Broadcaster and journalist Jennie Bond appears regularly on a wide range of television and radio programmes – from news reports and documentaries to light entertainment. Her expertise and long experience of reporting on the Royal Family over the past 35 years is internationally recognised. She’s also known to young and old for her exploits in the jungle of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and had to eat a variety of live insects. Since then, she has presented two of the BBC’s most popular shows: Cash in the Attic and Rip Off Britain. She also presented the highly successful BBC2 series Great British Menu. She has appeared...
Broadcaster and journalist Jennie Bond appears regularly on a wide range of television and radio programmes – from news reports and documentaries to light entertainment. Her expertise and long experience of reporting on the Royal Family over the past 35 years is internationally recognised.
She’s also known to young and old for her exploits in the jungle of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here when she was buried in a coffin full of rats and had to eat a variety of live insects.
Since then, she has presented two of the BBC’s most popular shows: Cash in the Attic and Rip Off Britain. She also presented the highly successful BBC2 series Great British Menu. She has appeared on Richard Osman’s House of Games and The Weakest Link, and contributed to numerous documentaries including The Day I Met the Queen. Other projects include Channel 4’s Drugs Live, Royals at War, Masterchef, Too Many Cooks, Stars in their Eyes, Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman, Christmas of My Lifetime with Len Goodman, The Big Call and her personal account of her time as a royal correspondent, the three-part documentary series for Channel Five, Jennie Bond’s Royals.
As the BBC’s Royal Correspondent during 14 of the most turbulent years the monarchy has endured, Jennie was at the heart of events that made headlines around the world: from the fairytale marriages to the adultery, the divorces and the deaths. Most recently Jennie has reported on the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Coronation of King Charles.
Jennie still enjoys commentating and writing about royalty today and likes to share her often hilarious experiences and adventures with audiences at home and abroad. She loves to make people laugh and to show them that she is quite different from how people imagined her when she stood outside the Palace.
For many years Jennie was also a regular news presenter on BBC Television and presented the main bulletins as well as Breakfast.
She began her career in journalism after graduating from Warwick University in 1972. She worked on local papers for five years before joining BBC Radio News. During the next few years, she gained a thorough grounding in radio news, editing the main bulletins. She also worked as a producer on current affairs shows, including the very popular Woman’s Hour, and in light entertainment with Noel Edmonds.
She returned to full-time reporting in 1986 with BBC Radio, covering major news stories, for example in Northern Ireland. She also began her career as a presenter, anchoring — among other programmes – the top current affairs show in the UK, Today, on Radio 4.
Jennie has written several books on the Royal Family. Her first, Reporting Royalty: Behind the scenes with the BBC’s Royal Correspondent, was published in 2001, and is a detailed account of her years of keeping tabs on the Royals. In the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Year, Carlton Books published her Elizabeth: 50 Glorious Years, a commemoration of the Queen’s reign. She updated this book for the Queen’s 80th birthday. Today, Jennie frequently contributes opinion pieces to various newspapers, as well as making regular appearances on television and radio.
Married with a daughter, she lives in Devon and thoroughly enjoys getting away from it all at her seaside home.
Jennie also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. She has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad.
