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Shepherd was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales.
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Jamie Shepherd
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Shepherd currently works at Independent Television Good Morning Britain, Independent Television News and Independent Television News London. At 18 years of age, the former Ysgol Eifionydd, Porthmadog, pupil started reading bilingual Welsh news bulletins for radio stations Heart Cymru and Heart North Wales Coast. During his degree at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Shepherd was freelancing at Dee 106.3 in Chester, Brmb in Birmingham, Heart 100.7 in Birmingham and Heart Radio in North Wales and Cheshire.
Shepherd then went on to reads the news at Global Radio, Leicester Square, London for the Heart Radio Network, LBC, XFM, Choice FM and the Gold Radio Network.
He was the youngest national newsreader in the United Kingdom at the age of 19. Jamie also worked at Independent Television London as a producer and reporter.
In 2008, Jamie was selected as a news reporter for British Broadcasting Corporation News 24 through the Blast scheme. Shepherd has appeared on Channel 4, E4, British Broadcasting Corporation News 24, Five News, S4C, and Independent Television.
