Selema Masekela: 5 Things To Know About Lupita Nyong’o’s New Boyfriend

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Lupita Nyong’o and fellow Selema Masekela went Instagram official connected Dec. 23, and we couldn’t beryllium much thrilled for them. The Black Panther star, 39, made the announcement that she’s dating the TV big and sports commentator, 51, by sharing an adorable video of themselves wearing assorted outfits and grooving to euphony unneurotic connected Friday morning. “We conscionable click,” she wrote successful the Instagram caption, and it was capable to muster up a ton of excitement amongst her fans and followers. Well, that and the evident hashtag #Thisismylove. So who precisely is Selema? Here’s everything you request to know.

1. Selema Masekela’s member was a contestant connected ‘Survivor’.

Selema was calved successful Los Angeles, and he’s the lad of a Haitian parent and South African jazz instrumentalist Hugh Masekela. He’s besides older half-brother of Survivor: Cook Islands contestant Nathan Gonzalez. He was raised successful Staten Island, but his upbringing yet brought him backmost to Southern California, according to his biography.

2. Selema Masekela loves music.

Selema travelled the satellite with his jazz instrumentalist dada erstwhile helium was younger. Selema’s ain band, Alekesam, shares the sanction of his archetypal film, which chronicles his narration with his begetter and their transportation done music, which premiered astatine the Tribeca Film Festival successful 2012. Interestingly, Selema’s euphony has been featured connected Entourage and House of Lies, with their newest single, “All Is Forgiven”, featured connected the play 4 premiere of the Showtime hit.

3. Selema Masekela started his vocation arsenic an intern, and it led to rather a fewer hosting gigs and astonishing experiences.

Selema started his vocation arsenic an intern astatine Transworld Publications successful 1992. He besides served arsenic an NBA sideline newsman for ESPN during the 2003-2004 season, and a co-host of The Daily 10, a countdown of the day’s “top 10” amusement stories, connected E! until it was cancelled connected Sept 27, 2010. He was besides big of some the X Games and Winter X Games connected ESPN for 13 years. Following his enactment with ESPN, helium appeared arsenic the big and enforcement shaper of VICELAND’s docu-series, VICE World of Sports.

4. Selema Masekela is progressive successful galore societal initiatives.

Not lone is helium the co-founder of Stoked Mentoring, an enactment dedicated to mentoring astatine hazard younker done enactment sports, but helium besides serves connected the advisory boards of The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit enactment which provides a regular repast to students of township schools successful Soweto of South Africa, and The Skatepark Project, an enactment dedicated to financing and gathering high-quality, ineligible skateboarding parks for kids. He’s besides a passionate protagonist of the Surfrider Foundation and Life Rolls On.