1. Jordan Fontenelle Stephens was born on 25 January 1992 and is an English musician.
16 Facts About Jordan Stephens
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Jordan Stephens is best known for being one half of Rizzle Kicks, and for presenting the ITV2 panel show Don't Hate the Playaz.
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Jordan Stephens has released solo music under the aliases Rizzle, Wildhood, Al, the Native, and Gnarly Ventura.
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Jordan Stephens grew up in a council estate in Neasden, London before moving to Brighton when he was ten, where he attended Blatchington Mill School.
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Jordan Stephens met Harley Alexander-Sule when he was four, lost contact, and met him again when he was eleven whilst at a Sunday league football match.
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Jordan Stephens used the alias "Rizzle" when featuring on Hint's 2008 album Driven from Distraction on "Muddled Morning".
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In July 2016, Jordan Stephens uploaded "SLBK" featuring Thunderbird Gerard to his Facebook page; its music video was compiled from old home recordings and footage taken at a Black Lives Matter march he attended earlier that month.
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Later that year, Jordan Stephens played Rob in the E4 drama series Glue; its cast promoted the show with a 26 September 2014 appearance on Chatty Man.
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In December 2016, Jordan Stephens appeared as Corporal Tonc, a Rebel soldier in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, on 29 December 2016, he appeared on Robot Wars; his robot Dee, a pink axlebot made in collaboration with the Terrorhurtz drivers, lost two of its fights by knockout but won the third by a split decision.
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On 7 September 2018, Jordan Stephens played Rollo in Teen Spirit at the Toronto International Film Festival; the film saw theatrical release the following April.
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In 2019, Jordan Stephens starred alongside Derren Nesbitt in Tucked, a film about a young drag queen taken in by an older drag queen who is dying of cancer.
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On 1 March 2021, Jordan Stephens appeared as an ensemble actor in The Stand Up Sketch Show, and on 4 June that year, he had a recurring role in the second series of Mae Martin's sitcom Feel Good on Netflix, appearing in four episodes.
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Jordan Stephens was diagnosed with ADHD when he was fifteen, and then again as an adult by a Harley Street doctor.
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Jordan Stephens has been in a relationship with Jade Thirlwall since 2020; they met in lockdown via Zoom, and confirmed their relationship later that year after being spotted at a Black Trans Lives Matter rally in London.
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Jordan Stephens has been open about his experiences of racism, telling the Evening Standard in July 2016 that he had joined a Black Lives Matter march earlier that month in Westminster, and that "I've had brushes with the police and they've assumed a lot about me".
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In February 2021, Jordan Stephens was among one hundred public figures to sign an open letter to the BBC, organised by Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Mariam Khan, criticising what they called Emma Barnett's "strikingly hostile" interview of Zara Mohammed, the first woman and youngest person to be elected Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, and saying that her line of questioning perpetuated "damaging and prejudicial tropes" about Islam and Muslim women.