Maya Jama is the host of Love Island UK, which is wrapping up its summer season in the Mallorca villa.

The UK’s ITV2 dating series streams on Hulu in the United States, and Jama’s profile continues to grow among American audiences. The Disney-owned streamer has plastered billboards of Jama all over major cities promoting the show, with the presenter telling Deadline it’s “wild.”

“It’s been amazing. I get sent photos of those billboards, which is wild to be honest,” Jama told us in a recent interview. “I’ve got some friends that live [in America], and they’re like, ‘Look! There’s your big head next to Kim Kardashian.’ So that’s crazy.”

Although Jama explained she doesn’t get actual viewing numbers from Hulu, she’s noticed an influx of fans reaching out to her on social media telling her things like, “I love you from Wisconsin,” adding, “I’m like, ‘This is cute. This is crazy,’ and it’s amazing.”

Jama is the ultimate bombshell of Love Island, and one of the gripes viewers have had this season was that she didn’t make more appearances in the villa, but the host thinks that might’ve been for a good reason.

“I was actually upset myself,” Jama said about her limited time in the villa this season. “I’m like, ‘Hey, I’m ready. Put me in.’ But the producers know what they’re doing. I think they just had so much drama and entertainment backed up that they’re like, ‘We don’t actually need you in here yet.’ Now we’re at the end of the series; I’ve actually been in a couple more times, but yeah, I was on hiatus, not by choice.”

The Love Island villa is set in Mallorca, Spain, and every Sunday, Jama hosts the weekly companion series Love Island Aftersun in London. Jama explained that her turning up in the villa is “very dependent on what’s happening,” adding, “I’m always on standby for the whole two months, and then usually they’ll know about a week before, sometimes even like four days before if they want to send me in. So when I’m booking other jobs and things, it’s penciled in, but if I have to go in the villa last minute, we’re gonna have to move.”

Jama is a beloved host, and one of the things that viewers like is how she handles difficult situations in the villa, with the presenter saying, “Love Island knew who I was when they employed me, and I’ve never been just like a straight read-the-script-down-the-line presenter. I think there’s definitely a human aspect to Love Island, and it’s real feelings and emotions and people are falling in love and falling out of love, and they’re arguing, and that’s all real.”

“If I’m there and I’m the person that they’re looking to, I will treat them as humans too and react,” she continued. “I would act as if it was one of my friends that stormed off crying or whoever. The editors can take it out if they want, but I will always add a bit of a human aspect.”

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That humanity that Jama shows to the Islanders on Love Island is also something she practices in her life, helping out young women who look up to her and also want a career in entertainment with a mentorship program she spearheads.

“I have always wanted to do something like it, and I’ve kind of just helped out on the sideline, not officially. Young girls [have reached] out to me throughout my career and say, ‘Hey, do you have any advice on this and that? And when the opportunity came about to do it officially and actually take on however many women, young women from not so privileged backgrounds, like myself from where I came from, it was just like, ‘100% Let’s do this,'” she said. “I was lucky enough to have a bunch of women that I’ve worked with and have personal friendships with from different sides of the industry that were super happy to be on board and really got involved and took the mentees on as like their own children.”

She continued, “I just think because it is really difficult to enter this industry and to just even know where to start. But there’s so many talented young people, and they don’t have the resources and they don’t have the connections and they don’t have the hand to help them. It was kind of a no-brainer. Our first one went so well. Loads of the girls have jobs in their dream fields, and took so many things from the experience that now, doing it again, I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s keep going.’ I wish I could do it for millions and millions of people. We’re two in, and hopefully it keeps going.”

Those interested in Jama’s mentorship program can look at her socials for how to sign up.

With the Love Island Season 13 finale coming up, Jama also teased what viewers can expect for the finale.

“I will be in the villa again before the final, maybe once, maybe twice. So that’s exciting,” she said. “They don’t let me tell you, guys, anything. They did tell me that this final is going to be a bit different to the rest of them. They’re shaking up the format. I still don’t even know what that shakeup is, but I know there’s going to be a different format for the final. Live TV is my favorite. This is where I thrive because I can say silly things and go off script as much as possible without them being able to edit it out.”

The Love Island UK Season 13 finale is set for Monday, July 27 on ITV2 in the UK, with U.S. audiences able to stream the final episode on Thursday, July 30 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

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