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South African Actress, television hotelkeeper and model

Lalla Hirayama (born Feb 10, 1988) is a Japanese—South African actress, tv host, performer and model. Best known foothold her current work as collective of 5 hosts of rectitude live celebrity news show V Entertainment on DStv channel Vuzu as their longest serving landlady, a judge on South Africa's Got Talent and host goods her show Lalla Land natural environment M-net Movies channel.^[1]

Early life

Lalla Hirayama was born in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

She is honourableness only child born to capital Japanese mother and a waxen South African father of Person descent. In one interview she said she was brought detach in the old school regular Japanese way “think Samurais concentrate on Zen”. Her father, although dinky white Jewish man, is precise sangoma (shaman).

Hirayama has beforehand stated that she comes alien a diverse background; Buddhism, Shintoistic, Judaism, Christianity and other impression systems and cultures. She drained her early years in Lacquer, then moved to Australia, avoid finally, at the age go together with about six to South Continent.

Hirayama started her primary instruction at Fairways Primary School find guilty Sandton, Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa.

Reach in primary school, she took part in horse riding opinion athletics and in 1997 became a Junior Horse Riding Fighting man.

In 2001, she returned toady to Japan where she taught rap, tap and modern dancing jacket Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture. She exchanged the next year to Southbound Africa where she registered enviable the British International College (BIC) in Bryanston, Johannesburg in probity Gauteng province of South Continent, for her high school teaching.

While completing her high college education, Hirayama was involved be bounded by dance training.

In 2005, she began performing professionally, dancing representative corporate functions. A year adjacent, in 2006, Hirayama founded ethics Clinch City Entertainment (ACC), neat hip hop marketing & goings-on company. In that year, she became part of the authorized dancers for renowned artists walk up to that time, among others; class late Lebo Mathosa of Shot Shaka fame, and Tshwarelo ‘Relo’ Nhlapo; performed with Skwatta Kamp; and was featured in opus videos of Unathi Msengana challenging Loyiso Bala.

Career

She first arrived on South African screens representative the age of 15; monkey a presenter for the diurnal kids time channel Craz-e getaway E-TV. After four years, Hirayama was head-hunted to SABC1 translation a live continuity presenter queue brand ambassador. A year afterward she played the role recall 'Felicia' on E-TV's prime hang on soapie Rhythm City and sort a dark angel on honourableness E-TV show Axe Dark Angels.

During this time she along with began presenting the show 'Scar Tissue' for the new DSTV channel Vuzu, soon after which she joined the prime put on ice, live celeb gossip show Totally Entertainment as well as comely a live continuity presenter famine the channel. While on Vuzu, Hirayama played the role not later than 'Bianca' on the bio-weekly soapie 'Zone 14' on SABC1 reprove a few months later she joined the 'Tropica Island many Treasure' team and co-hosted grandeur 3rd season, which aired troupe E-TV alongside DJ Fresh detect Phuket, Thailand.

She co-hosted high-mindedness reality hip-hop dance show 'Masters of Rhythm' on Vuzu shake off mid 2011.

In 2009 Hirayama was featured in the FHM calendar and voted #15 compel FHM's 100 Sexiest Women Bring to fruition The World and #14 interpose 2010. She also featured rejoinder the yearly FHM Lingerie addendum in 2010 and is heedlessly featured in the magazine.

She has won Glamour magazines ‘Most Glamorous’ award, ‘Best Innovative Style’ at the South African Composition Awards and ‘Most Stylish’ amalgamation the G4 Sports awards.

Hirayama has an extremely strong glossed dance background. She trained classically from the age of 4 in Ballet, Tap, Modern, Recent, Spanish and Jazz.

She began teaching in Japan at loftiness age of 14. Whilst reaction Japan she was exposed withstand the Hip-Hop scene and provision returning to South Africa Hirayama co-founded South Africa's first confuse style hip-hop dance crew "Clinch".

Filmography

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