Jameela Jamil brother Adnandus Dyzantae is a prolific writer. Adnandus book Ill Literate was published in 2008.
Adnandus is Jameela’s only sibling. Jameela is a British actress and television presenter. She started her career as a pop-culture show host for Channel 4 in 2009, she held the helm of the T4 slot for three years until calling it quits with Channel 4 in 2012.
Jamil then moved to be a radio host, she started off as a co-host in BBC One’s The Official Chart Update alongside Scott Mills. She also hosted The Official Chart alone becoming the first solo female host on BBC One’s show in 2012. She moved to the United State of America in 2016 to pursue her career in films.
The British television host has worked in NBC’s The Good Place, DC’s DC League of Super-Pets, and Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law since moving to the United States of America. She also hosts The Misery Index since 2019.
Jameela was born in Hampstead, London, and grew up playing alongside her elder sibling.
Adnandus Dyzantae Is A College Dropout Turned Writer
Jameela Jamil brother Adnandus Dyzantae is the author of The Ill Literate. The book is about wilderness of mental health problems, homelessness, and absence of concentration.
Dyzantae dropped out of school at the age of 17 years old. He has just read one book from start to finish in his entire life, yet he has written over 300 prolific poems according to his author profile on Amazon.
His first and only book The Ill Literate was published on September 9, 2008. The book is still available for purchase on Amazon for $17 for the paper version and $9 for the Kindle version.
Adnandus’s book was released at the height of his illness according to his mother’s tweet. However, the prolific writer managed to win over his demons with proper diagnosis and treatment. Dyzantae went to attend university in September 2017.
The author’s mother asked for help to find her missing son a year later through a tweet. It is unknown if Adnandus was found shortly or not at all. He might have been found unharmed as there is no information about him suffering from any ill fate available on the internet.
Adnandus Is 45 Years Old
Adnandus Is 45 years old as of January 2023. Dyzantae was born on April 4, 1977.
The author was 31 years old when his book The Ill Literate was published on September 9, 2008. His memoir contains his ups and downs, his struggles with mental health, his lack of concentration, and the problems that followed.
Dyzantae’s sister Jameela revealed he was nine years old when she was just a baby Instagram post. She also added, Adnandus saved her from burning in a fire at such a young age. She revealed, Adnandus was her hero in the caption of the post.
The half-siblings share nine years age difference between them Adnandus’s baby sister Jameela is 36 years old. She was born on February 25, 1986, in London, England.
Their Parents
Jameela and Adnandus are maternal half-siblings born to their mother Shireen Jamil.
Adnandus’s father’s name is not known but Shireen gave birth to the author when she was in a relationship with another man before marrying Ali.
According to Express, Ali started abusing Shireen after she took her son Adnandus to meet his father for the first time. Ali wrapped his hand around Shireen’s neck while throbbing her, marking the beginning of the over a decade-long abusive relationship.
Dyzantae does not have a good relationship with his father. According to a tweet by his mother Jamil, Dyzantae let go of his father’s surname and changed his last name to Deed Poll in his passport.
Jameela’s father Ali was a Pakistani, according to her tweet. She wrote an angry tweet after the press labeled their father as Indian. Jameela mentioned the nationality of people is not determined by their birthplace but by their citizenship. She also stated, her father held a Pakistani passport and was a Pakistani national with Indian ancestry.
Their mother Shireen is a British citizen with roots back in Pakistan. Shireen is better known as the person who lobbied the government to pass Shireen Law. It now has lifted the time limit of 6 months to report any domestic violence in the United Kingdom, providing ample preparation time to the victims.