1. Jennie Bond worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent.
21 Facts About Jennie Bond
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Jennie Bond has hosted Cash in the Attic and narrated the programme Great British Menu.
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Jennie Bond's career began in print, working for various local newspapers in London in journalism and sub-editing roles.
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In 1977, aged 27, Jennie Bond moved to BBC radio, producing and editing.
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Jennie Bond was a producer on Woman's Hour, Tuesday Call, International Assignment and for various television documentaries.
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In 1985, Jennie Bond became a radio news reporter and in 1988 she began to report for television, both for the BBC.
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Jennie Bond became a royal correspondent, which was to bring her to public attention, in 1989.
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Jennie Bond held the position as royal correspondent until the summer of 2003.
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Jennie Bond's reporting style suggested that she was close personally to members of the Royal Family.
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Jennie Bond commented that she had become close to Diana, Princess of Wales, and that her death came as a great shock.
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Jennie Bond actually instigated her first extended meeting with Diana in June 1995.
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Jennie Bond sent the princess a note, suggesting that if she was to report on Diana properly then she should at least know what her character was actually like, not basing her thoughts on stories that had appeared in newspapers.
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Jennie Bond 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.
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Jennie Bond fell out with fellow contestant Lord Brocket during the programme.
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Jennie Bond presented her own three-part documentary called Jennie Bond's Royals on Channel 5 and in 2005, she presented the BBC's daytime coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, alongside Charlie Dimmock.
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Jennie Bond had to convince two of her best friends she really was the Brummie.
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Jennie Bond was the host for the first series of Great British Menu, in which different chefs have to compete by cooking meals; the winner of the first series had the chance to cook for the Queen on her 80th birthday.
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Jennie Bond presented the second series of Great British Menu during April and May 2007.
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Jennie Bond has featured as the celebrity 'hider' in a 2008 episode of the CBBC show Hider in the House.
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Jennie Bond took part in ITV's entertainment show Born to Shine in aid of Save the Children.
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In September 2012, Jennie Bond appeared alongside Susie Dent on the Channel 4 programme Countdown.