Jamie Curry (born 26 July 1996) is a New Zealand

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, and

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, best known for creating Jamie's World.

Early life

Curry grew up in Taradale and attended Sacred Heart College, which she graduated from in 2014.

Career

She began creating Jamie's World videos in 2012; her first video was a parody music video, to

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's song "

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". By 2013, she was reaching an audience of 7 million people per week. She co-authored a book with Alex Casey, ''They Let Me Write A Book!: Jamie’s World'', which was published in 2015. She was nominated for Favorite Aussie/Kiwi Internet Sensation in the

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. In 2016, she played Becky in New Zealand comedy television programme ''Funny Girls''. In 2017, she published a series of videos called ''Jamie's World on Ice'', which were filmed during a trip to

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in November 2016. Produced and directed by Damian Christie, it consists of four episodes and two special features, all but one of which were published on her YouTube channel. The four episodes and the remaining special feature were published on

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on 12 May 2017. She appeared on a celebrity "All-Star" episode of ''

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'' on 26 April 2017.

Personal life

In 2015, she moved from her family home in Napier to Auckland. On 24 June 2018, she published a video announcing that she was engaged to a woman.

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