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Bristol Post
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Zhara Simpson

Love Island's Maya Jama gets 'extra airtime' with 50% more time than Laura Whitmore

Love Island fans can expect to see a lot more of Maya Jama, the new host of the ITV2 reality series, with ITV bosses already giving her nearly double the screen time compared to former presenter Laura Whitmore. It's reported the star has racked up more than 19 minutes of screen time in the first week of the 2023 winter series.

Maya, from Bristol, has been on our screens for a total of 19 minutes and 55 seconds so far, which is six minutes and 29 seconds more than Whitmore, who hosted the 2022 summer series of Love Island. It's also 6.9 per cent of the total airtime so far. By the same point long-running host Laura, 37, had only racked up 4.6 per cent.

OK! reports that ever since Caroline Flack, who sadly died in February 2020, presented her first series, fans of the popular dating show have always kept track of the host's screen time.

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