Maya Jama is 28 years old as of 2022.
Maya Jama celebrates her birthday every August 14. She was born on August 14, 1994, in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Maya Jama is an English television, and radio presenter, comedian, and DJ.
Jama attended Cotham School Bristol. She is of Somali descent on her father’s side and Swedish descent on her mother’s side.
In 2012, Jama moved to London to pursue a media career, first as an actress, then as a TV presenter and fashion model.
Acting had been Jama’s first ambition but realized that becoming a presenter might suit her better.
Jama began her presenting debut as a teenager, presenting the weekly music video countdown on JumpOff.TV, and later worked for Sky UK on TRACE Sports.
In radio, Jama hosted #DriveWithMaya on Rinse FM from 2014 to 2017, co-presented Radio 1’s Greatest Hits, and presented her eponymous show, Maya Jama on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020.
She co-presented BBC One’s Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer alongside Peter Crouch and Alex Horne and is the presenter of the BBC Three competition Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star from the third series (2021) onwards. Starting in January 2023, Jama will host Love Island.