53 Facts About Jameela Jamil

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Jameela Alia Jamil was born on 25 February 1986 and is a British actress, activist, podcaster, and television host and judge.

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Jameela Jamil began her career on Channel 4, where she hosted a pop culture series in the T4 strand from 2009 until 2012.

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Jameela Jamil then became the radio host of The Official Chart, and co-hosted The Official Chart Update alongside Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1.

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Jameela Jamil was the first solo female presenter of the BBC Radio 1 chart show.

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Jameela Jamil played Tahani Al-Jamil in the NBC fantasy comedy series The Good Place.

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In 2022, Jamil worked on two superhero projects: the animated film DC League of Super-Pets and the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

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Jameela Jamil experienced mercury poisoning at 21, which she attributes to mercury leakage from amalgam teeth fillings, exacerbated by their improper removal, which damaged her digestive system.

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Jameela Jamil believes her eating disorder developed due to societal pressure, including magazine articles selling weight loss products.

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Jameela Jamil describes being told that she might never walk again, but slowly recovering after steroid treatment and physiotherapy, using a Zimmer frame to start walking.

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Jameela Jamil attended Queen's College School in London but was unable to complete her A-Levels, citing the accident.

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Jameela Jamil has said she then taught English to foreign students at the Callan School of English in London for two years.

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Jameela Jamil describes having worked as a photographer, scout and model agent for Premier Model Management.

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Jameela Jamil said in an NPR interview that she was working as a teacher when she was discovered by a producer at a bar and asked to audition as a presenter.

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Jameela Jamil said she applied to be a presenter by email after seeing a T4 job advertisement.

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Jameela Jamil appeared on Music Zone on E4, the youth channel owned by Channel Four, toward the end of 2008.

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Jameela Jamil then began presenting at Channel 4's youth slot T4 in 2009.

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In January 2009, when the previous presenter, Alexa Chung, left the morning TV show Freshly Squeezed, Jameela Jamil succeeded her as co-host, alongside Nick Grimshaw.

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In 2010, Jameela Jamil presented The Closet, an online fashion advice show on the social networking site Bebo produced by Twenty Twenty.

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Jameela Jamil has said that her first show was at Elton John's birthday party, where she says she was invited to DJ because she lied about having prior experience.

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In June 2012, Jameela Jamil collaborated with Very to debut her first fashion collection.

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Jameela Jamil made radio history, becoming the first sole female presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Chart show.

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Jameela Jamil left London in 2016 and moved to Los Angeles.

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Jameela Jamil recounts having no plans to act, and that she instead intended to work as a screenwriter.

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Jameela Jamil was later recalled for a second interview with Schur and the producers, in which she claimed to have comedy improv experience.

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Jameela Jamil's character became known for her tendency to name drop.

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Jameela Jamil made her first American magazine cover on the February 2018 issue of The Cut.

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Jameela Jamil provided her voice as a guest on the animated television series DuckTales.

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Since 2019, Jameela Jamil has been the host of The Misery Index, a comedy game show on TBS.

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In 2018, Jameela Jamil joined the cast of Disney's Indian-inspired cartoon set in fictional Jalpur.

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Mira, Royal Detective debuted in March 2020, with Jameela Jamil playing Mira's Auntie Pushpa.

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In 2021, Jameela Jamil contributed to the production of Blake's fifth album, Friends That Break Your Heart, adding additional production to its first single, "Say What You Will".

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In March 2018, Jameela Jamil created an Instagram account called I Weigh, inspired by a picture that she came across online of Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian with their half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, detailing each woman's weight.

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In part due to this work, Jameela Jamil was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women during 2018.

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Jameela Jamil has been a critic of diet shakes and appetite suppressants.

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Jameela Jamil explained that in her teens she starved herself, took laxatives and tips from celebrities on how to maintain a low weight.

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Jameela Jamil has criticised the Kardashians, rapper Cardi B, and other influencers for promoting diet suppressants on social media.

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Jameela Jamil called upon social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to ban the practice, noting its dangerous effects on teenagers.

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Jameela Jamil often criticises Kim Kardashian for promoting unhealthy body ideals, such as by wearing a corset, promoting body makeup to cover skin imperfections such as psoriasis and offering maternity shapewear for her fashion line.

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In November 2020, Jameela Jamil claimed that it was a third-party app that caused her Twitter posts to disappear in the previous months, and that she had deleted her entire Twitter post history to figure out why her posts were being removed.

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Jameela Jamil is against the airbrushing of editorial images and refuses to retouch all her photo shoots.

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Jameela Jamil is critical of fashion and modelling industry standards and remarked that runway models looked "long-starved" and "terrified".

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Jameela Jamil called Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld a "ruthless, fat-phobic misogynist" after his death.

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In 2023, Jameela Jamil signed an open letter expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias" in the New York Timess reporting on transgender people.

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Jameela Jamil appeared on C4 Orange Rockcorps 2009, volunteering to help create a concert to fund local community projects.

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Jameela Jamil designed her own version of SpongeBob SquarePants to be auctioned off with all the proceeds going to Childline.

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Jameela Jamil said she would wear a chicken costume for the number of days equal to the number of thousands of pounds she raises for Comic Relief.

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Jameela Jamil was one of 15 women selected to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue "Forces for Change", by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

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On 2 August 2019, Jameela Jamil was awarded "Advocate of the Year" from the Ehlers-Danlos Society.

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Jameela Jamil received the "Phenom" award from the 12th annual Shorty Awards on 3 May 2020.

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Jameela Jamil has been in a relationship with musician James Blake since 2015.

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Jameela Jamil publicly declared herself as queer after her appointment as a judge of voguing reality series Legendary received heavy criticism, as voguing ball culture is rooted in Black and Latino LGBTQ communities in New York.

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On 10 October 2019, as part of World Mental Health Day, Jameela Jamil said she survived a suicide attempt six years earlier.

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Jameela Jamil said that she partook in EMDR therapy to treat her post traumatic stress disorder before moving to Los Angeles.