Mwaksy Mudenda Biography
Mwaksy Mudenda is a British television presenter from in South London. She is most known for being the 39th presenter of Blue Peter, which she hosted from 2020 to 2023, as well as presenting Becoming Xtraordinary.
How old is Mwaksy Mudenda? – Age
She is 29 years old as of 19 December 2023. She was born in 1994 in London, United Kingdom. Her real name is Mwaka Mudenda.
Mwaksy Mudenda Family – Education
Mudenda was born to a Zambian family on December 19, 1994, and began YouTubing under the moniker Mwaksy in 2014 before traveling to Manchester to study anthropology at university.
Mwaksy Mudenda Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £1.13 million.
Mwaksy Mudenda Blue Peter
Mudenda was named the 39th presenter of Blue Peter, a CBBC show, in May 2020; her first episodes were broadcast from home owing to the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown. While on the show, she, former Blue Peter presenter Sarah Greene, and a group of Wormholt Park primary school students opened a 42-year-old Blue Peter Time Capsule discovered in White City in 2022, and later prepared language learning courses in French, Spanish, and science.
She later left Blue Peter in September 2023, becoming the third presenter to leave in 14 months, sparking speculation that the show could be terminated after 65 years.After a stint as a guest host, Lauren Layfield was replaced full-time in January 2024 by TikToker Shini Muthukrishnan.
Blue Peter is a British children’s television show produced by John Hunter Blair and broadcast since October 1958. Originally broadcast from the BBC Television Centre in London, it relocated to MediaCityUK studios in Salford, Greater Manchester, in September 2011. The show is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel on Fridays at 5 p.m., rebroadcast on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m., Sundays at 9:00 a.m., and in BSL on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.
Biddy Baxter oversaw the BBC team that created the show, which featured 42 official presenters. The show includes challenges, competitions, celebrity interviews, pop culture, and arts and crafts segments. The show has a garden in London and Salford called the Blue Peter Garden, which is used for outdoor activities. The show included a variety of pets, making it an important part of British culture and legacy.
Mwaksy Mudenda Becoming Xtraordinary – Career
After graduating in 2018, she worked as an assistant producer for BBC Sport at MediaCityUK, where her responsibilities included making sports content relatable to younger audiences and filming videos for Instagram; one of these, her “Bust Down with Mwaksy,” drew the attention of BBC Children’s and Education, who invited her to a screen test.
In 2023, it was announced that Mudenda would co-host Becoming Xtraordinary for Da Vinci, a streaming service, alongside Evan Edinger and Bear Grylls, during which she would interview celebrities such as Julia Roberts, Roger Federer, Courteney Cox, Channing Tatum, Olympic gold medalists, and Nobel laureates. She has also competed on Crackerjack!, Celebrity Mastermind, Celebrity Catchpoint, Celebrity Bridge of Lies, Celebrity Catchphrase, and Pointless Celebrities.