Love Island's Maya Jama confirms split from Stormzy telling fans 'it just didn’t work'

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Maya Jama has confirmed the end of her relationship with Stormzy. The Love Island host took to social media with the news, saying she and her former rapper partner were 'laughing' at the fact they felt they needed to issues a statement on the status of their romance.

The Love Island presenter, 29, and the rapper, 30, had been back together officially since August 2023 when they confirmed their relationship status during a loved-up holiday in Greece.

They got back together five years after their first split following a five year relationship. On Wednesday (July 17), Maya posted a long statement to Instagram which read: "We've been laughing whilst drafting this because we never, ever, in a million years thought we'd be the couple announcing a breakup, but for the sake of clarity and, more importantly, to allow us the space and grace that's needed for us both to be able to navigate this next bit of our lives with peace, we thought it might be best to." READ MORE: Stacey Solomon says she's a 'horrible person' as Joe Swash 'fuming' over 'absolute dream' Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link Describing their love story, she continued: "We fell madly in love in 2014, broke up in 2019, and then spent five years manoeuvring life apart.

We decided to try for the final time in August 2023, and we've spent this past year trying our best to make it work; however, we recently decided to call it quits. " She continued: "We were 21 and 20 when we first met-both at the beginning of our careers-and spent five years growing together and then five years growing separately. "So this final attempt required a whole lot of figuring out, relearning, and We still think the absolute world of each