Career
Brendan Jones began working in radio on the community radio station 2BCR Bankstown for six months. In 1990 he scored a night job at 6KA Karratha, Western Australia, followed by mornings and afternoons at 2NM Muswellbrook and then afternoons at i98FM Wollongong, both in New South Wales. He also hosted a national countdown show called Planet Rock.
Jones is currently presenting breakfast radio on WSFM 101.7, with Amanda Keller.
The show became the number 1 FM station in 2005 with 8.9% audience share defeating Merrick and Rosso. On his first day at WSFM he received more than eighty complaints after an ill-fated call to the terrorist hotline, it was later proven that Jones had fabricated the call in an "Orwellian" stunt.
Jones makes a regular appearance on the daytime television chat show Mornings with Sonia and David and has hosted Office the Record on the World Movies channel, Australia"s Greatest Footy Fan and Do it Green. He has also appeared on The Trophy Room, Campaign, The Today show and The Morning Show on 7, as well as Joker Poker, The Footy Show, The Project and the popular culture show 20 to 1.
Jones had a supporting role in the comedy series Swift and Shift Couriers and featured in the television Series Housos as a journalist, a role he also played in Fat Pizza.
Jones is currently a co-host of Temporary Australians, a motorcycling show on TVS (Series 1) and ONE (Series 2), and writes a monthly column for Live to Ride magazine. During October 2013, he participated as a contestant during the thirteenth season of Dancing with the Stars. He was eliminated on the fifth week with a score of 24.
In 2014, Jones was featured on 7mate"s successful television series Bogan Hunters as one of eight celebrity judges.
Later that year, Jones scored a role in the motion picture Fat Pizza versus Housos. The film will be shown in Australian cinemas from November 27, 2014 onwards.