JONO & DANIELLE FRE 'I'M ONE & DONE!'

As she makes her Travel Guides debut, Jono's wife reveals why it'll be her first – and last! – appearance on the show

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Danielle Fren is used to holding down the fort at home in Newcastle, NSW while the rest of her family entertain us with their antics on Logie-winning Nine series Travel Guides. But when Victoria wasn't able to make a recent trip to Japan due to a work commitment, Jonathan's wife had just a matter of hours to decide whether or not she would step in and take her sister-in-law's place.

"I thought, 'No, I couldn't possibly do it,'" Danielle tells Woman's Day. "Then it was just a lot of encouragement from [Jono] and his parents, and I thought, 'Why not give it a go? It'd be good to just see what's involved, what they do."

Armed with the advice to just be herself and "act like the cameras aren't there", Danielle, 34, threw herself into the trip, airing this Sunday, which saw the Frens experience all the magic and wonder of winter in Osaka and Kyoto.

"Everyone was really lovely and welcoming, and you really did just forget about it [the cameras]," Danielle says. "So it just felt like I was away with Jono and his parents. And we all get along great, so it went better than I thought.

"I thought I would be very in my head about it all. It's scary but you sort of just forget about the cameras and all of that and you just enjoy the activities."

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