Love Island host Maya Jama has revealed that she once turned up to her BBC job wearing a mermaid costume following a memorable night out. The Bristol beauty, who first shot to fame as a DJ for Radio One, confessed to being a pint-swilling cider drinker.
According to the Mirror, Maya wore the costume to a Halloween party the night before and, despite only having half an hour's sleep, still made it into the office for work. She said: "I drink loads of pints. Cider. I’m from Bristol.
She said: “I don’t really get hangovers. Not properly. I get tired.” The star went on to reveal details of the mermaid costume incident which saw some reaction from the 'BBC news people'.
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She said: “I didn’t change out of my Halloween costume and I went straight into radio the next day.
“I had about half an hour of sleep. It was a shell-t**ted mermaid costume with a big, long glittery tail and green dreadlocks and I had loads of stuff on my face... walking through the BBC at 8am with all the BBC news people like, ‘What the f*** is going on here?’.”
Maya, who has been filming Love Island segments in South Africa, has also signed to host the summer series. It comes as reports suggest one Love Island fan-favourite couple is set to be dumped from the island just days away from this series finale.
On Friday night's episode of the show, Will Young and Jessie Wynter, Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins, and Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan were informed that they'd landed in the bottom three of the cast's vote for compatibility meaning their dreams of winning the £50,000 cash prize were in danger.
Viewers were left hanging as the show ended with the islanders being told all vulnerable couples were at risk. According to The Sun, the next couple to leave the villa is one of this year's favourite couples.
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