Jeff Brazier - Television Career

Television Career

In 2001, Brazier took part in the Channel 4 reality TV 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 he took part in the ITV programme Simply the Best, as well as presenting the programmes Dirty Laundry and Big Brother Panto alongside June Sarpong.

In 2003 he appeared in Celebrity Wife Swap with his then girlfriend Jade Goody, alongside Charles Ingram (the man who was implicated in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? coughing episode). In September 2004, Brazier won the five reality TV show The Farm. He 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. Prior to this he competed in the ITV wrestling competition Celebrity Wrestling and presented on Challenge.

In 2006 he started presenting 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 show from Loose Women. He has also appeared in The Match and Celebrity Soccer Six on Sky One, where he played for England as well as appearing on Call Me a Cabbie with Carol Thatcher and Janet Street Porter. He 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, alongside Kelly Osbourne in Australia, with Mark Durden-Smith hosting in the London studio.

On 16 December 2006, he 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.

Brazier is also a regular host-presenter and online blogger for Clothes Show Live in Birmingham.

In 2010, he was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? along with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch. Brazier took part in a celebrity version of Total Wipeout which aired on 18 September 2010. He also appeared on an episode on Mongrels which also was aired in 2010

Brazier hosted The X Factor live tour in venues all over the UK and Ireland since he hosted the show in 2005 to 2010.

He presented a documentary, My Brother and Me, which broadcast on BBC Three on 17 December 2010.

From 9 January to 13 March 2011, Brazier participated in the sixth series of ice skating show Dancing on Ice, with his skating partner, 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, he and Gauthier were eliminated over Sam Attwater and Brianne Delcourt. His final score was 21.5 on that night.

Brazier also competed in Total Wipeout, in which he became the only person to run the Sucker Punch by actually running instead of moving bit by bit. When asked how it was done, Brazier simply replied "Bravery and stupidity in equal amounts!"

He currently writes a column in the Daily Mirror every week.

He co-presented OK! TV on Channel 5 with Jenny Frost from August until December 2011. Brazier also has regular stints on the daytime series This Morning on ITV.