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Jasmine Birtles | |
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Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, TV presenter, entrepreneur |
Jasmine Birtles is a British financial and business journalist, author and presenter. [1]
She has made appearances on several British television programmes, principally addressing financial and property matters from the point of view of the consumer.
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Birtles attended Brighton and Hove High School. She won a scholarship to read English at Christ's College, Cambridge, where she was a member of Cambridge Footlights and performed with the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society. After university performed briefly as an actress and toured with a production of Don't Dress for Dinner . She occasionally performs stand-up comedy. She once compered her own comedy club, The Giggling Elk.
Birtles presented debt documentary The Insider for Channel 4. She is a financial commentator for This Morning , Good Morning Britain, BBC News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff . She is also a regular guest on radio programmes including the BBC's You and Yours , [2] Steve Wright in the Afternoon, [3] Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and BBC local radio and commercial stations.
Birtles has monthly money columns in Reader's Digest , [4] Closer magazine, and Prima Baby. She has written for a number of other newspapers and magazines in the past. In addition, she has written several e-books, and almost forty physical books, including the best seller A Little Book of Abuse (2000, Boxtree) and her latest publication Beat the Banks! [5] (2010, Vermilion). Other titles include: [6]
As a public speaker [7] Birtles has spoken at conferences for a wide variety of companies and organisations. [8]
She performed a one-woman show – a humorous take on money management – at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005, [9] called "How to be Rich Without Really Trying".
Birtles was on the expert panel for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine , is a columnist for Family Traveler and regularly writes about travel on Moneymagpie.com.