Jamie Durie

Jamie Paul Durie (born 3 June 1970) is an Australian horticulturalist and landscape designer, furniture designer, television host, television producer, and author of eleven books on landscape architecture, garden design and lifestyle.

Durie was the television host of the 2008 Australian lifestyle program The Outdoor Room, broadcast on the Seven Network. He hosted the design makeover show HGTV Showdown in 2009. Durie hosted the US PBS series The Victory Garden from 2007 to 2010. The show is PBS network's longest-running gardening TV series.

In November 2024,Growing Home with Jamie Durie aired on Channel 7, a series in which Durie documented making his family home sustainable and off-grid.

Early life Durie was born in Manly, New South Wales, and spent his formative years living in Tom Price, Western Australia. His maternal grandmother, Daphne de Zylva, was born in Sri Lanka and met his English grandfather in the air force during World War II. They moved to Australia in the 1950s.

Having left high-school in Brisbane at age 15, he tried his hand at cabinetmaking and modeled beachwear part-time. Durie entered the entertainment industry in his teens as an exotic dancer in the all-male revue troupe, Manpower Australia, with whom he toured for seven years. At age 26, he completed a four-year horticultural and landscape design course.

Landscape design and television hosting Durie founded the landscape design company, Patio Landscape Architecture and Design, in 1998. He then hosted the TV series Backyard Blitz and The Block.

The same year, Durie hosted Australia's Best Backyards on the Seven Network. The show was a lifestyle garden program, similar to Backyard Blitz on the Nine Network. Also in 2007, Durie appeared lifestyle segments with Winfrey, on the Oprah Winfrey Network (U.S. TV channel), whom he credits as giving him his US TV breakthrough. Following these appearances, Durie relocated to the US.

Durie hosted the US PBS series The Victory Garden from 2007 to 2010.

In 2019, Durie joined Australia's Seven Network reality renovation series House Rules as a new judge.

In August 2022, Durie was revealed to be the Tiger on the fourth season of Network 10's The Masked Singer Australia.

In November 2024 Growing Home with Jamie Durie is Jamie Durie's latest television program, aired on Channel 7 and 7plus. This four-part series chronicles the three-year process of designing and building a "sustainable, off-grid" family home.

Furniture design and merchandise lines In 2010, Durie's company Patio Landscape Architecture and Design was renamed Durie Design, committed to not just rejuvenating the existing gardens, but offering new outdoor destinations for the clients, and with an emphasis on furniture design.

In 2008, Durie won a gold medal at Britain's prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in Chelsea, London. A team of 22 workers built the AU$800,000, 200sqm celebration of the Kimberley landscape, called Australian Garden and designed by Durie, in 16 days. Australian Garden won one of the eight Gold Medals given in the Show Garden category. All the materials were shipped from Australia.

In 2012, Durie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the environment, and charity work.

The next year, Durie began collaborating with the Italian luxury furniture brand Natuzzi Group Riva 1920. Durie and Riva 1920 launched a bespoke collection of five furniture pieces, including the Tubular dining table, to widespread acclaim at Milan Furniture Fair 2013. The Tubular table and chair (the range also includes bookshelves) and Durie's Bungalow range were both finalists in the New York Design Awards, announced in Manhattan on 20 May 2014, for Product Design Category, Furniture Indoor & Outdoor. Durie has been a dedicated supporter of Tour de Cure, frequently serving as an MC at their gala events in recent years. In March 2024, Durie took on a huge personal challenge, cycling over 1,200 km in just one week as part of the Tour de Cure Signature Tour to raise vital funds for cancer research, prevention, and support initiatives across Australia.

Personal life Durie owns properties on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, and in Los Angeles. They have two children together.

Additionally, Durie has an adult daughter who lives in Los Angeles named Taylor, from his previous relationship with Michelle Glennock. Durie says, "We go camping together, surfing and bike riding". Durie describes his life as "I want simply to find more balance and walk down the little path of self discovery...".

Filmography Television