Want to tune into more Maya Jama-fronted TV shows? Here's everything the presenter has starred in

Want more Maya Jama TV content in your life? We relate and while the presenter has returned as Love Island 2023's host (here's how to start watching Love Island UK if you haven't already), she thankfully also has quite a wealth of TV projects under her belt. 

Is there anything  can't do? Evidently not, as she is both killing it career-wise—what with fronting ITV's most iconic dating show—and fashion-wise, thanks to her 

While she's been very successful in other areas of her life (from her jaw-dropping red-carpet looks and Love Island outfits, crazy Halloween parties and her successful MIJ Masks business) her greatest achievement (so far) has been her super successful broadcasting career. So what are the top Maya Jama TV shows, and what might you have seen her hosting? 

Maya Jama TV shows—what programs has the presenter hosted?

1. Love Island

October 2022 brought with it the very exciting news that Maya would be the new host of Love Island UK, after the previous host Laura Whitmore decided to step down from the role. When Laura announced that she was quitting the show, swathes of fans were desperate for Maya to host, saying she'd be perfect for the job—and it seems their wishes came true!

When the news was announced, Maya said: "I’ve always been such a massive Love Island fan and I’m so excited to be hosting one of the nation’s favorite shows! I can’t wait to get into the Villa to meet all of the Islanders."

Now, following her successful stint on Winter Love Island, the presenter has returned to host Love Island 2023 and will hopefully help the new Love Island cast find their love matches...

2. Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star

Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star—or just Glow Up, as you may otherwise know it—is a UK-based reality TV show that was created with the aim of finding the next big make-up artist. While it began in 2019, Maya didn't join the cast until its third season in 2021, when the original host Stacey Dooley stepped down due to other work commitments.

Maya hosted the third season, which aired in April 2021, and the fourth season, which aired on BBC Three in May 2022 across eight episodes. She stepped down because of Love Island, making way for Leomie Anderson to be the new presenter. If you have access to the BBC iPlayer, it's a great weekend binge-watch—especially for make-up lovers!

3. Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer

In the summer of 2020, Maya was a co-host on the BBC show Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer. The eight-episode series was originally created to cover the European Soccer competition that year, but when the event was canceled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was reconfigured to cover music, sport and comedy in general—all of the things we were missing out on during that time!

4. The Circle

The Circle, a reality/social media show, has been a smash hit in both the UK and the US, and Maya co-hosted the first season of the UK series, which aired on Channel 4, back in 2018. Maya worked on the show with Alice Levine, before they were both replaced by Emma Willis in season two, which hit screens in 2019. 

The show is a hybrid mix of social media and reality TV, and sees all contestants living in the same apartment building, crafting profiles and speaking only via a social media app, 'The Circle'. But the catch is that all contestants are competing for a $100,000/£100,000 prize—and they can lie, catfish, and flirt their way there, if they wish! 

Speaking about what drew her to presenting the show back in 2018, Maya said: "'I'm a social media and reality TV addict, so combining the two is pretty much my dream outcome. It's a fascinating social experiment."

5. Don't Hate The Playaz

This is one of Maya's most regular TV gigs, and she's been a co-host on the music-based panel show for the last four years. The show—which airs on the UK channel ITV2, is hosted by Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens and involves a series of challenges and questions, with the aim of a certain team winning each episode.

Maya is a Team Captain on Don't Hate The Playaz, and plays against fellow Team Captain Lady Leshurr, alongside a host of celebrities on each of their teams. In the past, guests have included Strictly star Oti Mabuse, comedian Katherine Ryan, the So Solid Crew, Love Island's Dami Hope and Indiyah Polack, and rapper Professor Green.

Not only is Maya a co-host on the show, but she also regularly shows off her impressive rapping skills on there too! She often takes part in freestyle raps as part of the show, most famously doing a coronavirus-themed rap back in October 2020. Yep, it was as good as it sounds!

Fun fact: DJ and presenter Snoochie Shy, half-sister of current Love Island contestant Zachariah Noble, has also been on the show.

6. Walk The Line

In 2021, Maya landed one of the biggest hosting jobs of her career, fronting Simon Cowell's brand new music competition game show, which aired on the British channel ITV. The premise of the program was for five musical acts to compete for a huge £500,000 prize.

After each episode, one of the five acts was crowned the winner of that episode. But the twist was that each winner had to decide whether to return to the show the next episode and perform again—running the risk that they may not win a second time and that they may be dropped from the competition. The catch? If they walked away after the first episode, they could bag a consolatory prize of £10,000—an amount that rose higher each night.

It was a star-studded show, with the judging panel including Dawn French, Gary Barlow, Craig David and Alesha Dixon—but sadly, it was canceled after just one season.

7. True Love or True Lies

Another reality show with an intriguing premise, Maya hosted True Love or True Lies on MTV in 2018, before being replaced by Love Island star Dani Dyer, and her father Danny Dyer for the second series in 2019.

In the show, a host of couples gathered together in a house, but the catch is that not all of them are real couples—some are faking it in order to win the show's cash prize. 

The series was the first 'proper reality TV show' (in her own words) that Maya had presented solo, so despite the fact that she only worked on it for a season, it definitely seems to have been a career highlight.