Maya Jama Biography: Age, Education, Career

Maya Indea Jama (born August 14, 1994) professionally known as Maya Jama is an English television presenter and media personality.

She came into the spotlight as a co-presenter for BBC One’s Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer alongside Peter Crouch and Alex Horne.

She is also known for co-presenting Trending Live! on 4Music. She became an ambassador for Adidas and also the Australian hair care brand, Aussie.

Real Facts About Maya Jama


  • Full Name: Maya Indea Jama
  • Stage Name: Maya Jama
  • Born: August 14, 1994
  • Age: 28 yrs old (2022)
  • Birth Place: Bristol
  • Nationality: English
  • Boyfriend: Stormzy (ex)
  • Occupation: Media Personality
  • Net Worth: N/A

 

 

Early Life & Education


Maya Jama was born on August 14, 1994, in Bristol, where she was raised alongside her brother Omar.

She is of mixed ethnicity as her father is Somali while her mother, Sadie is Swedish.

She completed her education at Cotham School in Bristol.

Career


Jama began to pursue a career in the media and the age of 18. She started as an actress, then as a TV presenter, and also as a Fashion model.

As a presenter, she started with the weekly music video countdown on JumpOff TV before she worked for Sky UK on Trace Sports.

She became the host of Maya’s FIFA World World Cup Cities for Copa90, which is a travelogue that covers the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, in 2014 and the same year, she became the presenter for The Wrap Up at MTV.

She co-presented the Saturday Night game show Cannonball on ITV alongside the likes of Andrew Flintoff, Frankie Bridge, and Ryan Hand, in September 2017, and in November, she became the youngest person at the age of 23, to co-host the MOBO awards alongside Marvin Humes.

Jama co-presented the first series of The Circle alongside Alice Levine, in September 2018 and also co-presented Stand Up to Cancer with Alan Carr and Adam Hills, in October 2018.

She came to the limelight for presenting the Saturday evening BBC One TV program Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer, in June 2020 and was announced as the new presenter of Glow Up Britain’s Next make-Up star while replacing the former presenter, Stacey Dooley, in January 2021.

As a radio presenter, she hosted #DriveWithMaya, a weekly show on Rinse FM from 2014 to 2017. She joined BBC1 in 2018, where she became the presenter for Radio 1’s Greatest Hits on Saturdays and co-presenting every Friday alongside Chris Stark and Scott Mills.

Aside from being a media personality, Jama launched a successful clothing collection with PrettyLittleThing in June 2018 and also followed up with a second collection in February 2019.

She also launched her own face and eye marks range, MIJ Masks, in December 2020.

 

 

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Nwede Chinedu Mishach Popularly known as Rechibee is a Nigerian Content Editor and an Entertainment reporter at Wakadaily. He is a passionate journalist with a core interest in Special reports, Biography, and music journalism.

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