Maya Jama might have stunned in The Duchess, but it turns out her acting career could have started years earlier as she actually auditioned for Skins.
The presenter, 26, revealed to Metro.co.uk that she tried out to be on the edgy teen show when she was in school. She explained: ‘At school I always wanted to act, that was my first dream to be an actress and I did loads of auditions.
I was around 14 or 15 and I had a few close calls to be in things like Skins nearly, and I did a couple of adverts and little things. ‘Skins came to my school to audition but then that didn’t really happen.
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