She appeared on the fifth series of The Voice UK, where she was a semi-finalist; having performed a skit during one of the live shows and preferred it to singing, and after a record label deal was not renewed, she became a comedian, where she was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for her tour Is It a Bird?
[1] Gray realised she was transgender while chopping wood in Sweden,[4] having moved there after becoming engaged to a Swedish woman,[5] and came out while accepting a trophy for best original artist at the Essex Entertainment awards while dressed as a cat.
Two more albums followed, The Anti-hero and The Dark Horse and the Underdog, in 2007 and 2008;[9] the latter was launched at the 29 November 2008 at an edition of her show Concerto Diabolus, which was choreographed by Anne-Marie Nicholson and Emma Stade and featured guest spots from acoustic guitarist Ben Sullivan and saxophonist James Ansell.
[16] Gray appeared on the fifth series of The Voice UK in 2016,[17] in so doing becoming its first transgender contestant;[4] she joined Paloma Faith's team, after JJ Soulx withdrew for personal reasons, and ultimately reached the semi-finals.
[26] The comedian Tom Mayhew saw her announcement, and gave Jordan her first stand-up gig;[27] this was performed at The Bill Murray whilst in a dressing gown and surgical bandages, as she had just had breast implants fitted[1] in a process documented for Transformation Street, a 2018 ITV documentary series about patients at the London Transgender Surgery.
[7] She told Gay Star News she wrote it as an attempt to write "a regular tit-for-brains, not some tragic hero", on the grounds that she "was getting bored of seeing [transgender women] represented as either poor suffering saints or hypersexualised villains".
[40] She told The List in August 2022 that ITV had ordered a series of full length episodes,[35] which, if it was made, would be the first British television sitcom to feature a transgender lead actor since Boy Meets Girl, which ended in 2016.
[44] She appeared on Friday Night Live in October 2022,[45] performing "Better Than You" from Is It a Bird?, a song about her experiences as a transgender woman;[46] she attracted attention after she ripped off her jumpsuit, revealing her naked body, and began playing the piano with her penis.
[47] Her original plan, before health and safety intervened, had been even more dramatic; she told The Independent the following month that she wanted to reveal herself by setting alight a suit made of magician's cotton.
[24] While some praised her for highlighting the existence of transgender people[48] and others hailed it the "TV moment of the year",[49] Brendan O'Neill complained of double standards following the perceived cancellation of Jerry Sadowitz for indecent exposure,[50] with Ofcom receiving 1,538 complaints over the performance[51] and Educate and Celebrate removing her as patron.
[21] After Ofcom dismissed its complaints, Gray told The Independent that she performed her "four-minute musical edition of Naked Attraction" because she "thought it might be nice for trans people around the country to see their body represented onscreen, outside of all the porn the world pretends it isn't watching", that "for every death threat in my inbox, there are five letters from grateful parents telling me their trans kid no longer wants to kill themself" and that those calling her a "talentless hack" should "read the room".