Melissa Khalaj

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Melissa Khalaj
Born (1989-05-23) 23 May 1989 (age 32)
OccupationPresenter
Years active2013–present

Melissa Khalaj (born 23 May 1989 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German television host and singer.

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Career

After participating in the sixth season of Popstars , she became a member of the Munich band Charly Bravo. She left the band to be presenter at Joiz Germany. There she presented the Living Room, Home Run, the Wardrobe Challenge and occasionally Coffee + Charts. [1] The large audience was her by her appearance at the ProSieben broadcast Circus HalliGalli known.

In the same year she presented Etage 7, a web show about Germany's Next Topmodel. [2]

Incidentally, she played in a music video of the rapper MC Fitti. Together with her Joiz colleague Alexandra Maurer, she presented the Red Carpet at the Echoverleihung 2014 for the station Joiz.

From 2014 to 2015, she presented together with Annie Hoffmann and Miriam Rickli the show Crash Games – Jeder Sturz zählt! on ProSieben. [3] To accompany the second season of Promi Big Brother on Sat.1 she presented to sixx together with Jochen Bendel, the late-night talk show Promi Big Brother – Late Night Live. [4] From 2015 to 2016 she presented the format under the new title Promi Big Brother – Die Late Night Show again, and also from 2018. [5]

In November 2014, she participated with other celebrities in the sixx broadcast Frauendingsbums. [6] In the second season Frauendingsbums Khalaj participates again. In February 2015, Khalaj was back in front of the camera for sixx and presented a show with the highlights of the 57th Annual Grammy Awards . [7] She also acted as moderator additional formats on sixx.

On 27 July 2015, she announced that she is leaving the youth channel Joiz Germany. From October to December 2015, she summarized online on the homepage of the TV channel sixx the Big Brother week of the 12th season together. In 2017, she hosted an internet show along with Aaron Troschke before and after the premiere of Promi Big Brother . [8]

Since September 2017 Khalaj presents her own radio show entitled The Melissa Khalaj Show at Jam FM. [9] [ non-primary source needed ]

Personal life

Khalaj lives in Berlin and is in a relationship with actor Frederic Heidorn. [10]

Filmography

Television
YearTitleChannelRole
2007 Popstars ProSieben Season 6, Contestant
2013–2015Living RoomJoiz GermanyPresenter
Coffee+ChartsPresenter
2013–2014Home RunPresenter
2014Wardrobe Challenge
2014–2015Crash Games – Jeder Sturz zählt! ProSieben
2014Promi Big Brother – Late Night Live sixx Presenter
2015–2016, 2018–2020Promi Big Brother – Die Late Night ShowPresenter
2021–present Sat.1 Presenter
2015Joiz Live!Joiz Germany
Live&Direkt!
Die Grammy Awards 2015 – Das sixx Special sixx Presenter
mydays sucht myhero
sixx Musik Quickie
2016sixx Beauty Quickie
2017–presentDie Melissa Khalaj ShowJam FMPresenter
2019–present The Voice Kids Sat.1 Presenter
2020Big Brother – Die Late Night Show sixx Presenter
Das große Sat.1 Promiboxen Sat.1 Presenter
2022 All Together Now Presenter
The Voice of Germany ProSieben/Sat.1 Presenter
Internet
YearTitleSiteRole
2013Etage 7 ProSieben.dePresenter
2017Promi Big Brother – Warm UpFacebookPresenter
Promi Big Brother – Late Showpromibigbrother.dePresenter
2019–present Germany's Next Topmodel The Talk ProSieben.dePresenter

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References

  1. "Sieben für Berlin – das sind die Moderatoren von joiz Germany!". Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  2. "Etage 7 die neue Preshow zu Germanys Next Topmodel und Co".
  3. "joiz-Moderatorin Melissa Khalaj unterstützt ProSieben-Show".
  4. "sixx.de: Lerne Melissa kennen!".
  5. "Promi BB – Die Late Night Show mit Melissa und Jochen".
  6. "Frauendingsbums: Am Mittwoch geht's los".
  7. "GRAMMYs Award 2015: In der Nacht vom 8. Februar".
  8. "Die Promi Big Brother Late Show im Livestream (Weiter unten) Alle Infos zur Lateshow". Archived from the original on 22 January 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  9. "Facebook-Video zur Radioshow auf Jam FM".
  10. "Melissa Khalaj ganz privat: Für wem schlägt das Herz der schönen "The Voice Kids"-Moderatorin?".