Maya Jama Net worth

Maya has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million. She has amased a fortune from her work as a presenter, endorsements and her own skincare product, MIJ Masks.

Who Is Maya Jama?

Maya Indea Jama, an English television, radio, and DJ presenter, was born on August 14, 1994. She co-presented Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer on BBC One with Peter Crouch and Alex Horne, and she will show Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star on BBC Three beginning with the third series (2021).

From 2015 to 2017, Jama co-hosted Trending Live! on 4Music. In 2018, she co-hosted True Love or True Lies on MTV. In addition, she co-hosted the first season of The Circle with Alice Levine on Channel 4. In radio, Jama co-hosted Radio 1’s Greatest Hits and aired her own program, Maya Jama, on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020. She also hosted #DriveWithMaya on Rinse FM from 2014 to 2017.

Maya Jama Age

Maya Indea Jama was born on 14 August 1994 in Bristol. As of 2023, Maya is 28 years old. She celebrates her birthday every year on 14 August with close friends and family.

Maya Jama Boyfriend

In 2021, it was reported Jama was dating NBA player Ben Simmons. In 2022 the couple reported the end of their relationship.

Jama dated British rapper Stormzy between 2015 and 2019, and the breakup he had served as the inspiration for his song “Lessons” that year.

Maya Jama Family

Maya has Swedish ancestry on her mother’s side and Somali ancestry on her father’s. Jama’s mother, Sadie, named her after American author and poet Maya Angelou when she was 19 years old. Omar is her brother as well.

Jama’s father spent the majority of her youth behind bars for violent offenses like fights and brawls at bars. When she was 12 years old, she made the decision to cease going to visit her father in jail, and she did so for ten years. She stated that she didn’t really recognize it as a problem in an interview with The Guardian in 2017: “It was usual for me.

My dad’s side of my family was super-supportive and they did everything in their power to make me and my brother not feel like we were missing out on anything”. While working on the documentary When Dads Kill in 2017, which dealt with young people’s experiences similar to her own childhood, she relented and examined her relationship with her own father, by then released from prison, meeting with him in an attempt to elicit answers directly from him; “nothing he said, and nothing his family told her, gave her any real insights” into why he had ended up in prison.

Jama remains close to her mother and occasionally the two appear on talk shows together and attend private celebrity events.

Maya Jama Career Background

Jama relocated to London in 2012 to seek a career in the media as an actress, TV presenter, and fashion model. Jama had originally wanted to be an actress, but she later realized that she could be more comfortable as a presenter. Early role models for her included June Sarpong and Davina McCall. In her teenage years, Jama made her presenting debut by hosting the weekly music video countdown on JumpOff.TV. She later worked for Sky UK on TRACE Sports.

She served as the host of Maya’s FIFA World Cup Cities for Copa90 in 2014, a travelogue focusing on the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup. She also shared hosting duties for the nine-part World Cup Taxi series on Copa90. Jama began working for MTV as a presenter for The Wrap Up in August 2014.

She collaborated closely with the Brit Awards in February 2017, hosting both their 2017 Pre-Brit Awards Party and a Facebook live stream from the red carpet. She co-hosted the Saturday night game show Cannonball on ITV in September 2017 alongside Andrew Flintoff, Frankie Bridge, Radzi Chinyanganya, and Ryan Hand. Jama appeared on ITV’s Loose Women as a guest panelist in September 2017 and February 2018. When she and fellow broadcaster Marvin Humes co-hosted the MOBO Awards on Channel 5 in November 2017, she was the youngest person (at the time age 23).