Bobby Brazier

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Bobby Brazier
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Brazier in 2022
Born
Bobby Jack Brazier

(2003-06-02) 2 June 2003 (age 21)
London, England
Occupations
  • Actor
  • model
Years active2003–2010, 2019–present
Parent(s) Jade Goody
Jeff Brazier
Modeling information
Height6 ft 1.5–2 in [1]
Hair colorBrown [2]
Eye colorGreen [2]
AgencyUnsigned Group

Bobby Jack Brazier (born 2 June 2003) is an English actor and model. Present in the public eye from birth due to the popularity of his mother Jade Goody, he was frequently featured in the media throughout the formative years of his life until Goody's death in 2009.

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At 16, Brazier began his modelling career, and made his catwalk debut at Milan Fashion Week in 2020. He rose to prominence after joining the cast of the BBC One soap opera EastEnders as Freddie Slater in 2022, which earned him a National Television Award. He was a contestant on the 21st series of the dancing show Strictly Come Dancing in 2023, and finished as a runner-up.

Early life

Bobby Jack Brazier was born on 2 June 2003 at Portland Hospital in Westminster, London. [3] [4] He is the son of television personality Jade Goody and television presenter Jeff Brazier. [3] [4] His maternal grandfather was half Jamaican. [5] Due to the popularity of his mother, Brazier was in the public eye from birth and appeared in the occasional episode of her Sky Living reality series from 2005 until her death from cervical cancer in 2009. [6] [7] [8] After her death, him and his younger brother Freddie were kept out of the spotlight following the high media presence whilst Goody was alive and during the final months of her life. [9] Due to high media attention, they did not attend her funeral. [10] Brazier only made a single appearance in the 2010 documentary titled Jade: A Year Without Her. [7]

Brazier grew up with his brother in Harlow, Essex, [9] raised by their father with the help of his mother and later his future wife Kate Dwyer. [6] [8] He attended a private school in London up until year seven, before moving with his family to Brighton where he was enrolled at a state school. [6] At the state school, Brazier experienced bullying, and after a year, the family moved back to London, where he returned to the private school and completed his GCSE exams. [6] While modelling, he worked at a milkshake café, [1] and was briefly a social media apprentice. [7] He also played football. [7]

Career

Modelling

Brazier began his modelling career in 2019 at the age of 16 after he was scouted by Cesar Perin whilst walking down the street, and signed to his modelling agency Unsigned Group. [9] [11] In January 2020, he made his catwalk debut, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week. [12] The same year, he modelled for Tommy Hilfiger at London Fashion Week, [13] and walked Paris Fashion Week. [9] In 2021, he appeared in a fashion film for GCDS, [14] and featured in the pre-autumn campaign for Bianca Saunders and the autumn/winter campaign for Richard Quinn. [15] [16] He walked the spring/summer 2022 fashion show for Helen Anthony and the autumn/winter 2024 fashion show for Holzweiler. [17]

As a model, Brazier featured in editorials for the magazines British GQ , Lewis, MMScene, Odda, Schön! and Tings, [2] [17] and covered the magazines 10 Men Magazine, Dust Magazine, Grazia UK and Man About Town . [17] [18]

EastEnders

In 2022, Brazier made his acting debut in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders , taking over the role of Freddie Slater, the son of established character Little Mo Mitchell (Kacey Ainsworth), after the character had last been seen as a baby. [19] [20] The show's executive producer Chris Clenshaw, who came across Brazier's profile on social media, said of his casting: "There was some of what I saw in Bobby that I thought would be perfect for Freddie. His energy, his twinkle, his spiritual side. So then we brought Bobby in to audition along with some others and he just blew us away with his performance. He is Freddie Slater." [21] The role won him the Rising Star at the 28th National Television Awards. [22] Brazier also portrayed Freddie in the 2024 spin-off web miniseries The Point of Mo Return . [23]

Strictly Come Dancing

In 2023, Brazier competed in the 21st series of the dancing show Strictly Come Dancing . [24] Together with his dancing partner Dianne Buswell, they finished as runners-up in the final. [25] He also took part in the 2024 Strictly Come Dancing Live! UK tour. [26] Following his stint on the show, pop culture commentator Nick Ede named Brazier "a rare breed of talent" and compared him to Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles. He opined that both Brazier and Styles "got that look that's appealing to young people, appealing to the mothers, appealing to the guys, they don't really alienate anybody and they have that unique ability to make people happy." [27] In a similar tone, journalist Lucie Cave expressed that "there's a real purity and humility about him that is rare in a young star," and journalist Jacques Peretti said that "what's appealing about him is what appealed about his mother, which is a sort of ingenue innocence." [8] Elaborating on this, public relations expert Mark Borkowski commented that he has "'the suff' – a natural ability to communicate." He said that while "other people have to have it trained in them, and of course we see that inauthenticity," Brazier is "this slightly gauche, naive and beautifully optimistic human being, and people find him naturalistic ... He's gloriously honest at this stage." [8]

Other endeavours

Alongside his father, Brazier appeared in the 2023 Stand Up to Cancer special of the reality series Celebrity Gogglebox , [28] and joined its main cast the following year. [29] He played for England in the 2024 edition of the annual charity football match Soccer Aid raising money for UNICEF. [30] Brazier is set to star in the upcoming Paramount+ thriller series Curfew . [31]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2005 Jade's Salon Himself [7]
2006 Just Jade [7]
2008Living With… Jade [32]
2009Jade: Bride to Be [33]
Jade's Wedding [7]
2010Jade: A Year Without Her [7]
2021 GCDS: Fall/Winter 2021 at Milan Fashion Week Video short; model [14]
2022–present EastEnders Freddie Slater Regular role [34]
2023 Strictly Come Dancing Himself Series 21 contestant [35]
2023–present Celebrity Gogglebox 2023 Stand Up to Cancer special
Series 6 regular		 [29] [28]
2024 The Point of Mo Return Freddie SlaterEastEnders spin-off web miniseries; 6 episodes [23]
TBA Curfew JamesUpcoming series [31]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2023 National Television Awards Rising StarEastEndersWon [22]
Inside Soap Awards Best NewcomerShortlisted [36]
Best Comic PerformanceLonglisted [37]

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