# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-mcguiness
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:03.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-mcguiness"
name: "Jay McGuiness"
slug: "jay-mcguiness"
description: "James \"Jay\" McGuiness is a British singer, songwriter, actor and author best known as a vocalist with boy band The Wanted. In 2015, partnered with Aliona Vilani, he won the 13th series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. In February 2024 Jay’s debut fantasy novel ‘Blood Flowers’ was published worldwide by Scholastic."
tagline: "British singer-songwriter with boy band The Wanted"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jay_McGuiness_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1990-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.97
  momentum:             3.978583196046128
  historical:           5.452138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jaythewanted"
    handle:    "jaythewanted"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mcguinessdaily.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_McGuiness"
    title: "Jay McGuiness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "چاى مكجوينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_McGuiness"
    title: "Jay McGuiness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8648e7fd-d52a-4127-9fc1-851f0f890741"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_McGuiness"
    title: "Jay McGuiness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%92_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جے میک گائینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21170928"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump