Love Island host Maya Jama to follow in Molly-Mae Hague's footsteps in major career move

We might be about to see a lot more of Maya Jama as she eyes up a huge career move. The Love Island hostis looking to cash in on her popularity by launching her own YouTube series.

Sources close to the presenter, 30, say she’s keen to follow in the footsteps of influencers such as Molly-Mae Hague, who make millions from their content. Maya even teased the plans on Instagram, calling out the “lurking likers”.

She wrote: “10 million eyes on my last post and 115 million in the last 30 days. The lurking to like ratio is crazy. Maybe I do need to start YouTube so I can convert the watchers to money.” It comes after Maya looked happier than ever as she shared a series of romantic snaps with Man City boyfriend Ruben Dias.

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Maya first set up a YouTube channel 12 years ago but hasn’t updated it for a long time. Now sources say she has had conversations about how to monetise her popularity.

“Maya is very business minded,” the insider said. “She wants to make the most of her earning potential and realises Instagram is not financially viable.”

Molly-Mae’s YouTube channel has more than two million subscribers and acts as a significant income stream through ad revenue and brand deals.

The former Love Islander reportedly earned £4,000 in just 24 hours for her birth vlog.

Maya, who will front the Love Island final on Monday, has her fingers in a number of pies. As well as presenting, she recently landed her “dream role” as a gangster’s wife in Guy Ritchie’s hit Netflix series, The Gentlemen.

She also co-owns the Swedish plant-based milk company Sproud and also has eye mask firm MIJ Masks, as well as big brand deals with Rimmel London cosmetics and Gordon’s Gin.

The big news comes after Maya took the major step of going Instagram official with the new man in her life, Manchester City footballer Ruben Dias. And it looks as though things have been going from strength to strengthover recent months, if her latest post is anything to go by.

Maya took time out of her filming duties to spend quality time with Ruben on the party island of Ibiza. In one snap, Maya is seen cuddled into Ruben laughing coyly.

Meanwhile, Ruben placed his head down towards her in a loving embrace.

But this is not the first time Maya has posted holiday snaps of the pair. Back in January was the first time the TV presenter posted loved up snaps of the pair while on holiday.

Speculation over Maya dating Ruben first started to circulate on News Year's Eve in December last year.

This came after the pair bumped into each other at the MTV Europe Music Awards, in Manchester in November.

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