MAYA JAMA did not have the easiest of childhoods. When she was aged just two, the police knocked at the family’s door looking for her father in connection with an attack.
When the bewildered tot was asked where her dad was hiding, she replied: “Under the bed.” But despite growing up with a jailbird father who was in and out of prison, Maya has become one of TV’s most in-demand presenters.
However, the 26-year-old — currently on our screens with ex-England striker Peter Crouch on his Crouchy’s Year-Late Euros: Live — has now cut her father out of her life.
In an exclusive chat with The Sun on Sunday, dad Hussein, 52, tells what life was like for a young Maya, who was born in Bristol to him and Swedish mum Sadie, 45.
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