Elz, who keeps her full name under wraps, turned her online success into a career as a host.<\/p>\n
She’s a familiar face to fans of the Sidemen Charity Match, which she has presented several times, as well as a regular voice on Kiss Xtra and Kerrang Radio.<\/p>\n
Despite that experience, she admits feeling “nervous” when she first learned she’d landed the Bafta awards host gig.<\/p>\n
“It’s very nerve-wracking and a lot of pressure,” she says, adding that she was “blown away” to be considered for the job.<\/p>\n
But, she tells Newsbeat, it’s a platform for her to continue the goal she set out to achieve when she first started uploading videos – boosting female representation and challenging stereotypes in the gaming space.<\/p>\n
“I was told when I was little: ‘Oh, why are you gaming?’,” she says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elz, who keeps her full name under wraps, turned her online success into a career as a host.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}