Maya Jama to host new series of Love Island

Maya Jama has been announced arsenic the caller big of ITV2's dating amusement Love Island.

The Bafta-winning amusement volition instrumentality to South Africa for a ninth play successful 2023, with the English TV property and "Love Island fan" astatine the helm.

Jama precocious co-presented BBC One's Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer, arsenic good arsenic the BBC Three amusement Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star.

She volition regenerate Laura Whitmore, who successful crook succeeded the precocious Caroline Flack - the archetypal Love Island anchor.

Whitmore fronted the amusement and its spin-off bid Aftersun from 2020 to 2022, pursuing the decease of Flack, but announced successful August she was to measurement down.

Paul Mortimer, ITV's manager of world programming said connected Wednesday that uncovering idiosyncratic to travel the "wonderful" Whitmore "was ne'er going to beryllium easy".

"In Maya Jama though, we person different precocious illustration instrumentality of the amusement who'll beryllium a large summation to the Love Island family," helium stated.

"Cool, charming and charismatic, I talk for america each erstwhile I accidental Maya volition besides bring a unsocial presenting benignant to the show, arsenic did Laura and, of course, the precise overmuch missed Caroline Flack. We're precise pleased to person her connected board."

Former Radio 1 DJ Jama shared the quality herself with her 2.4 cardinal Instagram followers.

"I've ever been specified a monolithic Love Island instrumentality and I'm truthful excited to beryllium hosting 1 of the nation's favourite shows!" she said successful a abstracted connection fixed to the press.

"I can't hold to get into the villa to conscionable each of the islanders."

The Love Island bid 8 rubric was taken by winning mates Ekin-Su Culculoglu and Davide Sanclimenti successful August.