Love Love Island? Our Factor 50 email brings all the goss direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Love Love Island? Our Factor 50 email brings all the goss direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Maya Jama turns 30 on 14 August – and she’s packed a lot into her life so far. With more than 3.2 million Instagram followers and four seasons of Love Island under her belt, it’s safe to say that Maya is TV’s golden girl.
But, as she celebrates another successful year, what is the Bristol-born star’s secret? “You’ve got to keep trying because you don’t know what amazing things are round the corner,” she smiled, when asked about life’s most important lessons. “Also, always be grateful – at one point you wished to be where you are today.” Maya – who moved to London at just 16 years old – has been climbing that ladder of success for years, beginning her presenting career as a teen when she hosted the weekly music video countdown on JumpOff.
TV. She later worked for Sky UK on TRACE Sports and in 2014 she hosted Maya’s FIFA World Cup Cities for Copa90, a travelogue covering the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The star joined MTV as a presenter for The Wrap Up in 2014 and soon began working as a radio DJ.
However, it was in 2017 when things really hit big for her. Aged 23, she became the youngest person to co-host the MOBO Awards, alongside Marvin Humes. And just one year later, she was scooped up to co-host the first series of Channel 4’s The Ci.