Maya Jama reveals whether she’ll be on the next Love Island series and when next it starts filming
MAYA Jama has revealed her future on Love Island – and given huge clues as to when the next series will start filming.
The TV host will head to the Jonathan Ross Show this weekend, where she will reveal whether she’s set to host the summer series.
Maya, 28, took over from former host Laura Whitmore for the latest Winter Love Island – and was met with rave reviews from fans.
Fans of the ITV2 show have been patiently waiting for the star to confirm she will stay on ahead of another series this summer.
Now, the presenter has told Jonathan, 62, she has at last confirmed she will be heading back to the villa this summer.
“I’m going to be doing the summer one,” she will tell the talk show host on tonight’s Jonathan Ross Show.
“It starts in… summer,” she jokes, not wanting to reveal the exact date that the popular dating show would return to screens.
She adds of her role on the show: “I was so nervous. Obviously it’s a very big show, everyone watches it, everyone’s got an opinion.
“Quite a lot of people online were like, ‘We want Maya to host’. So it felt a bit like, I don’t want to let anyone down.
“I don’t want it to be like, ‘You guys wanted me to do it and now I’m s***’. So I felt that pressure, and to get the slow-motion walk right…”
Maya explains of filming her walk-in scenes: “You do a normal strut about three or four times. You have to ‘sexy it up’ a little bit.
“Me and my friends the night before I went had a big girls’ night and they were like ‘OK, show us how you’re going to walk.’
“As soon as I got there and the camera crew was there, I was like, ‘I can’t do it’, but you do it four or five times and they choose the best.”
Discussing the upcoming grand finale in South Africa, Maya says of who she thinks could win: “I’ve got to be really neutral don’t I? I’m not allowed to have favourites.”
She teases: “I really like Shaq just because he’s a hopeless romantic and he’s very cute and so in love. But then I also like Tom and Samie, they’re really fun and Tom’s gone on a journey.”
She adds of fan-favourite Will Young, 23: “He’s the fun one, he’s the silly one.”
It comes after Maya revealed she was due to return to the Love Island villa ahead of the huge grand finale episode on Monday.
Maya will be heading back to the villa in South Africa on Monday to announce the winners.
The couples still in the running are Will Young and Jessie Wynter, Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins, Tayna Menhenga and Shaq Muhammad, Tom Clare and Samie Elishi.
The Jonathan Ross Show airs tomorrow at 9:40pm on ITV and ITVX