Jamie has a reputation as a young and cheeky, antiques, collectables
celeb memorabilia and ‘de-clutter’ presenter/expert.
- 10 years of network TV series presenting including:
- BBC2’s The Life Laundry & The Antiques Show
- ITV1’s This Morning & Everything Must Go!
- He is
currently enjoying a weekly slot on GMTV.
- Hundreds of informative magazine articles & a two books - Make a Mint!: the ultimate guide to buying and selling collectables (2007)
and The Haynes Collectables Manual (2009).
- 500 weekly national newspaper columns including:
- 9 years at The Sunday Mirror & 1 year at The Daily Mail
- jamiebreese.co.uk ranks as No.1 in the world in a google search
for key terms eg. ‘collectables expert’/’memorabilia expert’
- Consultant and writer for BBC Homes & Antiques and
eBay.co.uk’s appointed collectables spokesperson in 2007
Jamie’s antiques background is with his family who operated from London’s famous
Portobello Road. As a teenager he set up on his own at Camden Stables market.
After achieving a first class honours in Art and Design, his TV break came with BBC2’s
primetime series The Antiques Show. Jamie went on to present for Channel 4’s
Collectors’ Lot; HTV/Meridian’s Antiques Trail and Trade-It. He was the weekly
collectables expert on Five’s Breakfast News. Numerous other stints have included
BBC1’s flagships The Generation Game and Blue Peter.
Jamie is best known for ITV1’s Everything Must Go!. This is presenter led and features
families selling up and moving on: Jamie hosts, values their worldly goods and helps
sell them in a madcap house sale and later, an auction. Prior to this, he co-presented
BBC2’s primetime series The Life Laundry and has added ‘clutter-busting’ to his skills.
In this series Jamie helped individuals deal with hoarding issues. Jamie also co-devised
and hosted the regular 23-minute live slot - ‘Cash or Trash’ - on ITV1’s This Morning.
For eight years, Jamie (also known as James) has been penning the weekly antiques column Treasure Hunters for the Sunday Mirror. He is a writer for BBC Homes & Antiques and Antiques and Collectables Magazine. He also writes for Woman’s Weekly, Moneywise, Moneyweek, Prudential, Yours, Chat and Heyday magazines. He has written for numerous other papers, magazines and websites and is an auctioneer/judge at charity events. He judged Corgi’s 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector Competition and wrote/fronted eBay’s ‘eBay Your Streets’, ‘Hidden Treasures’ and ‘2007 Xmas Investment Gifts’ campaigns. Jamie is a ‘generalist’ expert with many special interests including eBay, celeb, rock and pop and film memorabilia.
Prior to the Mirror he was the antiques expert for the Daily Mail with the successful weekly column Treasure Seekers, and a dynamic weekly competition (which he devised): TV Treasure Hunt. This attracted hundreds of thousands of entries.
Jamie’s other specialist interests include history…and filmmaking/reviewing: an area in which he has an active involvement with several credits as writer, producer and director. He has presented the four-part filmmaking series Brief Encounters and film reviews for The List, both for ITV West. In 2008, Jamie hosted four fashion shows including Miss England: Miss Bath and The Bath Fashion Show. Jamie also organises networking events and fashion shows – The First Fling being his first.
Jamie has written, produced and directed a 35mm drama about interwar Germany. Benjamin’s Struggle had its world premiere at BAFTA in March 2006, won a key Audience Award and was been chosen by the British Council to represent British Culture Worldwide. Jamie was picked from 12,500 people worldwide to participate in Spielberg’s US network TV series On The Lot. He now has a deal with Dreamworks.
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