1. Jamie Alexander East was born on 27 March 1974 and is an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and singer-songwriter.
12 Facts About Jamie East
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Jamie East was the lead singer of the band The Beekeepers, who signed to Beggars Banquet in the late 1990s.
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Jamie East was the creator of entertainment website Holy Moly and ran it until 2012, when he sold it to UK Television Producers Endemol.
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Jamie East began his TV career presenting Big Brother spin-off show Big Brother's Bit on the Side alongside Emma Willis and Alice Levine from the show's revival on Channel 5 in 2011 until January 2013.
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In 2015, Thronecast went live every Monday night, and Jamie was joined by Sue Perkins.
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In October 2016, Jamie East co-presented Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live on the W TV channel, alongside Christine Lampard and Matt Richardson.
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Jamie East left the mid-morning show in early January 2018.
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Since 2018, Jamie East presented various documentary series for the station including 'Virgin Radio Classic Album' and covered drivetime for Matt Richardson.
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Since late 2017, Jamie East has covered shows on national speech station talkRadio.
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In September 2018, Jamie East moved to Sunday afternoons and continued to regularly cover other shows.
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In late September 2020, Jamie East stepped down from talkRADIO, subsequently indicating that his decision was in part sparked by a segment broadcast earlier in the month, which subsequently went viral online, in which Mark Dolan cut up a face covering, whilst calling for the UK to 'get back to normal' in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jamie East is the son of former Tiswas presenter Trevor East.