Jamie, born on 3rd June 1970 in 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. 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 between 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. 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. Jamie joined Backyard Blitzas host when it premiered in 2000 and has also been a team member of Nine’s hugely successful Renovation Rescues.