Lalla Hirayama

Lalla Hirayama is a Japanese-born South African TV presenter, actress, dancer and model. Best known for her current work as co-host of the live celebrity gossip show V-Entertainment on DSTV's Vuzu TV channel and a judge on SA’s Got Talent and the host of her travel and movies show LALLALAND on M-net Movies channels.

She first appeared on South African screens at the age of 15; as a presenter for the daily kids time channel Craz-e on E-TV. After four years, Lalla was head-hunted to SABC1 as a live continuity presenter and brand ambassador. A year later she played the role of 'Felicia' on E-TV's prime time soapie Rhythm City and as a dark angel on the E-TV show Axe Dark Angels. During this time Lalla also began presenting the show 'Scar Tissue' for the new DSTV channel 'Vuzu TV' , soon after which she joined the prime time, live celeb gossip show 'V-Entertainment' as well as becoming a live continuity presenter for the channel. While on Vuzu, Lalla played the role of 'Bianca' on the bio-weekly soapie 'Zone 14' on SABC 1 and a few months later she joined the 'Tropica Island of Treasure' team and co-hosted the 3rd season, which aired on E-TV alongside DJ Fresh in Phuket, Thailand. Lalla co-hosted the reality hip-hop dance show 'Masters of Rhythm' on Vuzu from mid 2011.

In 2009 Lalla was featured in the FHM calendar and voted #15 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women In The World and #14 in 2010. She also featured in the yearly FHM Lingerie supplement in 2010 and is regularly featured in the magazine. Lalla has won Glamour magazines ‘Most Glamorous’ award, ‘Best Innovative Style’ at the South African Style Awards and ‘Most Stylish’ at the G4 Sports awards.

Lalla has an extremely strong professional dance background. She trained classically from the age of 4 in Ballet, Tap, Modern, Contemporary, Spanish and Jazz. She began teaching in Japan at the age of 14. Whilst in Japan she was exposed to the Hip-Hop scene and after returning to South Africa Lalla co-founded South Africa's first mix style hip-hop dance crew "Clinch".

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