Love Island 2023: Maya Jama has fans all saying the same thing

The TV and radio presenter, making her villa bow after replacing Laura Whitmore, won unanimous praise from viewers as she arrived in a sweeping gown with a plunging detail that enhanced her cleavage. 

Maya, 28, looked like she’d been presenting the show for years as she oversaw the first group coupling, however viewers were unimpressed with her ITV2 paymasters after the channel went into meltdown within seconds of its return. 

A series of technical glitches and screen freezes blighted the 90-minute launch, with Love Island returning to South Africa’s Cape Town after a three years absence. 

Exciting: The brand new series of Love Island kicked off on Monday evening and new host Maya Jama made her incredible debut in a stunning green plunging maxi dress

Maya took a seat next to the new boys as they gathered around the firepit for the first time time ever as she asked how they were feeling and what they are looking for. 

While the five new girls stood next to the pool of the new villa as they waited to see who would choose to couple up with them.

However, viewers were quick to compliment the host on Twitter, with one commenting: ‘Maya Jama outshining the female contestants, fancy going in and having to stand next to her’. 

Others joked: ‘Step forward if you fancy Maya Jama’ as she stole the show next to the bikini clad singletons. 

‘Maya Jama slaying as always,’ a third wrote. 

Another added: ‘Maya Jama is the best so far… I can’t see this changing’.  

‘Slaying’: The TV presenter, 28, strutted her stuff in the figure hugging number as she walked into the new South African villa in a sexy slow-mo clip

Dressed to impress: Speaking to the boys, she said: ‘Hello boys, you alright, shall we have a little chat?’ as they all gushed over how phenomenal she looked

Incredible: Viewers were quick to take to Twitter to say: ‘Maya Jama outshining the female contestants, fancy going in and having to stand next to her’

‘Wow’: Others joked: ‘Step forward if you fancy Maya Jama’ as she stole the show next to the bikini clad singletons

As if viewers hadn’t gone wild enough, the TV presenter, 28, then stunned fans as she appeared at the end of the episode in a little black dress.

Maya strutted her stuff in the figure hugging number as she walked into the South African villa in a classic slow-mo clip.

She made her way along the luxurious pool side to the fire pit where she greeted the new five sexy singletons and introduced the new bombshell.

Maya’s figure looked incredible as the dress was embellished with cut out details around her chest and stomach. She left little to the imagination as the dress reached her thigh – where it featured a slit going down her leg.

Taking to Twitter, one impressed viewer wrote: ‘Idk if I was on Love Island and Maya walked in, I’d step forward immediately.’ 

While a second quickly added: ‘No girl is gonna look better than Maya Jama on this season of Love Island.’  

Evidently in agreement, a third quipped: ‘Can ITV please just let us see Maya Jama every day because that black dress alone should win.’ 

Concerned: Fans quickly took to Twitter to ask others if they had the same issue, with one writing that it ‘had them bugging for a minute’

Fans also claimed the new presenter has already been in the villa more times than former host Laura Whitmore, 37, did during an entire series.

Taking to Twitter, viewers noted the extra screen time, with one tweeting: ‘Maya Jama’s already had more airtime than Laura Whitmore did for a whole series of #LoveIsland.’ 

Someone else wrote: ‘I swear Maya Jama has already spent more time in the Villa than Laura Whitmore did for the whole of last season #loveisland.’

‘We’ve seen more of Maya Jama in one episode than we did of Laura whitmore in a whole series #LoveIsland,’ asserted a third viewer.

Another fan of the show tweeted: ‘Ive seen Maya Jama in this villa more then i saw Laura Whitmore the whole of last year #loveisland.’ 

In July 2022, it was reported that former host Laura appeared in just 14 minutes of Love Island by half way into the summer series despite earning a rumoured £600,000 to host the show.

A total of 1,610 minutes of footage – almost 27 hours – of villa action was broadcast last year at the halfway point, according to The Sun.

The presenter had appeared on 13 minutes and 26 seconds of the main show up until that point, meaning she was paid the equivalent of £744 a second.

The first show of the winter series sent fans into panic as during the premiere episode some viewers noticed their TV suffered a ‘glitch’.  

Fans quickly took to Twitter to ask others if they had the same issue, with one writing that it ‘had them bugging for a minute’

‘WTF was that glitch had me bugging for a minute,’ one fan tweeted, while another wrote: ‘Was I the only one with a TV glitch?’ 

Sky made an embarrassing blunder on Monday night as the TV channel used a picture of Laura Whitmore to promote the new Love Island.

The television presenter, 37, stepped away from the ITV2 dating show last year, a role which she took on in 2020.

Awkward! Sky made an embarrassing blunder on Monday night as the TV channel used a picture of Laura Whitmore to promote the new Love Island

Oops! The television presenter, 37, stepped away from the ITV2 dating show last year, a role which she took on in 2020