Jane Mc Donald - Television

Television

As well as appearing on The Cruise, McDonald presented the television programme, Star for a Night, which helped launch the singer Joss Stone and also showed us the first glimpse of 2008's X Factor winner Alexandra Burke. She has also appeared on the reality shows, Have I Been Here Before, "All Star Family Fortunes" and Drop the Celebrity.

McDonald appeared on a celebrity special of Ready Steady Cook. She and her fellow chef won over the audience with their dish of 'half baked carp' with a cheese sauce, and claimed the cash prize. She donated all the money to Wakefield Hospice, a local charity of her home town.

Since 2004, McDonald has been a regular presenter on the ITV daytime television programme Loose Women. appearing on the show three times a week. It was confirmed on 16 July 2010 that McDonald would depart Loose Women in the summer, taking at least a year's break to concentrate on her music career and to tour Australia and New Zealand. She left at the end of the series on 6 August 2010 and returned on 16 January 2012. She has also been a panelist on The Wright Stuff in both 2005 and 2006.

McDonald appeared in a documentary called Return to the Cruise, which celebrated the tenth anniversary of The Cruise finding out how much McDonald enjoyed her fame and success. This was shown over several nights of the week beginning 11 August 2008 on BBC Two. She was a guest on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on 22 March 2008, with Christopher Biggins in Grab the Ads playing Tarzan and Jane. On 20 July 2008, she featured on The Sunday Night Project. She also appeared on the celebrity edition of Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? in September 2008 where she won £50,000 for the Wakefield Hospice.

Since 1 October 2010, McDonald has been a regular contributor to The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

Since 10 January 2011, McDonald has narrated all three series of the Channel 4 reality show Celebrity 5 Go to...

On 14 March 2011, McDonald reviewed the daily newspapers with Kelvin MacKenzie on ITVs This Morning.

On 5 July 2011, McDonald appeared as a competitor on ITV's Ten Mile Menu. The show challenged two teams to cook a three-course meal using only local produce from a ten mile radius. Each team was made up of a professional chef and a celebrity guest. McDonald's partner was renowned chef Jun Tanaka (chef). McDonald and Tanaka went on to win the programme by out cooking actress Terri Dwyer and professional chef Aldo Zilli.

On 16 October 2011, McDonald telephoned into ITV's The Xtra Factor from a live concert in Bridlington to stick up for contestant Samantha Brookes after a cruise-ship slur to contestant Samantha Brookes by judge Gary Barlow

On 27 October 2011 a newspaper article evolving around McDonald was the "Subject Of Converstion" on that morning's episode of The Wright Stuff McDonald phoned in after several members of the public to express her opinion about the article.

On 25 November 2011 McDonald was invited to perform at the David Foster and friends concert at The Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.