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Camera IconReggie captured the hearts of the nation and became a household name when she won Big Brother in 2003. Credit: Unknown Ten 10\/TEN 10<\/p>\nFormer reality television star Reggie Bird has opened up about the challenges she\u2019s faced since leaving the industry, revealing she can\u2019t even get a job at Subway.<\/p>\n
The Aussie TV personality first rose to fame in 2003 when she won the third season of Big Brother Australia, taking home the $250,000 prize, before going on to make history two decades later when she won the competition for a second time after returning for the spin-off show Big Brother: Royalty vs New Contenders in 2023.<\/p>\n
She was also the runner-up in the 2025 edition of I\u2019m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!<\/p>\n
Despite her success in reality television, the 52-year-old has highlighted the uglier side of life after the cameras stop rolling.<\/p>\n
Camera IconReggie captured the hearts of the nation and became a household name when she won Big Brother in 2003. Credit: Unknown Ten 10\/TEN 10<\/p>\n
In a post uploaded to her Instagram on Monday, the visually impaired TV personality and activist shared a screenshot of a rejection notification she received after applying for a job with a fast-food-chain, alongside the caption: \u201cBugger \u2026..I can\u2019t even get a job making sandwiches.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SEEK message read: \u201cHi Regina. Thank you for your interest in the Subway Sandwich Artist – Gold Coast Uni Hospital job at Yapbus Pty Ltd.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks unlikely that your application will progress further. You may or may not still hear back from the employer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The post quickly amassed hundreds of messages of support, with people commenting with their own stories of being unsuccessful in getting a job.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegina, I feel your pain. It seems that applying and being successful with a job application you have to think like a robot as most applications are AI assessed. I am always hopeful with my job search applications but are in the end often receive the response letter like you,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n
Another commented: \u201cThese days just to wash dishes\/kitchen hand you need at least 3 years experience\u201d.<\/p>\n
Others were quick to encourage Bird to try following a different career path entirely.<\/p>\n
\u201cI reckon you\u2019d be great at radio or podcasting. I\u2019d listen!\u201d one user remarked, while another said: \u201cI don\u2019t understand why you don\u2019t just do your own podcast you would be raking it in\u201d.<\/p>\n
The mother-of-two has never shied from trying out a range of roles in the past, having worked as a flight attendant for Virgin Blue and a manager of a fish-and-chip shop in Tasmania.<\/p>\n
Bird has previously admitted to finding it difficult to secure employment since becoming a household name through her reality TV stint.<\/p>\n
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Camera IconThe reality TV star is diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye condition that has left her legally blind. Credit: reggiebirdbb\/Instagram\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Appearing on the Mental As Anyone podcast in 2024, she told host Jonathan Moran she often \u201cfeels like a failure\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m starting to think, why doesn\u2019t anyone want to give me a job? I want to work, and that starts to make you feel like… no one wants you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could answer phones, you know, I\u2019m good at talking to people.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also reflected on living with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye condition that has left her legally blind and limiting the type of work she can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m limited to what I can do because my eyes are so stuffed. I\u2019ve now got nine degrees of pinhole vision, no peripheral vision and no night vision left.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former reality television star Reggie Bird has opened up about the challenges she\u2019s faced since leaving the industry,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-818374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}