Maya Jama has shared particulars of a considerate present her boyfriend Ruben Dias picked for her birthday.
The Love Island host, 31, confirmed she was relationship the Portuguese footballer, 28, after they reportedly met on the European Music Awards in November.
After they have been first noticed collectively on New 12 months’s Eve, Maya then went public together with her beau earlier this summer time when posting a sequence of snaps with him on a luxurious yacht off the Amalfi Coast.
Final week Maya celebrated her birthday and has now shared particulars of a candy current he bought for her.
Posting a photograph holding the ebook A Grave for a Dolphin whereas sitting on a mattress, she defined: ‘He obtained me this ebook for my birthday as a result of it’s apparently certainly one of Iman’s favorite books and he is aware of how a lot I really like her.’
‘And I’ve lastly completed Yellowface,’ she added.
Maya then went on to share that ‘studying has genuinely made me spend half the period of time on my telephone not too long ago’.
Written by Italian creator Alberto Denti di Pirajno and revealed in 1956, A Grave for a Dolphin instantly impressed David Bowie’s track Heroes, which was documented in his foreword to his spouse’s memoir, I’m Iman, 2001.
Maya and Ruben’s romance was revealed in a very sudden manner by broadcaster Gary Lineker.
In March Maya was introduced because the co-manager for the Baller League UK, a celebrity-backed six-a-side soccer competitors.
However when showing in a promo video for it, departing Match of the Day host Gary emerged within the footage to jokingly reference rumours of her relationship with Ruben.
After he urged Maya to ‘get her boyfriend to play for us’, she quipped: ‘Get out! That is why I don’t discuss to outdated individuals. They’re so bizarre.’
Ruben performs centre-back for Manchester Metropolis and for his house nation’s nationwide crew.
He’s considered one of many world’s finest defenders, having signed to Man Metropolis in 2020 for a reported €68 million (£57m).
The footballer was beforehand in a relationship with Portuguese singer-songwriter April Ivy from 2018 to 2021, and had additionally been linked to Love Island star Arabella Chi.
Maya beforehand dated Stormzy from 2014 till 2019 and was then engaged to Australian basketball participant Ben Simmons, nevertheless they broke up in 2022.
She later obtained again along with Stormzy in 2023, they ended up splitting just below a yr later, sharing a press release on Instagram that defined: ‘We tried, and it didn’t work, and that’s okay.’
‘We nonetheless assume absolutely the world of one another, we nonetheless care and respect one another, we’re nonetheless grateful for the time we’ve had collectively, and we’re nonetheless buddies and can all the time be buddies (so for those who see us having a lil catch-up at The Brits or one thing, don’t trigger a fuss, we’re dawgs!).
‘Saying this feels so dramatic, however we’re doing it in order that it sort of takes away the drama and avoids hypothesis and rumours. We’re kindly asking for the grace to let each of us maintain it transferring and never be bothered about it (we extremely doubt this’ll work, however we’re nonetheless kindly asking anyway.’
Final yr – the identical month she met Ruben – she spoke about on the lookout for a lifelong accomplice.
‘I’m so completely happy proper now however the subsequent individual I meet I need to marry and have children with, so clearly I’m feeling fussy. I’ve created such a pleasant life for myself alone and I don’t need anybody who’s not going so as to add to that,’ she informed The Customary.
‘I’m on this beautiful bubble and I don’t need you except you make me completely happy. If you happen to’re not, I sort of don’t want you.
‘One factor I’ve discovered: some individuals are like, “I’m lonely, I want somebody”. However the mission in life is to make your self completely happy, then discover somebody who brings one thing that matches that to the desk.’
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