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James Rees; better known under the stage name Jimmy Giggle, is an Australian children’s entertainer and host of the ABC children’s programme Giggle and Hoot. In early 2019 Rees competed on Season 16 of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, where Rees was paired with Alexandra Vladimirov. Rees made the top 5 of the contest before pulling out due to medical issues with his infant son Mack. Rees provided an update of Mack in the following week advising his son was recovering well.

Personal life
Rees was born in Victoria, Australia, and moved to the Central Coast at age 22 to star as “Jimmy Giggle” in the ABC children’s programme Giggle and Hoot. Rees is married to his long term partner Tori in 2013 and they have 3 boys, Lenny, Vinny and Mack. Rees is known to be close friends of fellow TV presenter Rove McManus and social media personality Bradley Kearns.

Career
Rees has been the host of the Australian ABC children’s programme Giggle and Hoot since 2009. In the programme, Jimmy Giggle (James Rees) is shown to enjoy mending objects, although he relies on a "problematic magic button" that never works. He is portrayed as having a brilliant talent in creating new things out of regular items. He also plays several musical instruments in the programme, including the ukulele, double bass, baritone saxophone, piano and guitar. It was reported that Rees beat out 5,000 other actors to win the role, and moved to Central Coast from his home town in Victoria for the role. Rees competed in the 16th season of the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Alexandra Vladimirov. Rees made the top 5 of the contest before having to withdraw due to medical issues with his infant son Mack. During the Dancing with the Stars competition Rees scored best dancer in his renditions of the Foxtrot and Salsa performed to “Hold my girl” – George Ezra and "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" – Pitbull respectively, and won the second week of the competition with his rendition of the Jive performed to "Don't Stop Me Now" – Queen. Rees was also a member of the winning team “La La Land” of the group dance with fellow competitors Courtney Act, Jett Kenny and Michelle Bridges. In July 2019 Rees is scheduled to appeared in a Sydney only Ozpanto production of Jack and the beanstalk staring as “Silly Billy”, alongside fellow Australian actors Peter Rowsthorn and Luke Joslin Rees has also made appearance on a number of Australia TV programmes including JuicedTV in 2015 and Whovians in 2017.