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TV presenter Maya Jama talks as if she's on fast-forward, so quickly it's a challenge to keep pace.  
  
I wonder if she's ever anxious about drying up on live television? Daft question. Of course she's not! ‘If I worry about anything it's saying something silly. Once it's out there, it's out there. So a filter goes on. I put my sensible head on. And before I go on I give myself a pep talk in the mirror.  
  
"OK, you can do this!" It's my Mr Motivator talk.'Hard to credit, but Maya is only 26. Ten years ago she arrived, skint, in , a ‘loud, show-offy' teenager with dreams of TV stardom. Since then she's surpassed all expectations, from having her own Radio 1 show to being the youngest person (at 23) to present the MOBO Awards on Channel 5 with Marvin Humes and hosting BBC3's recent make-up competition Glow Up.  Maya Jama, 26, (pictured) who lives in London, revealed her latest TV project and future goals as she's nominated for the Best Presenter at this year's National Television AwardsThis year she's up for Best Presenter at the National Television Awards, and four shows she has worked on have also received nominations.  
  
‘I went on the website to vote and thought, "I hope I'm nominated one day." And then I saw I had been. It was a massive surprise!'A staple of celebrity magazines during her four-year relationship with grime superstar Stormzy, which ended in 2019, she doesn't want to talk about the break-up or rumours of a reconciliation, or indeed about whether (or not) she's in a relationship now.  
  
‘I'm not discussing my love life unless I get married,' she insists.She's happy to admit she's already a millionaire. She seems mildly incredulous about this though. RELATED ARTICLES   
  
  
  
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‘When my manager told me I thought, "Noooo!" I'd been working pretty much every day for years but it still seemed mad.' A year ago she bought her first property - a split-level flat in south-west London - but she's been so busy since that she hasn't had time to put her mark on it.‘In an ideal world I'd plan it and magically it would come about without my involvement,' she laughs.  
  
‘I'm not domestic. When I get married I want my husband to do all the cooking and cleaning.'Warm and chatty, she's sitting in her open-plan living area in off-duty trackies for our Zoom call, her hair in a thick braid, her caramel skin flawless, rattling on about her latest TV project for BBC1. <div class="art-ins mol-factbox femail floatRHS" data-version="2" id="mol-089199e0-cac5-11eb-ad8d-4da710fc94b6" website Jama on her tragic past and ambition to be a Bond villain   
  
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