Maya Jama
Known for: Acting
Maya Jama is a British television presenter and radio DJ, born on 14 August 1994 in Bristol, England. She moved to London in 2012 to pursue a media career, first working as a presenter for JumpOff.TV and later for Sky UK's TRACE Sports. She joined MTV as a presenter in 2014 and went on to host programs including Cannonball, The Circle, and Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star. In radio, she hosted a drive-time show on Rinse FM from 2014 to 2017 and presented her own show on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020. Jama became the host of ITV2's Love Island from series 9 in 2023 and has since presented spin-offs including Love Island Games and Love Island: All Stars. She has also been a panel judge on ITV's The Masked Singer since 2025.
Filmography
Series
Celebrity Juice
Self
2008
Series
The Last Leg
Self
2013
Series
8 Out of 10 Cats
Self
2005
Series
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest
2011
Series
Would I Lie to You?
Self
2007
Series
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Self - Guest Judge
2019
Series
Big Fat Quiz
Self - Contestant
2004
Series
A League of Their Own
Self - Panellist
2010
Series
A League of Their Own
Guest
2010
Series
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self - Star Guest Announcer
2002
Series
Chicken Shop Date
Self - Guest
2014
Series
Love Island: All Stars
Self - Host
2024
Series
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
Herself - Host
2019
Series
The BRIT Awards
Self - Host
1977
Series
Love Island
Self - Host
2015
Series
The Circle
Herself - Host
2018
Series
The Masked Singer
Self - Panelist
2020
Series
Love Island: Aftersun
Self - Host
2017
Series
The Big Narstie Show
Self
2018
Series
The Celebrity Traitors
Self - Contestant
2025
Series
Love Island Games
Self - Host
2023
Series
Shopping with Keith Lemon
2019
Series
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
Self
2019
Series
Hometown Showdown
Self
2021
Series
This Morning
Self
1988
Series
Cannonball
Herself - Presenter
2017
Series
True Love or True Lies?
Herself (Presenter)
2018
V Festival
Presenter
Series
Revolution
Self - Presenter
2018
Walk the Line
Self - Presenter
2021
Film
Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money
Self
2024
Series
Mo Gilligan's All Star Happy Hour
Self
2020
Series
The Masked Singer: Unmasked
Self - Guest
2025
Film
The Big New Year's In
Presenter
2020
Film
Love Island: Decade of Love
Self (archive footage)
2025