As Love Island UK Season 11 is kicking off on Monday, fans are excited to see Maya Jama as the host for the summer series once again. But who is the beloved TV presenter?
Hit ITV reality show Love Island is back for a second time this year for its summer 2024 series, with a new cast entering the villa in an attempt to find love and be in with a chance of winning £50,000.
Laura Whitmore had been known as the host of the dating show after three seasons of hosting, as she took on the role following Caroline Flack’s tragic death in 2020. But in 2022, Laura announced that she would be stepping down as host of the wildly popular series.
Speculations quickly started about who would step in to fill Laura’s role. A few months after the end of the 2022 series, it was announced that TV star Maya Jama would be hosting the winter edition of the show at the beginning of 2023.
Maya has now returned to host Love Island for the fourth time — here’s everything you need to know about her.
Who is Love Island UK’s Maya Jama?
Maya Jama is a 29-year-old presenter from Bristol, who has hosted a number of different popular television and radio shows throughout her career, with credits including “The Circle,” “Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star,” and her eponymous BBC Radio 1 show “Maya Jama.”
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Jama was announced as the new Love Island host in October 2022, much to the delight of fans who couldn’t wait to see the star take on the huge role. And after her huge success in the winter season of the show, the TV star has been hosting the dating series since 2023.
We’re coming in hot! 🔥 Love Island returns Monday 3rd June on ITV1, ITV2 and ITVX ❤️🔥 #LoveIsland pic.twitter.com/h9t3NctIjk
— Love Island (@LoveIsland) May 22, 2024
In a 2023 interview with The Times, Jama said: “Once you start doing TV, you meet a lot of producers, through different shows, and the heads will be aware of talent. That’s weird, to call yourself talent, isn’t it? I talk for a living. It’s not exactly tap dancing everywhere or performing a ballad.”
“So I think I’ve always been in their eye line, but I was super young when the presenter shifts were happening in the past.”
Jama went on to reveal that she didn’t have to audition for the role of Love Island host, and that she said yes “straight away.”
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