Jeff Brazier

Jeffrey Carl Brazier[5] (born 27 May 1979) is an English television presenter and reality TV personality.

Jeff Brazier
Born
Jeffrey Carl Brazier

(1979-05-27) 27 May 1979
Tiptree, Essex, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationTelevision presenter
Years active2001–present
Known forWife Swap
This Morning
Loose Women
Spouse(s)
Kate Dwyer (m. 2018)
Partner(s)Jade Goody
(2002–2004)
Children2
Parent(s)Stephen Faldo (deceased)
Association football career
Playing position(s) Defender
Youth career
West Ham United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1998 Leyton Orient[1]
1997 → Billericay Town (loan)[1]
1998–2000 Canvey Island[2]
2000 Grays Athletic 18 (1)
2000–2001 Boreham Wood[3]
2016– AFC Varndeanians[4]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Early life and education

Brazier was brought up in Tiptree, near Colchester in Essex, and attended Thurstable School,[6] a mixed state comprehensive school in his home town.

Career

Television

In 2001, Brazier took part in the Channel 4 reality television show Shipwrecked, in which he and fifteen other people had to stay on a tropical island without any creature comforts. This series was noted for a number of conflicts and factional squabbles during which Brazier appeared to be an amiable and conciliatory figure. After this, Brazier took part in the ITV programme Simply the Best, as well as presenting the programmes Dirty Laundry and Big Brother Panto with June Sarpong.

In 2003, Brazier appeared in Celebrity Wife Swap with then-girlfriend Jade Goody, opposite Charles Ingram. In September 2004, Brazier won the Channel 5 reality TV show The Farm and also appeared in the Living TV programme I'm Famous and Frightened!.

Brazier performed as Aladdin in the pantomime at Chatham, Kent in 2005 and 2006, competed in the ITV wrestling competition Celebrity Wrestling and presented on Challenge.

Brazier hosted The X Factor Live Tour in venues all over the United Kingdom and Ireland since he hosted the show from 2005 to 2010.

In 2006, Brazier presented the revival of the CITV programme Finders Keepers. Brazier was a panellist on the now defunct ITV talk show Loose @5.30!, a spin-off of Loose Women and has also appeared in The Match and Celebrity Soccer Six on Sky1, where he played for England, as well as appearing on Call Me a Cabbie with Carol Thatcher and Janet Street Porter. Brazier has also been a This Morning "showbiz" presenter.

In November 2006, Brazier joined the presenting team of ITV2's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! with Kelly Osbourne in Australia and Mark Durden-Smith hosting at the London Studios. On 16 December 2006, Brazier was a guest reporter on The X Factor final live from contestant Ray Quinn's home town of Liverpool, and live from contestants Same Difference's home town of Portsmouth on 15 December 2007. He was the guest reporter at JLS's home town on 13 December 2008 and at Stacey Solomon's home town of Dagenham on 12 December 2009.

In 2010, Brazier was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch, and on 17 December 2010, Brazier presented a documentary, My Brother and Me, which was broadcast on BBC Three. From August until December 2011, Brazier co-presented OK! TV on Channel 5 with Jenny Frost.

Brazier is a guest presenter for ITV lifestyle show Sunday Scoop and also has regular stints on the daytime series This Morning (TV programme). Brazier is also a regular presenter and online blogger for Clothes Show Live in Birmingham. He is currently appearing on TV in adverts for People's Postcode Lottery [7]

Guest appearances
  • Celebrity Total Wipeout (18 September 2010) – Contestant
  • Mongrels (2010) – Guest appearance
  • Loose Women (17 May 2011, 30 March 2012) – Guest
  • Daybreak (2 March 2012) – Guest
  • Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (16 August 2014)[8] – Contestant
  • Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (2019) – Contestant

Dancing on Ice
Main article: Dancing on Ice

From 9 January to 13 March 2011, Brazier participated in the sixth series of the ice skating show Dancing on Ice, with professional female Canadian ice skater Isabelle Gauthier. He was in the bottom two three times: in week two against cricketer Dominic Cork, and in week five against Kerry Katona. In week 10, Brazier and Gauthier were eliminated after the judges votes to save Sam Attwater and his skating partner Brianne Delcourt.

Writing

Brazier writes a column in the Daily Mirror on a weekly basis.[9]

Personal life

Brazier's father, Stephen Faldo, was the skipper of the pleasure boat Marchioness, which sank on the River Thames in 1989 after being hit by a dredger, killing him as well as 50 others.[10]

Brazier has two sons from his relationship with Big Brother contestant Jade Goody: Bobby Jack (b. 2003) and Freddie (b. 2004). He and Goody appeared in Wife Swap in 2003 and Brazier was occasionally seen in Goody's Living shows. When Goody died in 2009,[11] he did not attend her funeral, but instead took their sons away from the media spotlight to stay with relatives in Adelaide, Australia.

Brazier presented a documentary on Living TV called Superdaddy, where he uses his experiences of being a single father to help other families learn to communicate with regards to their children. Brazier insisted his sons were not involved in filming and stated during the show that he has a privacy order banning any unauthorised images of the boys since Goody died, stating he prefers them to have a normal upbringing away from any media spotlight.

Brazier began dating former glamour model, Nicola Tappenden in December 2011. The couple, however, broke up in March 2013 with Tappenden moving out of Brazier's home.

On 1 October 2017, Brazier got engaged to his girlfriend Kate Dwyer.[12] On 15 September 2018, Brazier married Dwyer in Portugal.

References
  1. Jeff Brazier at Soccerbase
  2. "Canvey Island Football Club First XI 2000/1 Season". CanveyFC.com. 2000.
  3. "Wood set their sights on struggling Swans". Watford Observer. January 2001.
  4. New signings AFC Varndeanians
  5. Daybreak, 11 January 2011
  6. Julian Read (18 January 2016). "An interview with Jeff Brazier". Essex Life. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  7. "Meet Our New Ambassadors (People's Postcode Lottery)". www.postcodelottery.co.uk.
  8. "Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Episode 7". Press Centre.
  9. "Jeff Brazier". HuffPost UK. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  10. Gilbert, Gerald (30 September 2011). "The boy done good: Jade Goody's ex Jeff Brazier on surviving reality TV". The Independent. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. "Reality TV star Jade Goody dies". 22 March 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  12. "Jeff Brazier announces engagement to Kate Dwyer - eight years after Jade Goody's death". The Irish Independent. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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