Phat Joe Biography
Phat Joe is a South African Television personality and radio DJ famous for hosting the celeb gossip magazine show Real Goboza. He rose to fame in the late 1990s to the early 2000s with ‘The Phat Joe Show’.
Phat Joe Age
The South African was born on 4th December 1974 in Pretoria. He is 44 years old as of 2018.
Phat Joe Family
He was born as Majota Mandlakayise Isaac Khambule and lived in Mafikeng, North West and in Polokwane in Limpopo where his father, Matthews Khambule, was a lecturer. He was eight years old when his family moved to the United States of America to flee the oppressive apartheid regime.
He spent twelve years in the United States and even attended school there. After the election in 1994, together with his parents they moved back to South Africa.
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He has a son with former model Farai Rook, named Brooklyn Khambule. The two have an amazing relationship as father and son as is portrayed when Brooklyn helps his father to propose to his soon-to-be stepmother.
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Phat Joe has a fiancée, Palesa Morgan, to whom he proposed in 2016. They are planning to tie the knot on an Island. Palesa Morgan had this to say about the wedding arrangements, “We don’t want to give too much information as yet but I can tell you that the wedding will be on a private island somewhere magical.”
She further added that they needed an entire year to organise and plan their big day. “We will be having our wedding in 2018 because we need a year to plan everything out and make sure everything is perfect.”
Phat Joe Career
In 1995, he joined Radio Bop, a Mmabatho based radio station, where he was the radio DJ until he quit in 1997. He joined YFM in 1997, where he was a DJ and host of the weekend breakfast show as well as the sales executive for the station.
In 1999, he became the host of the weekdays breakfast show at YFM. He began hosting his own comedy show ‘ The Phat Joe Show’ on the then newly founded television station, e.tv.
In 2001, he left YFM for Metro FM and ‘The Phat Joe Show’ was moved to SABC 1. In 2002, he left Metro FM. His show on SABC 1 aired until 2005. In 2008, he was the host of ‘The Phat Joe Morning Show’ on Kaya FM until 2012. He also joined Heart FM in 2009 until 2012.
In 2010, he was the co-presenter of ‘The Real Goboza’. In 2011, he co-hosted The 17th Annual South African Music Awards with Bonang Matheba.
In 2012, he returned to Metro FM where he hosts a Saturday breakfast show with Pearl Thusi.
In 2014, he hosted the first season of ‘Take Me Out South Africa’ which aired on SABC 1. He also hosted the 13th Annual Metro FM Awards alongside Pearl Thusi in the same year.
In March 2015, he joined SABC 3 new show, Presenter Search on 3, alongside Bonang Matheba, Jeannie D, Jonathan Boynton-Lee and Leigh-Anne.
Phat Joe Controversies
Phat Joe Remarks on Down Syndrome
On February 2017, during his drive time show on East Coast Radio he said that he felt ‘Down Syndromish’. He was later suspended after parents of children with Down Syndrome reacted.
In a Facebook post the radio station posted, “As a well-known and well-loved KZN brand, we will always endeavor to protect the interests of our listeners. We disagree with the comments that Phat Joe has made over the past few days and have decided to take him off air for the duration of this week. We will provide a further update as soon as we are in a position to do so.”
Phat Joe Comment on Caster Semenya
In 2009, Joe invited listeners to Kaya FM to express their views on the Semenya Caster issue after an Australian newspaper claimed that the results of the sex tests the teenager had allegedly undergone showed she had “no womb and no ovaries, and had internal testes”.
During the show Joe said, “Does this mean that at this point she has never had a period? To some extent, she should have known that something is not 100% right. She was still waiting for her period, perhaps?”
“Did she cheat when she left those women (behind) in Germany? Why is it possible that she could not have known that she is not 100% female?”
Due to these remarks he was fired from the radio station although he says that he was not given an explanation for his firing.
“I still don’t know why I got fired. They have not given the reason for firing me. No meeting was called to explain this and I wasn’t told why. I still have the letter on email.”
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Phat Joe and his wedding
Published: 07 July 2018
Source: https://www.zalebs.com/
You’ve probably been wondering when Phat Joe’s wedding will be taking place. The TV host melted hearts when he proposed to Palesa Morgan back in 2016.
His proposal video was the cutest. In the clip, Joe gave Palesa five reasons why he loves her. “You’re the most beautiful, sexy and angelic woman I have ever met. And to my surprise, with every passing day, you grow more and more beautiful,” he said. Isn’t he the sweetest, though?
So, when is the big day?
Speaking to Azania Mosaka on Real Talk, the former RGB said the ceremony was supposed to happen in April. “And it didn’t happen in April. And part of the problem has been me, my schedule and what’s going on in my life and business wise,” he told Azania.
Although he didn’t want to get into the details, he did confirm that there will be a wedding. He said there are dates that they’re targeting this year.
He described Palesa as an amazing, smart and intelligent person. “It’s very rare that you meet somebody that echoes your own thoughts. So, it’s like, whatever I say – it’s not that we complete each other’s thoughts – we’re so in agreement on so many that very little has to be said and spoken about. Half the time we just spend our time laughing at all the things we agree about, and like how crazy the world is and how people are…”
Shortly after the proposal video went viral, Palesa, who is a model by profession, had an interview on SABC 3’s Expresso. She revealed that she’s always know that she’d marry him.
“But when it happened of course I was so surprised and overjoyed. When asked if she knew if the proposal would happen that way, she said no. “It’s the last thing I expected. Just because he’s the opposite at home – he’s so quiet, I expected like a Sunday morning breakfast…” Palesa added that Joe definitely surprised her.