Nigel Barker Biography
Nigel Barker is a reality TV show host, fashion photographer, author, spokesperson, filmmaker, and former model from England. He is most known for his appearances as a judge and photographer on the reality show America’s Next Top Model and as the host of the American series The Face.
How old is Nigel Barker? – Age
He is 51 years old as of 27 April 2023. He was born in 1972 in London, United Kingdom.
Nigel Barker Parents – Education
His mother, a Sri Lankan, was a former Miss Sri Lanka candidate before moving to the UK. She was instrumental in instilling in him an appreciation for the modeling industry as he grew up, and she has indicated that her modeling success enabled her to relocate her family to the United Kingdom. Barker grew up in a family of five siblings from three marriages and lived there until he was 18 years old. He went to Bryanston School, a boarding school, where he studied biology, chemistry, and physics.
Nigel Barker Wife
Barker has been married to model and CoverGirl ambassador Cristen Chin since 1999. The couple met in Milan through Cristen’s agent, and it was love at first sight for Barker. Their two children, Jack and Jasmine, and their dog, Memphis, live in New York City.
Nigel Barker Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $45 Million.
Nigel Barker Next Top Model
Barker served as a judge on Tyra Banks’ reality show America’s Next Top Model for 17 seasons. Barker says that after his stint on the reality show’s judging panel, he’ll have more time to focus on other projects, such as a cosmetics brand, a skincare line for men, and a return to television. He also served as a judge for the Miss America Pageant in 2007 and the Miss Universe Pageant in 2012. He is the executive producer of VH1’s photography-based reality show The Shot. Barker took over as presenter of The Face in 2013.
Barker appeared as a photographer on Canada’s Next Top Model’s third cycle and in Episode 10 of New Zealand’s Next Top Model’s first cycle. He was featured as a guest judge and photographer on Mexico’s Next Top Model’s first cycle, as well as on Benelux’s Next Top Model’s second cycle. He served as a judge on Holland’s Next Top Model (cycles 10-12) in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He was a judge on the inaugural season of Curvy Supermodel, a spin-off of Holland’s Next Top Model, in 2018.
Nigel Barker Career
Barker intended to continue his studies in medicine, but his mother entered him in The Clothes Show’s televised model search. He was a contestant on the show, which launched his modeling career. For around ten years, he modeled in London, Milan, Paris, and New York City. He noticed as a young model that the fashion industry was changing, that “models were shrinking and a 6’4″ well-built male model was not selling.” He switched from model to fashion photographer in 1996.
Barker founded StudioNB in Manhattan’s now-fashionable Meatpacking District. He has photographed editorials for GQ, Interview, Seventeen, Town & Country, Lucky, Tatler, and Cover, as well as advertisements for Land’s End, Leviev, Nicole Miller, Nine West, Ted Baker, Jordache, Pamella Rolland, Beefeater, Ford, and Sony.
His directing debut was A Sealed Fate?, a documentary he also produced. It was followed by Generation Free and Haiti: Hunger and Hope, both of which collaborate with The Humane Society of the United States, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the Edeyo Foundation to raise awareness of their respective concerns. Barker is also a Make-A-Wish Foundation celebrity ambassador, Do Something, The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up program, and Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign shooter.
Barker is a representative for conspicuous brands, including Microsoft, Sony, Peak White Strips, and Nine West. He showed up close by Justin Timberlake and Peyton Monitoring in Sony’s 2010 public promotion crusade. He has done TV and element film appearances, occasion facilitating, and introducing. Barker showed up as a VIP judge for the 2008 Miss America Expo and had appearance jobs on a few television series, including The Youthful and the Fretful, Favored, Stylista, Style Her Popular, and Terrible Betty, as well as an appearance job in the component film Arthur (2011), with Jennifer Collect, Russell Brand, Scratch Nolte and Helen Mirren.
He has facilitated and introduced on numerous occasions including the 2007, 2008, and 2010 Emmy grants on Fox Telecom Organization, the 2008 and 2009 Practice Environmental Awareness Affairs in New York City, the Beginning Honors, and the 2010 Worldwide Style Grants. In 2017 Barker turned out to be New Zealand winery Invivo’s true “glambassador”. Barker distributed a book on magnificence, Nigel Barker’s Excellence Condition: Uncovering a Superior and More Lovely You, delivered in September 2010 from Abrams Picture.
In 2009 Barker opened a photography display, Haiti: Yearning and Trust, at the Milk Exhibition in New York City. His work in Haiti procured him an Accomplish Something with Style Grant designation from the VH1 Accomplish Something Grants. The entertainment ceremony, delivered by Vh1, is coordinated by Follow Through with Something, an association for youngsters.
Barker collaborated with Taylor Quick to shoot a photobook of her named 8 hours which made its presentation in November 2012. In September 2013 Barker shot Nadia Lacka, Liliane Ferrarezi, Jordan, and Zac Stenmark in ‘Sleep time Stories’ highlighted in the September issue of Numero Russia.
In 2016 he was one of the visitors decided in the last of Miss USA 2016 in T-Portable Field, Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Likewise in 2016, Barker collaborated with Adorama on another web series, “Top Picture Taker”, which drew its motivation from “Top Model”. The season’s victor was Foundation of Workmanship College graduate class Scott Borrero.