Jonathan James Irwin is an English television presenter, writer, lecturer, and business and property expert.
Jonnie Irwin bio and career
Irwin was raised in the Leicestershire hamlet of Bitteswell on a small farm. Irwin attended Lutterworth Community College and Secondary School. He graduated with a degree in estate administration from Birmingham City University.
He has Celtic ancestry. Irwin spent three years as an associate director at business transfer experts Christie & Co before working for Colliers International. Irwin and co-host Jasmine Harman were chosen from hundreds of applicants in 2004 to deliver Channel 4’s program A Place in the Sun – Home or Away, and have shot more than 200 episodes across Great Britain.
Additionally, the show is aired daily on More4, Discovery Real Time, Discovery Travel & Living, and on channels in Europe and other countries like New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. Irwin claimed in 2022 that the makers of A Place in the Sun fired him as a presenter after 18 years because a cancer diagnosis had made him feel “really low.”
In addition, Irwin hosts the BBC’s Escape to the Country and To Purchase or Not to Buy. Irwin also hosted the Escape to the Perfect Town spin-off of Escape to the Country.
Irwin helped people leave their lives in the UK and purchase a business in his own show, Dream Lives for Sale, which was broadcast on Sky 1 in January 2011. He started a new show in late 2011 called The Renovation Game, which broadcast on Channel 4 on weekday mornings.
Jonnie Irwin children
He and his wife, Jessica Holmes have three sons. Irwin and his family moved to the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted in 2018 and then to the Newcastle upon Tyne area.