Anneka Rice arrested in Croatia after being found with a live bullet in her bag
Anneka Rice was arrested at a Croatian airport after being found with a live Kalashnikov bullet in her handbag.
A tour guide “randomly” gave the Challenge Anneka presenter the bullet as a gift, and she popped it in her handbag without thinking back in 2015. “It begs the question, what he was doing with it?” she laughs.
“At the airport I was arrested. Because it showed up on security, they found a live bullet in my handbag. I didn’t know what to say. I was separated – my kids had to wave me off, I was taken off, I was searched, I was questioned.”
Anneka Rice was arrested at a Croatian airport after being found with a live Kalashnikov bullet in her handbag (Getty Images)
The former Strictly star was left terrified (BBC/Ray Burmiston)Airport staff let her go as it was a Sunday, and they wanted to finish work early. “I associate Croatia with quite a lot of drama,” she laughs, adding she was “nearly shot at in the hills”.
“I feel honoured I’ve had these experiences in different countries.” The presenter had filmed Challenge Anneka in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s, and helped to rebuild a school there.
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“There were snipers trained on us,” she recalls. “I had a real moment of whether I’d get home.” She notes on her new Wine Club podcast that it felt “surreal” to return a few decades later for a boat trip.
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