April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
Phil Jamieson of the production in 2018. In March 2002, Jamieson met Julie, his partner, at a Grinspoon performance in Brisbane. Julie had been a runway model and appeared in ads and TV commercials—by 2007, the couple had two children, and by January 2014, the couple had been married for seven years. As of February 2014, Jamieson resides in Port Macquarie, Australia, is an avid South Sydney Rabbitohs supporter and is the team’s number-two ticket holder. In February 2007, Jamieson attended the Odyssey House drug detoxification unit in Sydney, Australia, to overcome his addiction to crystal methamphetamine, also known as "ice". Jamieson