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Maya Jama is reportedly quitting the UK and staying in her very own luxury villa in South Africa amid hosting the new series of Love Island All Stars.
The presenter, 30, usually jets back and forth between the country and her London home during the month of filming, with the stunner making brief appearances on the dating show.
However, this time around, Maya is allegedly making Cape Town her home-away-from-home as she's set to live in style in a lavish villa for the duration of the four-week show, reports The Sun.
Maya is set to jet off to South Africa next month when filming for the reality dating series begins.
A source told publication: 'Maya puts everything she has into Love Island - it’s so important to her so she’s moving out to South Africa again this year.
'She’ll be there the whole four weeks All Stars is on and can’t wait. The place she’s staying is really luxe!'
Maya Jama is reportedly quitting the UK and staying in her very own luxury villa in South Africa amid hosting the new series of Love Island All Stars
Maya is allegedly making Cape Town her home-away-from-home as she's set to live in style in a lavish villa for the duration of the four-week show, reports The Sun
If Maya does indeed set up home temporarily in the villa, then no doubt she'll be spared the jet lag from constantly jetting back and forth on flights.
MailOnline have contacted representatives of Maya and ITV for comment.
Maya is set to host the new series in January, with the premiere date for the show recently being revealed.
ITV announced this week that the start date for the reality dating series is just weeks away and will begin on January 13 at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
The news was revealed on the show's Instagram page alongside a photograph of an invitation which was addressed to 'dating royalty'.
The white invitation with gold and black writing, read: 'Dear Islander, as dating royalty, you are cordially invited back to the villa as a Love Island All Star.'
It comes after host Maya Jama and ITV were forced to deny claims that the presenter was planning to leave the show.
ITV has denied reports Maya will step down, with a spokesperson telling MailOnline: 'We are very much committed to Maya, who is a brilliant Love Island host, and we have no plans for a presenter change.'
The presenter, 30, usually jets back and forth between the country and her London home during the month of filming, with the stunner making brief appearances on the dating show
A source said; 'Maya puts everything she has into Love Island - it’s so important to her so she’s moving out to South Africa again this year'
The presenter is thought to earn £750,000 per series for the hosting role after she took over from Laura Whitmore in January 2023.
At the time, Maya said it had been a lifelong dream to host Love Island, expressing how thrilled she was to finally achieve it.
Former Love Island star Maura Higgins had been tipped to be Maya's replacement.
Meanwhile, it was recently revealed Maya has become a multi-millionaire following the success of her TV career and business ventures.
The TV presenter has published accounts for her business MIJ & Co Entertainment which show assets in the company have increased to £1.83million from £1.37million.
The star appears to have doubled her earnings as she has cash worth £1.3million in the account over the last three months but had £618,774 the previous year.
Maya split with long term love, rapper Stormzy in July but the bump in her personal life hasn't stopped her career from reaching new heights.
She landed the full time role as Love Island’s number one presenter when Laura stood down.
Since then she has hosted Love Island Games, Love Island All Stars and series 11 which went out in June and July.
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