Freddy Brazier

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Freddy Brazier
Born (2004-09-18) 18 September 2004 (age 20)
Harlow, Essex, England
Occupations
  • Model
  • television personality
Years active2021–present
Television Celebrity Race Across the World
Parent(s) Jade Goody
Jeff Brazier
Relatives Bobby Brazier (brother)
Modeling information
Hair colorBlonde
Eye colorHazel
AgencyUnsigned Group

Freddy Brazier (born 18 September 2004) is an English model and television personality. The son of Jeff Brazier and Jade Goody, he made appearances in his mother's reality series as child before beginning his modelling career in 2021. In 2024, he appeared on Celebrity Race Across the World . [1] [2]

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Early life

Freddy Brazier was born on 18 September 2004 at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex. [3] [4] [5] He is the youngest son of Jeff Brazier, a television presenter, and Jade Goody, a television personality who was known for appearing on the reality series Big Brother . [6] [7] [8] His older brother Bobby is an actor and model, known for his role as Freddie Slater in the BBC soap opera EastEnders . [9] [10] [11] Brazier and his brother are of English heritage on his father's side, while his mother was of Jamaican and English heritage. [12] [13] Their mother died on 22 March 2009 from cervical cancer. [14] [15] [16] Brazier and his brother did not attend Goody's funeral because of the high media attention. [17] Brazier was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at the age of 10. [18]

Career

Brazier began appearing on television prior to his first birthday, with him and his brother appearing sporadically in their mother's Sky reality series Jade's Salon (2005). [19] They later went on to appear in occasional episodes of Goody's other series Just Jade (2006), Living With… Jade (2008) and Jade's Wedding (2009), and in the posthumous series Jade: A Year Without Her. [20]

Brazier began his modelling career in 2021, at the age of 16, after being was signed to Unsigned Group, the same modelling agency as his brother. [21] [22] He appeared in his first photoshoot with Hero magazine in June of that year, in which he was photographed by Yann Faucher. [23] [24]

Brazier made several appearances in the audience of Strictly Come Dancing when his brother was a contestant on the twenty-first series, as well as various video messages. [25] [26] [27] [28]

In 2024, Brazier took part in the second series of Celebrity Race Across the World with his father. [29] [30] [31] During the show, he spoke about the loss of his mother as well as living with ADHD. [32] [33] [34] Brazier said he hoped his time on the show would help him "find himself". [35] [36]

Filmography

As himself
YearTitleNotesRef.
2005 Jade's Salon Recurring role [37]
2006 Just Jade Recurring role [38]
2008Living With... JadeRecurring role [39]
2009Jade's WeddingRecurring role [40]
2010Jade: A Year Without HerRecurring role [41]
2023 Strictly Come Dancing Audience member; series 21 [42]
2024 Celebrity Race Across the World Contestant; series 2 [30]

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