All That Glitters 2022 contestants: Who is competing in the BBC jewelry show?
ALL That Glitters is back for a new series on BBC Two with the aim of finding Britain's best jeweller.
Season two sees eight contestants hoping to impress the team of judges.
Who are the All That Glitters 2022 contestants?
All That Glitters is back and on the hunt for the UK’s next up-and-coming jewellery star.
The six-part series takes place in a workshop nestled in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter, home to more jewellers than anywhere else in Europe.
The show sees a batch of talented hopefuls each wanting to impress the judges and prove they’re the next big name in jewellery
Here we take you through who is competing on the 2022 show.
Bonnie, 40
Forty year-old Bonnie is a jeweller and metal technician from Birmingham.
She first started loving jewellery when she was a child and made a pair of earrings with her father for her mother.
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Her husband, who she met at university, is also a jeweller.
Much of Bonnie’s inspiration comes from Birmingham and its buildings, which she incorporates into her pieces.
She one day hopes to own a workshop of her own.
Speaking about being on the show, she said: "I met lots of like-minded people that were creators and designers that were bold and brave.
"What was most enjoyable was finding those kindred spirits and feeling like it's OK to be you, and it's OK to fail as long as you don't focus on those failures.
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"Getting lovely comments was the icing on the cake.
"It’s total validation that I haven’t been spending big chunks of my life doing this for no reason!"
David, 60
David, 60, is a jeweller and stained-glass window maker from Chichester in West Sussex, where he lives with his husband.
His daring sense of style comes from his personality and unique perspective as a colour blind person.
For David, making jewellery is a form of personal expression and his pieces have been described as bold and in your face.
He is often known to sing out loud at his bench and also founded a singing group.
Speaking about being on the show, he said: "I learnt that I could do lots of different things in jewellery making that I had never done before, the vast majority are things that I would never have thought of making.
"The most interesting part is that we were given a restricted amount of materials and we had to work with boundaries, like a limited amount of time.
"I think it's always interesting to have boundaries to work in because invariably the piece that you make is better.
"That was a very different way of working, which was really interesting in itself."
Emma, 45
Jewellery school owner and teacher Emma, 45, is from Leeds.
A ";mumprenuer" with three children and three stepchildren, she has a busy lifestyle.
Her inspirations come from stories she has heard, or the metal itself.
She is fascinated by the way it moves and makes her feel.
Emma has aspirations of building up the jewellery marketplace platform she has created where she and other makers can sell their pieces
Speaking about being on the show, she said: "It has made me try things I hadn’t tried before and I learned a lot about myself.
"It was amazing because for the last ten years I’ve had three kids.
"I’ve juggled family life, kids, running the business, teaching and hadn’t realised that I had lost my creativity a bit. It gave me my creativity back.
"It was a six-month experience and to have that time dedicated to just coming up with new designs, thinking about what I wanted to make, the whole pressure of lots of people are going to see this, it made me give it a lot of thought."
Jack, 35
Jack is a 35-year-old jeweller from Bristol.
His dad is a goldsmith and Jack started to make his own jewellery from the age of nine.
He has spent the last seven years travelling the world and is a big fan of the outdoors and extreme sports like surfing and snowboarding which all provide inspiration for his work.
Jack feels his dyslexia helps his craft and likes natural looking jewellery and to show off as much of the stone as possible.
Speaking about being on the show, he said: "On the show I learned how to look at designer stuff. I was trained as a goldsmith and got stuck in my ways.
"It’s hard to think outside the box when you’re trained like that, but on the show you tackle it in a whole new way.
"During the challenges, we were given briefs and there’s a lot of pressure to do well; it’s about doing something extraordinary, you don’t want to do something simple or what you might usually do.
"Doing that was never going to come easy, it was a big thought process, and you can’t do things in a way in the way I was doing it before."
Nyanda, 49
Goldsmith Nyanda from East London is 49 years old and began her creative journey through sculpting and painting.
She has spent the past 20 years putting hard work into her craft and is inspired by the organic forms within nature; she sees the body as the plinth and jewellery as art.
She hopes to connect with more jewellers through this experience and beyond anything wants to make her mum, who passed away two years ago, proud.
Speaking about being on the show, she said: "I’ve learnt I'm more resilient than I acknowledge, and it taught me to believe in what I do.
"I’m not bothered by opinions as long I'm being authentic to myself; you can't take them on board because they could just throw you off your own course.
"You have to persevere with what you’re doing, because some people might lose heart if someone says your work is rubbish. You have to think, how can I improve?"
Piers, 25
Piers, 25, is a jeweller who works in an antique jewellery store and lives with his wife in Kent.
He can often be seen wearing Victorian style coin rings and chains that have a story.
Piers holds himself to high standards and admits that he would rather melt a piece and present nothing, than show something that he is not 100 per cent happy with.
Speaking about being on the show, he said: "I enjoyed it all really.
"It was quite stressful but I liked being pushed out of my comfort zone.
"At the time, the weirder challenges were really daunting but it was quite satisfying and freeing to make something completely different".
Steve, 29
Jeweller Steve, 29, lives in London with family and his three cats, who he’s obsessed with.
Though he goes by Steve, his birth name is Mustafa and he is a Syrian native - he lived in Syria until he was 20.
When he was displaced during the war he made his way to the Calais Jungle on foot.
It was there he made his first piece of jewellery, from a nail in the camp, which he still wears every day.
He became the unofficial camp jeweller, making jewellery for all his friends.
When he became a resident of the UK, he was introduced to Hatton Garden and now runs a small jewellery business where he sells designs informed by his birth culture and his journey.
Steve still has materials he found in the camp, such as wire, and when he makes gifts for someone special he will include this in the jewellery, to make them feel part of his journey.
Speaking about being on the show, he said: "I enjoyed making a connection with all of the other jewellers.
"I learnt that in order for me to make jewellery I need to be by myself in a quiet place!"
Tianne, 25
Originally from East London, Tianne is a 25 year-old stone setter who lives in Berkshire.
Her dad, a diamond mounter, was a major influence for her, and at the age of 18 she decided she wanted to follow in his footsteps and be a jeweller.
Tianne loves to make mechanical pieces that move and says her pieces are regularly described as flamboyant.
When she’s not at her jewellers bench, she can be found out on the open road on her motorbike.
Speaking about being on the show, she said: "I learnt so much about myself.
"It taught me to be more patient and have more confidence in myself.
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"When the challenges were happening, I thought, I don’t know what I’m doing here - but it meant I needed to be more patient.
"That gave me the chance to have space and time to learn new skills."
