Jamie Durie
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Jamie Durie is the host of Australian television lifestyle show Backyard Blitz. As of July 2006, he is also co-hosting Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice.
He also hosted the Australian version of The Block and Renovation Rescue, all shows by the Nine Network.
Jamie Durie is also the ambassador for Plan (aid organisation) Australia. A television special was screened with Durie in this role as he visited families in Uganda affected by HIV.
Prior to his television presenting career, Durie was a member of Manpower Australia, a highly popular touring male striptease act similar to the Chippendales. In 1994 he posed nude for the art magazine Black+White alongside former fiancee Terasa Livingstone. On a special presentation for Cirque du Soleil's Australian tour of Alegría for the Nine Network, he revealed that he previously auditioned for the troupe but did not get in.