Maya Jama

Maya Jama

Maya Indea Jama is a British television and radio presenter. She has co-presented Trending Live! on 4Music from 2015 until 2017. In May 2020, the BBC confirmed that Jama had left Radio 1 after two years. She was accused of colourism after an offensive 2012 tweet mocking ‘dark skinned’ women.

About Maya Jama in brief

Summary Maya JamaMaya Indea Jama is a British television and radio presenter. She has co-presented Trending Live! on 4Music from 2015 until 2017, Cannonball on ITV in 2017, the MTV show True Love or True Lies with Danny Dyer, and the first series of The Circle on Channel 4 with Alice Levine. She presented a BBC Radio 1 show on Fridays and Saturdays 10: 00am–1: 00pm GMT. Jama co-hosted BBC One’s Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer during the 2020 lockdown. In November 2019, she won the People’s Choice Award for best dressed star in a 5G powered AR 5G dress.

In May 2020, the BBC confirmed that Jama had left Radio 1 after two years. She was accused of colourism after an offensive 2012 tweet mocking ‘dark skinned’ women resurfaced; Jama subsequently apologised for the tweet. In 2018, Jama became an ambassador for Savera UK, which operates across the UK to provide services to individuals from black ethnic minority communities who are at risk of domestic abuse. She is also a hair care ambassador for Australian brand, Aussie Hair.