Maya Jama reveals how she survived as a ‘broke’ teenager in London while trying to build her TV career
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thesun.co.ukNEW Love Island host Maya Jama says she was so skint when she moved to London she lived on £1 chicken dinners. Maya, 28, told of the sacrifices she made for a career as she touched down in Cape Town ahead of the ITV2 show’s winter series.
She said she did not have enough money to get to work after moving from Bristol to the capital aged 16 — but was happy as she was following her dream.
Maya, who now has an estimated net worth of £1.5million, recalled: “I was broke, pretending I’d lost my Oyster card every day so I could get to work.
Hustling my little way around London, having £1 chicken-shop meals every day. “But I was happy. I was working and I was living in London, I felt like I was getting somewhere.
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