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As the host of Backyard Blitz Jamie Durie relishes the chance to take a backyard, or as he calls it a blank canvas, and turn it into something beautiful that helps to change people’s lifestyles. He loves the thrill on the final day of the makeover and the look of sheer joy it brings to its owners’ faces.
Jamie joined Backyard Blitz as host when it premiered in 2000 and last year was also a team member of Nine’s hugely successful Renovation Rescue specials which brought together the stars of Australia’s popular lifestyle shows as they offered a helping hand to someone deserving of a good turn.
Jamie, originally from Manly in Sydney, spent much of his time in the mining town of Tom Price in north Western Australia before moving to the Gold Coast where he completed high school.
He spent the next eight years travelling and working overseas in Europe, Asia and the United States where he had a successful modelling career.
Jamie is an accomplished gymnast who has performed in cabaret shows as an acrobat and trapeze artist and with the troupe Manpower which he also managed from 1990 – 1996. Between 1994 and 1996, Jamie trained with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas and mastered a special trapeze movement, the Russian flying act.
Jamie featured in James Houston’s photographic art book, Raw, which was shot on location throughout the United States. He also appeared in commercials and twice been a Cleo bachelor.
His television credits include hosting Dig This, a series of short gardening programs for Foxtel, and One West Waikiki, from the maker of Magnum PI, Glen A. Larson, in which he appeared along side Cheryl Ladd.
On returning to Sydney in 1997 he established a landscape design business, Patio, which provides landscape design for commercial and domestic gardens in Australia and internationally, with clients in the United States and Hong Kong. Over the last four years the business has enjoyed tremendous success and has been profiled in publications such as: Marie Claire Lifestyle, Vogue Living, Belle, Australian House and Garden, Burke’s Backyard Magazine etc.
Jamie has completed a four – year Associate Diploma in Landscape Design from Ryde Horticultural College.
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