[2] Campbell attended St John's Catholic School from 2005 to 2011 and studied his A-Levels at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College.

In 2011 Campbell contacted a number of film production companies, proposing to capture the story of his journey to high school prom in drag.

[3] Director, Jenny Popplewell,[4] alongside Firecracker Films[5] produced Jamie: Drag Queen at 16[6] for BBC Three as a part of their Extraordinary Me series.

West End Producer Nica Burns saw the show and brought it to the Apollo Theatre in November 2017 where it ran until September 2021.

[citation needed] New Regency and Film4 Productions produced the film and the distribution rights were originally with Disney via their acquisition of 20th Century Studios.