.MayaJama loves unapologetically hard. But, an astrology devotee with Scorpio moon tendencies, does not suffer fools. So is she still looking for love? “That’s all I ever want. I want a best friend that I’m in love with. And I have had that before.”
Contestant body types tend to be almost archaic: Barbie for women and King Triton for men. Does Jama think the show needs more diversity? “I don’t know. I always want to watch any show and be like, ‘There’s someone from everywhere.’” Whatever the casting they always get complaints, she adds. “You can’t please everybody.
She’s a fantasy of sorts. It’s this palpable feeling of an exceptionally hot woman who you might just be friends with, who you might just have a chance with. She oozes ease: “My friends take the piss, saying, ‘She’s the people’s princess,’” she says, cracking up. “Can you imagine? I wouldn’t last a day.” She thinks about it some more. “The people that do really like me, I feel like they see a bit of themselves in me.
A week earlier we meet for lunch at The Twenty Two, a members’ club and hotel in Mayfair. For someone who’s amassed a lot of column inches, Maya has only given a handful of interviews like this. She’s hot off a flight from Shanghai “for a hol because I’ve only ever seen China in films”. I’m acutely aware how first impressions of women get reported in magazines: “She saunters in looking dazzling in jeans and not a scrap of make-up.
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