Maya Jama is way out of Leonardo DiCaprio’s league – I hope she doesn’t leave Love Island, says Jessie Wynter
MAYA Jama oversaw a batch of sexy singletons looking for romance in the Love Island villa – and she’s now landed her own man in the form of Hollywood hunk Leonardo DiCaprio.
While the A list actor, 48, is renowned for having a younger beauty on his arm, islander Jessie Wynter, 26, believes in demand Maya, 28, could do better and hopes she doesn’t ditch the villa for Tinseltown.
In an exclusive interview, she says: “Leonard DiCaprio is punching above his weight! We would love to see Maya Jama on Love Island again. I think she’s out of his league, but yeah, Maya could be going to the US. We’d be sad to see her leave Love Island though because I think she did an amazing job. She brought so much to this season.”
Even though she’s been hanging out with Leo in London, Paris and New York, Love Island fans needn’t worry about Maya abandoning the show of LA just yet.
It was recently revealed that show bosses have tied her down for the summer series after being impressed with her presenting skills on the winter edition of the show.
And the contestants were equally as enamoured with the host.
Jessie says: “I was shocked when I met Maya because she’s so nice. She just spoke to us like normal people there was no separation, she wasn’t better than us, she was really loving and caring and I think she was really invested in what was going on.
“You can be intimated by people, for me personally, that’s someone I would be intimidated by but she was so loving and caring, we even met her mum and her mum came and got a photo with me and gave us a hug.”
Maya is slightly older than Leo’s usual type with the actor often mocked for his penchant for ditching dates before they turn 25.
But it appears the Brit is worth breaking his age limit for as he sent her roses after their first meeting earlier this year.
A source told us: “Maya and Leo are in regular contact and have been on a string of dates.
“They have both recently come out of long-term relationships so neither of them are rushing into anything — they are having fun and seeing how it goes.
“They live in different countries and Maya has had a long distance relationship before and knows it’s tough, so they are taking things a day at a time. Leo has certainly been wooing her though, he loves spending time with her.”
Meanwhile, Jessie is relishing life on boyfriend Will Young’s family farm in Buckinghamshire.
She has fit in effortlessly with the Youngs and tells us that life in the farm is far better than the Love Island villa.
“It has been a million times better since we left the villa,” she says. “We are so much happier. The villa was a very stressful environment.
“Inside the villa, Will and I were best best friends in there and we were always together, so we were pretty strong straight from the start because we had that friendship bond already.
“Now we’re out of the villa, it’s so much better. No one’s coming at you for no reason, no more questioning who’s genuine and bringing up things that happened in Casa. It’s really nice for him and I to go through things on our own.”