Brazier’s father, Stephen Faldo, was the skipper of the pleasure boat Marchioness, which sank on the River Thames in 1989 after being hit by a dredger, killing him as well as 50 others.

In 2001, Brazier took part in the Channel 4 reality television show Shipwrecked, in which he and fifteen other people had to stay on a tropical island without any creature comforts. This series was noted for a number of conflicts and factional squabbles during which Brazier appeared to be an amiable and conciliatory figure. After this, Brazier took part in the ITV programme Simply the Best, as well as presenting the programmes Dirty Laundry and Big Brother Panto with June Sarpong.

In 2003, Brazier appeared in Celebrity Wife Swap with then-girlfriend Jade Goody, opposite Charles Ingram. In September 2004, Brazier won the Channel 5 reality TV show The Farm and also appeared in the Living TV programme I’m Famous and Frightened!.

Brazier has two sons from his relationship with Big Brother contestant Jade Goody: Bobby Jack (b. 2003) and Freddie (b. 2004). He and Goody appeared in Wife Swap in 2003 and Brazier was occasionally seen in Goody’s Living shows. When Goody died in 2009, he did not attend her funeral, but instead took their sons away from the media spotlight to stay with relatives in Adelaide, Australia.

Brazier performed as Aladdin in the pantomime at Chatham, Kent in 2005 and 2006, competed in the ITV wrestling competition Celebrity Wrestling and presented on Challenge.

In 2006, Brazier presented the revival of the CITV programme Finders Keepers. Brazier was a panellist on the now defunct ITV talk show Loose @5.30!, a spin-off of Loose Women and has also appeared in The Match and Celebrity Soccer Six on Sky1, where he played for England, as well as appearing on Call Me a Cabbie with Carol Thatcher and Janet Street Porter. Brazier has also been a This Morning “showbiz” presenter.

In November 2006, Brazier joined the presenting team of ITV2’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! NOW! with Kelly Osbourne in Australia and Mark Durden-Smith hosting at the London Studios. On 16 December 2006, Brazier was a guest reporter on The X Factor final live from contestant Ray Quinn’s home town of Liverpool, and live from contestants Same Difference’s home town of Portsmouth on 15 December 2007. He was the guest reporter at JLS’s home town on 13 December 2008 and at Stacey Solomon’s home town of Dagenham on 12 December 2009.

In 2010, Brazier was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch, and on 17 December 2010, Brazier presented a documentary, My Brother and Me, which was broadcast on BBC Three. From August until December 2011, Brazier co-presented OK! TV on Channel 5 with Jenny Frost.

Brazier began dating former glamour model Nicola Tappenden in December 2011, but they broke up in March 2013 and Tappenden moved out of Brazier’s home.

On 1 October 2017, Brazier got engaged to his girlfriend Kate Dwyer. The couple married in Portugal on 15 September 2018.