After creating comedy videos during the pandemic that reached 1 million people, the artist previously known as Jimmy Giggle is now hosting an ABC series about historic Australian moments recreated in miniature.
It’s rarely a straight road, the one that leads to celebrity status, but Jimmy Rees’ fame highway has surely been bendier than most. There are probably still Australians of a certain age who know Rees best as Jimmy Giggle, the pyjama-clad pal of a puppet owl in that smash hit of the pre-school set,. On the other hand, nowadays there would be many among his new battalion of more mature fans who know nothing of his toddler-pleasing antics.
“And we had to deal with being in lockdown. I was confused about to what to do, I was bored basically, and I was like, this is my chance to make some silly videos for the internet, this is something I’ve wanted to do. I wouldn’t have been able to do the stuff I do now when I was Jimmy Giggle, so I thought this is my time.
And yet his soaring fame online has led him to don that hat again: having moved from kids’ television to grown-ups’ internet, he’s back on Aunty, now as Jimmy Rees rather than Giggle, presenting, a documentary series about the curious community of passionate artists who dedicate their lives to recreating important moments in Australian history in miniature.
“I think they wanted someone to go along on that journey, learning about it all and having fun. Sometimes the guys in the series get quite serious because they’re building this amazing model with so much intricate detail, and you could get bogged down in, that doesn’t look right, this doesn’t look right.
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