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Cruising with Jane McDonald wins BAFTA
The popular Channel 5 show Cruising with Jane McDonald has won a BAFTA TV award.
The series beat off rivals including The Secret Life of the Zoo and Antiques Roadshow in the Best Features category to win the accolade at last night’s event in London.
The award is Channel 5’s first BAFTA.
McDonald told the audience she was ‘shocked’ and had asked someone else to write her speech because she did not expect to win.
The show launched in spring 2017 and instantly became a hit among fans of Jane, a former Loose Women panellist and professional singer and entertainer.
She hit the spotlight 20 years ago when she appeared in the docusoap show The Cruise, which featured life on board a Celebrity Cruises ship.
A second series of Cruising with Jane McDonald was launched in August 2017 and a third has recently aired.
The fourth series of the show will return to Channel 5 this summer.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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