Jasmine Birtles

Jasmine Birtles is a financial and business journalist, author and presenter.[1]

Jasmine Birtles
Born
Jasmine Birtles

United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
OccupationAuthor,
Journalist,
Television presenter,
Entrepreneur
Home townLondon, England

Her consumer website Moneymagpie focuses on making and saving money. She has made appearances on several British television programmes including Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast,[2] This Morning,[3] The Wright Stuff,[4] Channel 4 News,[5] and Sky News.[6] She has presented several TV programmes including Homes Under the Hammer, Spend Spend Spend, First Time Buyers and Doctor Dosh. She is also patron of the charity Fair for You.[7]

Financial journalism

Broadcast media

Birtles presented debt documentary The Insider for Channel 4. She is a financial commentator for This Morning, Good Morning Britain, BBC News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff. She is also a regular guest on radio programmes including the BBC's You and Yours,[8] Steve Wright in the Afternoon,[9] Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and BBC local radio and commercial stations.

Writing

Birtles has monthly money columns in Reader's Digest,[10] Closer magazine, and Prima Baby. She has written for a number of other newspapers and magazines in the past. In addition, she has written several e-books, and almost forty physical books, including the best seller A Little Book of Abuse (2000, Boxtree) and her latest publication Beat the Banks![11] (2010, Vermilion). Other titles include:[12]

  • A Woman's Little Instruction Book (1995, Boxtree)
  • Do You Still Miss Your Ex-Husband? Yes But My Aim Is Improving. (1996, O'Mara)
  • A Parent's Little Instruction Book (1996, Boxtree)
  • 1001 Knock Knock Jokes (1998, Robinson)
  • The Little Book of Excuses (2001, Boxtree)
  • A Girl's Best Friend Is Her Money (2002, Boxtree)
  • A Little Book of More Abuse (2002, Boxtree)
  • A Bit on the Side, 500 Ways to Boost your Income (2005, Piatkus)
  • Money Book: Control Your Money, Control Your Life (2006, Piatkus)
  • The Money Magpie (2009, Vermilion)

Public speaking

As a public speaker[13] Birtles has spoken at conferences for a wide variety of companies and organisations.[14]

She performed a one-woman show – a humorous take on money management – at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005,[15] called "How to be Rich Without Really Trying".

Travel writing

Birtles is on the expert panel for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, a columnist for Family Traveler and regularly writes about travel on Moneymagpie.com.

Background

Birtles went to Brighton and Hove High School. She won a scholarship to read English Literature at Christ's College, Cambridge, where she was a member of Footlights and performed with the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society. After university she enjoyed a short stint as an actress and toured with a production of Don’t Dress for Dinner. She still takes to the stage as a stand up comedian and once compered her own comedy club, The Giggling Elk.

References
  1. 'Once women understand money, they do much better than men' The Independent, 10 May 2003
  2. Jasmine, Birtles. "Money saving tips". BBC.YouTube. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  3. This, Morning. "This Morning". ITV. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  4. Jasmine, Birtles. "The Wright Stuff". Channel 5.
  5. UK, Growth. "Save or Spend". Channel 4. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  6. Eamon, Holmes. "Sky News". Sky. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  7. "Feel Trapped with your Credit File? - Fair for You". Fair for You. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  8. Jasmine, Birtles (14 October 2009). "The search for 'green shoots'". BBC. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  9. Jasmine, Birtles. "Steve Wright in the Afternoon". BBC Radio 2. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  10. Reader's, Digest. "Podcasts". Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  11. Jasmine, Birtles. "Beat the Banks". Vermilion. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  12. Jasmine Birtles Amazon.co.uk
  13. Speakers, Corner. "Jasmine Birtles". Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  14. Jasmine Birtles Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine City Speakers International, 2010
  15. How To Be Rich Without Really Trying Chortle, 2005
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