Was Jameela Jamil ever an English Teacher?
In short, no she wasn’t, but that hasn’t stopped her spinning a complicated web of lies accompanied by a few side orders of word salads. I’ve attached transcripts of her claims from podcast and YouTube interviews. But you’ll have to concentrate as it’s confusing.
This is a story about how Jameela Jamil has lied and gaslit interviewers on numerous occasions when telling them she was an English teacher, English Literature or High School English teacher. She has never been any of these things....but she (probably) was a TEFL teacher. Oh, for those who aren’t aware of what a TEFL teacher is, I’ll explain. TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. So, remember that EVERY time she uses the term English teacher she is lying and misleading the interviewer. and as the transcript of the last time she was asked about this shows...she KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE between and English teacher and a TEFL teacher. I believe there is some truth to the claims that Jameela Jamil taught English as a foreign language. But being a TEFL teacher Teaching is NOT equal to being an English Teacher, an English Literature teacher, a High School English teacher or any other connotation that you can come up with for a Univeristy educated person who qualifies in English to become a bone fide teacher of English. To become a TEFL teacher a person has to pass a course devised by the TEFL company, and the course can be completed in a matter of days or weeks. Having said that....I heard British comedian Lee Mack say recently in a podcast that he had ONE DAYS training to qualify to be a TEFL teacher (this was a while back) ! A person does NOT need qualifications gained from high school, secondary school, college or Uni to do the TEFL course and the minimum age to be a TEFL teacher is 18.
I have included evidence of 5 separate occasions she has bare faced lied to:
Lewis Howes ,Justin Long, Sinead Burke, Laci Mosley & Charlamagne
I’ll attach transcripts of each conversation all from 2019 and one from 2020. However here she is in January of this year finally telling the truth!!! And literally laughing when the interviewer put it to her that he thought she had been an English teacher!!!! But as you see she DOES KNOW the difference. Maybe she told the truth because Alan Cummings is Scottish and knew her story of being an English Teacher in the U.K. just didn’t add up.
Homo Sapiens podcast with Alan Cumming 14th January 2021
Part 2 forward to 12.41
If you read the attached transcripts to other interviews, it’s no surprise that Alan Cummings sounds totally confused when she says she wasn’t an English teacher!!! And although she is telling the truth on this occasion by admitting she was never an English Teacher, she is gaslighting Alan Cummings in the process.
Transcript from podcast.
Jameela Jamil... I’m the vehicle by which people learn, coz I’m quite ignorant, I left school at 16, like there’s a lot I don’t know, I’m not very well read because I was super mentally ill
Alan Cumming : I thought you were a teacher, I thought you were an English teacher?
Jameela Jamil : No I taught English as a foreign language, very different.
Alan Cumming : Oh, I see, ah yes it is very different.....(he laughs and so does JJ)....That’s funny.
Jameela Jamil : That’s teaching someone via like the art of mime to, why they shouldn’t pronounce sitting as shitting, so that’s very different, that’s, Russel brand and I both did that , we’re not esteemed professors
Alan Cumming: Right, I got the whole wrong end of the stick there
Jameela Jamil : No, it fine.
Here she is claiming that she had to choose between her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and her hearing!
Here she is claiming that she had to choose between her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and her hearing!