While Maya Jama is merrily overseeing the couplings, re-couplings, break ups and heartfelt moments of Love Island her own love life is creaking apart in the background.
The 28-year-old TV host surprised fans in 2021 when she embarked on a high profile romance with Australian basketball hunk Ben Simmons, 26 - two years after her doomed romance with music star Stormzy, 29.
The attractive pair appeared to get on like a house on fire and were soon engaged - but the romance crumbled by August 2022 and reports have since emerged suggesting Ben demanded her $1 million (£800,000) engagement ring be returned.
Now it seems Ben has moved on - as he has been spotted out and about on a date with Hollywood actress Eiza Gonzalez in New York on Friday.
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Getty Images)A source blabbed to The Sun on Sunday: “The pair have been quietly getting to know each other for a while now and it feels like romance is on the cards.
“Ben wanted to draw a line under his relationship with Maya, hence demanding the ring back.”
Maya and Ben’s engagement lasted just eight months before it crashed and burned.
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Instagram)Last month, reports raged that Ben was demanding the expensive ring he proposed with back - and that legal proceedings had been launched to ensure the ring’s safe return.
One of Ben’s friends reportedly said at the time: "Ben was really shocked when she left and didn’t give him the ring back.
"He was madly in love with her and thought it was forever so was really p***ed she didn’t give it back. It cost around $1million and they were engaged less than a year."
The pair had first started dating in May 2021 before making it official two months later - and they went on to confirmed their relationship with an affectionate PDA at 2021's Wimbledon Tennis Championship that July.
But the relationship collapsed after they tried and failed to make a cross-Atlantic relationship work.
A source told the NY Post last year: "While they both care for each other so much, they truly gave it their all and realise that they just come from two different worlds.
"It's been a difficult time for them. They now understand they don't have the time they thought to dedicate to this relationship."
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WireImage)The source also explained that the pair hope to stay in each other's lives, as "there is a lot of love between them".
Before Ben, Maya dated Stormzy, aka Michael Owuo Jr, from 2015 until 2019 - with the break-up inspired his 2019 song Lessons.
