Maya Jama
Maya Jama was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom on August 14th, 1994 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 30, Maya Jama biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Maya Indea Jama (born 14 August 1994) is a British television and radio presenter.
She has appeared on several television networks as a current MTV and Channel 4 host, as she co-presented Trending Live! 4Music from 2015 to 2017, as well as co-presenting Cannonball on ITV in 2017.
Jama now hosts a BBC Radio 1 show on Fridays and Saturdays at 10 a.m. and co-presented the MTV show True Love or True Lies with Danny Dyer.
Alice Levine appeared on Channel 4 as The Circle's first series. Jama has now joined long-standing Alan Carr and Adam Hills as co-presenters Stand Up to Cancer.
In summer 2018, Maya unveiled her own line with fashion brand Pretty Little Thing.
In addition to being a global GAP ambassador, she has also worked for Adidas and Burberry as well as being involved in a global GAP campaign.
Jama became the youngest person to host the MOBO Awards in 2017, a feat shared by fellow host Marvin Humes.
Early life
Jama was born and raised in Bristol, where she attended Cotham School. She is of Somali descent on her father's side and Swedish descent on her mother's side. Sadie, her mother, was 19 when she gave birth to Jama, and she named her after Maya Angelou, the US author and poet. Omar is also a girl's brother.
For the majority of her childhood, Jama's father was in jail for violent offences such as pub brawls and wars. Aged 12, she decided not to visit her father in prison and barred him from thinking about him for a decade. In a 2017 interview with The Guardian, she said she didn't realise it was a problem: "It was normal for me." My dad's family was extremely helpful, and they did everything possible to make me and my brother not feel like we were missing out on anything." While filming When Dads Kill in 2017, which was based on young people's experiences, she relented and explored her relationship with her own father before being released from jail in an attempt to get straight answers from him; "nothing he said" and nothing his family told her gave her any honest insight into why she ended up in prison.
Jama is still close to her mother, and on occasion, the two women appear on talk shows together and attend private celebrity functions.
Personal life
Jama lives in West London.
She is a huge football fan and supports both Bristol Rovers and West Ham United.
Jama's tweet when she was 17 appeared on a tweet mocking dark-skinned black women. After being accused of colourism, she apologised, saying that she was "an ignorant, stupid child" when the social media blog was published in 2012.
Jama was in a love with British rapper Stormzy between 2015 and 2019, and their break-up inspired their 2019 album "Lessons." Jama was dating NBA player Ben Simmons in 2021. According to reports, the couple ended their relationship in August 2022.
Career
Jama moved to London in 2012 to pursue a media career, first as an actor, then as a television host and fashion model. Acting had been Jama's first aspiration, but she soon discovered that being a host would be more effective. Davina McCall and June Sarpong were among her early role models. Jama made her debut as a teenager on JumpOff.TV, a weekly music video countdown, and later worked with Sky UK on TRACE Sports.
She hosted Maya's FIFA World Cup Cities for Copa90, a travelogue reporting the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. She also co-hosted the Copa90 nine-part World Cup Taxi series devoted to the event. Jama appeared on MTV in August 2014 as a host for The Wrap Up.
She worked closely with Brit Awards in February 2017, including the 2017 Pre-Brit Awards Party and hosting a Facebook live stream from the red carpet. With Andrew Flintoff, Frankie Bridge, Radzi Chinyanganya, and Ryan Hand, she co-presented the Saturday night game show Cannonball on ITV with Andrew Flintoff, Frankie Bridge, Radzi Chinyanganya and Ryan Hand. Jama appeared on ITV's Loose Women in September and February 2018. Marvin Humes, the youngest person (then 23) to co-host the MOBO Awards on Channel 5 in November 2017.
Jama appeared on Channel 4 with Alice Levine in September 2018. She co-presented Stand Up to Cancer with long-standers Alan Carr and Adam Hills in October 2018 and became the team captain of the ITV2 rap panel show Don't Hate the Playaz presented by Jordan Stephens in October 2018. She appeared on A League of Their Own Road Trip with actor and comedian Tom Davis in 2019. In 2019, and 2020, she appeared on Channel 4's The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
Peter Crouch, a television presenter, hosted Save Our Summer in early June 2020. In the ensuing year, she co-anchored BBC One's New Year's Eve programme. Jama will be the new host of Glow Up: Britain's Next Makeover Star in January 2021, replacing former presenter Stacey Dooley, who appeared on the first two series of the programme. During RuPaul's second series of "BruPaul's Drag Race UK," Jama appeared as a celebrity guest judge in February 2021. Jama will be the host of Simon Cowell's latest music competition gamesshow Walk The Line in September 2021.
Jama would take over as the host of ITV2's dating reality show Love Island in October 2022.
On Rinse FM's weekday show #DriveWithMaya from 2014 to 2017.
She appeared on BBC Radio 1 in 2018 and co-presenting every Friday with Scott Mills and Chris Stark. Maya Jama, her own show, appeared on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020.
Jama had left Radio 1 after two years, according to the BBC, on May 15, 2020. She'd made "the difficult decision not to continue her Radio 1 contract," according to the magazine, and her final show was already broadcast on May 3, 2020. Jama said she had "a lot of exciting things" planned for the future in an Instagram post, but that she couldn't continue with her broadcasting campaign at Radio 1. "I would like to thank the staff for their continued hard work and friendship over the past two years," she said.
When Life Gives You Melons, a podcast produced in association with Freya Lingerie, was hosted in 2018. Jama was interviewed by the podcast discussing all-female guests' careers, life, and marriage. Cherry Healey, Vick Hope, Anna Richardson, Vanessa White, Vanessa White, Gemma Cairney, and Laura Whitmore were among the guests.
Jama served as an ambassador for Savera UK in the United Kingdom, assisting people from black ethnic minority groups that are vulnerable to domestic violence. She donated blood for an NHS cause in 2019 and was discovered to have the rare and in demand Ro blood subtype.
She launched a popular clothing collection with PrettyLittleThing in June 2018, followed by a second collection in February 2019.
She is an ambassador for Adidas and appeared in the European JD Sports Christmas campaign, as well as an ambassador for Australian hair care brand Aussie. She has also worked in a global GAP campaign and a Kurt Geiger campaign in Spring/Summer 2019.
Jama introduced her own face-and-eye masks collection in December 2020, with the first batch selling out within 24 hours.