Maya Jama and Stormzy spotted ‘catching up’ backstage at All Points East festival as she returns from Ibiza to support her ex

Maya Jama and Stormzy were spotted backstage at All Points East festival on Friday night.

The Love Island host, 29, and rapper, 30, who split in 2019 after four years together, reunited after his headline slot at London’s Victoria Park.

Maya watched his two-hour set front row alongside friends Idris Elba and YouTuber Chunkz after flying back from Ibiza to support her ex.

A spectator told The sun: Maya and Stormzy may not be officially dating anymore, but they are still close and grew up together.

“She’s really proud of him and vice versa. They will always have a special bond.

“They spent time catching up and chatting, people watching them and giving them their space.”

MailOnline has reached out to representatives for Maya and Stormzy for comment.

During his performance, Stormzy told the audience, “This is one of the best nights of my life. This is my hometown. You are my family.

“As long as I’m here, and as long as I have a career, I won’t stop saying ‘thank you’. You have changed my life. You changed my family’s life.’

He released hit songs like Vossi Bop and Clash and was joined by fellow London rapper Nucks, Sampha, American star Kehlani and Ms. Banks.

It comes after Maya spoke candidly about her love life as a British Vogue cover star in August.

The host has had high-profile relationships, was previously engaged to NBA star Ben Simmons and dated Stormzy.

Her romance with the British rapper in particular drew attention, with fans championing two children from immigrant families and their success story.

Maya, who is half Swedish and half Somali, said of the reaction to her romance with Stormzy, who is of Ghanaian descent, “None of us really knew how important it was to a certain group of people, our being together.

“We were both super ambitious. We both came from the same upbringing and we were both just little entrants who made something good of ourselves.’

The pair split in 2019 after four years, and when questioned about their split, she mused, “It was lovely when it was lovely, and then you move on.”

Describing how she handles breakups, Maya confessed, “Yeah, I have that hardness. I don’t want revenge, I just want you to always feel like “I’m so damn sad I lost them.” You are going to miss my presence because of my absence.

“The best thing you can do is try to do everything that made you happy before you met them.”

Support: Maya watched his two-hour set front row alongside friends Idris Elba and YouTuber Chunkz after flying back from Ibiza to support her ex

Catching up: The Love Island presenter, 29, and rapper, 30, who split in 2019 after four years together, reunited after his headline slot in London’s Victoria Park

During his performance, Stormzy told the audience, “This is one of the best nights of my life. This is my hometown. You are my family.’

Despite her heartbreak, Maya revealed that she doesn’t let dating stop her.

Asked if she still wants love, she revealed, “Yeah. Actual love. That’s all I ever want. Just real love. I want a best friend that I’m in love with. And I’ve had that before.’

Maya is believed to have remained single since she split from fiancé Ben last summer after a year-long romance, but has been linked to the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Drake.

But while she’s open to dating, Maya revealed that she won’t be turning to her own show to find The One, laughing at the idea of ​​appearing on Love Island.

“I wouldn’t be able to walk out of the house in a bikini at any age to men who judge me based on just one sentence and how I look,” she admitted.

‘The trust of the people who continue! They have a different kind of juice.’

Surprisingly, Maya confessed that she didn’t get much male attention back in the day and “wasn’t even remotely considered pretty all my school days.”

As for the public interest in her dating life, Maya revealed that she prefers to keep things quiet, noting, “I’m not one to put all my business out there.”

“I never really sacrificed my private life, I just did my job and that’s part of it. So I think I have a right to keep some bits private.’

As for being in the public eye, she admitted she was aware of being divided, saying, “The people who really like me, I feel like they see a little bit of themselves in me.”

“And then the other people say, ‘Who the hell is this bitch and what the hell is she doing?'”

Being a public figure, she is under constant scrutiny and tries to stay away from social media and the cruel comments posted on it.

Maya recalled, “I always thought my teeth were fine, never blinked, and then I read a tweet that said, “I really love that Maya kept her natural teeth and didn’t fix them.”

“My number one rule is not to look at reactions, but I had a relapse. Maybe it’s because you don’t have to show your picture, or you don’t have to show your name, but there’s just a huge, huge community of people who are just horrible, horrible people.

And they all combine in this small space and they believe everything they read and they think everyone is disgusting. I was called something like broken home b***h!’

Representation: Maya dated Stormzy for four years until 2019 and when questioned about her breakup, she mused, ‘It was lovely when it was lovely, and then you move on’

Elsewhere in the chat, Maya revealed the reason why she cut ties with her estranged father when she was just 12.

The Love Island host reflected candidly on her relationship with the absent parent, adding that at such a young age, this has helped her keep others out of her adult life.

Hussein Jama, 53, has been in and out of prison all his life and last saw his daughter when she contacted him as part of a 2017 documentary about absent fathers called When Dads Kill: Murderer in the Family.

In January, Hussain claimed he hadn’t spoken to Maya since that program and begged her to get in touch.

Maya explained that she chose to cut ties with her father from such a young age because she was “getting old enough to make up her own mind.”

She then added, “Can I ask you a question?” One of my really good friends who goes into therapy said she thinks the reason why I can break relationships with certain people like this is because I broke one with my dad at such a young age.

“And having that experience is like, if I can cut off my own blood, it’s easier to cut people off now as an adult.” You think?’

A MailOnline investigation revealed Hussein’s long criminal record, with his first two-year term at just 17, and he was sent to the HMP Portland Young Offender Institution.

While there, he said he was abused by inmates, and it sent him into a tailspin that saw him in and out of prison for the next 30 years of his life — and the vital years Maya and her brother Omar grew up .

Just after being released from Portland, he met Maya’s mother Sadie, then 19, at a local pub in Montpelier, Bristol.

But violence was never far away and just weeks after they met, Hussein was in court with another man for using a dog as a weapon against three police officers.

Within weeks of being in Bristol, Hussein was in trouble again – for giving a man a drink in a city center pub, leaving him with a 3cm cut and he was sentenced to 18 months.

Case of the ex: Maya is believed to have remained single since she split from NBA player fiance Ben Simmons last summer after a year-long romance

Parents: Elsewhere in the chat, Maya revealed the reason why she cut ties with her estranged father when she was just 12 (her father Hussein is pictured with her mother Sadie)

It was this attack that Maya mentioned during the TV documentary, which had left her visibly shaken and almost in tears as she said, “That’s just so mad at me, because you can easily kill someone like that.”

Maya faced a tragedy in her past where her boyfriend was killed by a ricocheting bullet meant for someone else during a fight in Bristol.

She was only 16 when her 21-year-old partner Rico Gordon was murdered during the summer she was due to move to London to continue her now thriving TV career.

Shakah Anderson and Rickel Adams received life sentences after being found guilty of the 2012 murder of Rico, in which a third gunman has never been identified.

Explaining how she handled the tragedy, Maya revealed, “I don’t like people feeling sorry for me.

“It’s going to be bad and there’s nothing you can do to keep it from being bad. But soon it will get less bad.’

Check out the full article in the August issue of British Vogue, available as a digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday, July 18.