Jennie Bond's proudest career moment - and it has nothing to do with the royals

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Throughout her storied career as the BBC's royal correspondent, Jennie Bond had some incredible encounters and experienced some of the monarchy's biggest moments first-hand.

Jennie's time in the role lasted from 1989 to 2003 and saw her cover perhaps the most turbulent period of recent royal history - from marriage breakdowns to infamous interviews and from a devastating fire to deaths that rocked the world.

And, as she sits down during her exclusive OK! shoot to celebrate her 35th anniversary as a leading royal reporter, Jennie surprises us by revealing that covering all of these landmark royal events is not the proudest moment of her career... “My most rewarding job over these 35 years was in the jungle in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here," she laughs. "It is a gig I only got because I was known as the Royal Correspondent and I think the producers thought it would be quite funny having the BBC’s former Royal Correspondent eating bugs in the jungle or being buried in a coffin full of rats. "In fact, I was told that the Queen had expressed quite a lot of interest that I was buried in a coffin full of rats… something which I think she probably wanted to do to me herself!

I was told she was ‘most interested’ that this had happened to me so it gave her a giggle… and it gave me a whole new career and a whole new lease of life.” Before she headed Down Under for the 2004 show, Jennie’s role had already taken her around the world many times over.