Maya Jama and Stormzy have split after disagreements over when to start a family, MailOnline can reveal.
Love Island host Maya, 29, and the BRIT Award winner, 30, announced they had “recently decided to separate” with a joint statement on Instagram on Wednesday.
They confirmed that this split is final after having gone their separate ways after a five-year relationship in 2019 and reconnecting last August.
Sources told MailOnline that the couple were conflicted about when to settle down, with Stormzy keen to have children sooner rather than later.
Maya, who is at the height of her career as the face of luxury fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana, an ambassador for Rimmel London and is sought after by streaming giant Netflix, wanted to wait until she had babies.
Maya Jama and Stormzy have split after disagreements over when to start a family, MailOnline reveals
Love Island host Maya and the BRIT Award winner announced they had “recently decided to separate” with a joint statement on Instagram on Wednesday (pictured December 2023)
The ITV presenter attended Wimbledon on Saturday without Stormzy, although he did make an appearance at the sporting event days earlier.
Stormzy was invited to Evian’s Mountain of Youth VIP suite on Thursday, days before the couple announced their split for the second time.
A source close to the couple revealed: ‘Maya and Stormzy are on very different pages when it comes to their future.
‘Stormzy was keen to settle down and start a family, while Maya is enjoying her career, is ambitious and wants to prioritise achieving as much as she can.
‘She also loves to travel and party, but at just 29 she’s not ready for the next chapter yet.’
Maya and Stormzy made separate appearances at Wimbledon last week, with the rapper attending Evian’s Mountain of Youth VIP suite alone on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Maya partied until the early hours of the morning at celebrity hangout Chiltern Firehouse, discreetly leaving the venue at 4.30am on Friday.
They were last seen together holding hands on July 5 at the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone, where Stormzy put in a standout performance.
The couple also attended the Glastonbury festival last month before Maya flew by helicopter to the ITV studios, where she presents Love Island spin-off show Aftersun live on a Sunday night.
She last appeared on screen during Tuesday night’s instalment, where she tasked Welsh couple Ciaran Davies and Nicole Samuel with eliminating one of three couples voted least compatible by the public.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Maya and Stormzy for comment.
Maya was last seen on screen during Tuesday night’s instalment of Love Island, where she gave Welsh couple Ciaran Davies and Nicole Samuel the task of eliminating one of the three couples.
In the couple’s statement, they retold their love story, documenting the five years they spent living separate lives (photo from June 2017)
In recent weeks, Stormzy has launched House Party, a bar he co-founded in Soho, London, which has been transformed to look and feel like an old-school house party.
Maya shared a video on her Instagram Story from the star-studded launch night on June 6, where the couple were joined by the likes of Louise Redknapp and Julie Adenuga.
Stormzy released his debut EP Dreamers Disease the same year he began dating Maya, with the pair referring to 2014 as the year they “fell madly in love”.
In their statement, they retold their love story, documenting the five years they spent living separate lives.
During that time, Maya was engaged to American basketball star Ben Simmons, but they called off their engagement after eight months.
Maya and Stormzy first split in 2019 amid speculation the rapper had been unfaithful, later confessing in the song Lessons: “I looked at the information and then I thought you’d dig it up.”
Writing on Instagram, they said: ‘We fell madly in love in 2014, split in 2019 and spent five years living life apart.
‘We decided to give it one last try in August 2023, and we’ve spent the past year doing everything we can to make it work; however, we recently decided to call it quits.
“We were 21 and 20 when we met, both early in our careers, and we spent five years growing together and five years growing apart, so this latest attempt required a lot of analyzing, relearning and unlearning. We tried it and it didn’t work, and that’s OK.”
