navigation system to extend its helicopter flying time throughout the summer. During her time on the programme she was required to do various ‘tucker’ trials, which involved eating various creatures and a witchety grub.