27 Facts About JJ Chalmers

John-James Chalmers was born on 20 December 1986 and is a Scottish television presenter and Invictus Games medallist.

JJ Chalmers was injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan in 2011, while serving as a Royal Marine.

JJ Chalmers was born on 20 December 1986 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of John JJ Chalmers, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 2014 to 2015.

JJ Chalmers attended Strathallan School and studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating as a Bachelor of Education.

JJ Chalmers worked as a craft, design and technology teacher at Balerno Community High School in Edinburgh.

JJ Chalmers joined the Royal Marines Reserves whilst working as a teacher.

JJ Chalmers remained in the Royal Marines during his rehabilitation until 2016.

In September 2014, JJ Chalmers was a medal winner in non-amputee cycling for Britain at the Invictus Games.

JJ Chalmers subsequently presented National Paralympic Day for Channel 4, as well as an online show for the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha.

JJ Chalmers featured on The Superhumans Show before travelling to Rio de Janeiro as a presenter for Channel 4's coverage of the 2016 Summer Paralympics, as well as appearing as a guest on The Last Leg series Live from Rio.

Also in 2016 JJ Chalmers was co-commentator of the Lord Mayor's Show on BBC One.

On 21 February 2017, JJ Chalmers began presenting some of the sports segments on the BBC News channel and BBC Breakfast.

JJ Chalmers joined the BBC Sport Team, working as a presenter and reporter on events like the Great North, Great Manchester Run and The London Marathon.

JJ Chalmers joined The One Show as a features reporter.

In 2017 JJ Chalmers began working in radio, as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's, World Para Athletics coverage of London 2017, as well as presenting the Sports Journalists Award nominated radio documentary, To Helmand and Back.

JJ Chalmers ended the year presenting the 2017 Invictus Games, held in Toronto.

Away from sport, JJ Chalmers took part in Pilgrimage: Road to Santiago, where seven celebrities undertook a medieval pilgrimage, across the North of Spain, to see whether it still has relevance today.

JJ Chalmers worked for the BBC on events such as Trooping the Colour and the commemorations to mark the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.

JJ Chalmers narrated Scotland Remembers 100 Years of Armistice, a nationally broadcast service from Glasgow Cathedral.

On 3 September 2020, it was announced that JJ Chalmers would be taking part in the eighteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

JJ Chalmers was eliminated in the quarter finals of the competition, after losing the dance-off to Jamie Laing and Karen Hauer.

In March 2021, the BBC announced that JJ Chalmers would be joining Sarah Moore and Jacqui Joseph as a presenter on Money For Nothing.

On 24 June JJ Chalmers was announced as one of the presenters for BBC coverage of the 2020 Summer Olympics to be held in Tokyo.

JJ Chalmers was coincidentally flown out to Tokyo by the same pilot who flew him home from Afghanistan while Chalmers was in a medically-induced coma.

In early 2022 JJ Chalmers presented Dunkirk: Mission Impossible; a three-part television series focusing on the events of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk.

In November 2022, JJ Chalmers was the anchor presenter for the BBC coverage of the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup.

JJ Chalmers is married to Kornelia; they have a daughter and a son together.