Home Entertainment The REAL reason I believe Molly-Mae Hague’s split from Tommy Fury is nothing more than a shameless publicity stunt – even showbiz insiders are saying ‘it doesn’t make sense’ reveals KATIE HIND

The REAL reason I believe Molly-Mae Hague’s split from Tommy Fury is nothing more than a shameless publicity stunt – even showbiz insiders are saying ‘it doesn’t make sense’ reveals KATIE HIND

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Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague met on the reality show Love Island in 2019, but split earlier this year. Here, the former couple are pictured at the Pride of Britain Awards after their time on the show.

When most celebrities split from their partners, they do everything they can to keep it a secret. Even if their news is discovered, most will ignore requests for confirmation in the hope that it will never become public. Others simply deny it while some insist, through lawyers, that it is a private matter.

So when a Sky News alert rang on my phone last August revealing that reality TV couple Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, parents to two-year-old daughter Bambi, had split, my first thought was: ‘Why on land would they announce it like that?’

“Never in a million years did I think I would have to write this,” Molly-Mae declared in a post on Instagram, which left her eight million followers stunned.

‘After five years of being together, I never imagined our story would end, especially this way. I will always be grateful for the most important thing to me now and always, my beautiful daughter…she will always be my priority.’

In his statement several hours later, Tommy, younger brother of boxing great Tyson Fury, said he was “heartbroken” and asked fans for privacy. He also thanked Molly-Mae for “making me a father” and added that “Bambi is our priority.”

Even though the couple, both 25, are products of the ITV reality dating show Love Island, and met on the 2019 series, their news became a national talking point. That wouldn’t have happened if, after five years as one of Britain’s most lucrative celebrity couples, they hadn’t announced their decision to go their separate ways.

To add to the conversation, Molly-Mae’s MaeBe clothing range was due to go on sale a fortnight later, while Tommy Lightning’s autobiography Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury was due to be published within two months.

So why, when they rekindled their relationship late last year, didn’t they release a new statement confirming that they were back together?

Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae Hague met on the reality show Love Island in 2019, but split earlier this year. Here, the former couple are pictured at the Pride of Britain Awards after their time on the show.

Instead, news of their renewed romance only emerged when an associate of them at a New Year’s party took photographs of the couple kissing at the stroke of midnight.

A source familiar with the couple said: “If they announced their split, which was presumably sad news for them, with so much fanfare, why wouldn’t they want to share the happy news with their fans?

‘You’d probably think they’d want to tell the world that they’re back together and their brand is back in tact. It doesn’t add up.’ In fact, it is not like that.

Four days later, Tommy, aware of Molly’s love of horror movies, took her on a secret trip to the cinema to see Nosferatu and then spent the night at her house.

He was then seen leaving the £4million Cheshire mansion where they had lived together, wearing the same clothes as the day before.

But so far, even though Molly-Mae released three episodes of her new Amazon Prime documentary, Molly-Mae: Behind It All, along with a press conference to promote it (plus Tommy gave a candid interview to the Men’s Health magazine), they have not yet confirmed that they are an article again.

Molly-Mae attends the screening of her Amazon Prime series titled Behind It All, which premiered on Friday.

Molly-Mae attends the screening of her Amazon Prime series titled Behind It All, which premiered on Friday.

Perhaps then, her fans can be forgiven for taking Molly-Mae’s firm denials that their split was an attempt to publicize her businesses with a pinch of salt.

On a carefully orchestrated tour last Wednesday at The Londoner, a five-star hotel in Leicester Square, where she was flanked by her highly protective agent Fran Britton, Molly-Mae insisted: “In fact, I say in the documentary that I want it.” It was a publicity stunt because it would have been so much easier… that, for me, above all, has been the most frustrating part.

‘Going through all of this with the confusion of a breakup has been incredibly hard. “To have those comments (and I see them all) and people saying, ‘This was obviously just done for their brand launch or as a publicity stunt,’ it’s very painful to read because it’s real life.”

Molly-Mae continued: ‘Tommy and I have a baby together and it’s very, very real. It’s a really difficult thing we’ve both been through over the last six months.

‘I think this documentary will clarify any doubts about it. “I think people will be quite surprised at how honest we’ve been.”

Only they haven’t. Either that or Molly-Mae must underestimate the intelligence of her fans. In October, when the Daily Mail interviewed boxer Tommy while promoting his autobiography, he refused to address the split or explain the reasons behind it.

In the three-part series, Molly-Mae says:

In the three-part series, Molly-Mae says: “Going through all of this with the turmoil of a breakup has been incredibly difficult.”

Three months later, on the same day as Molly-Mae’s press conference, he told Men’s Health that they broke up because of his alleged drinking problem.

“The reason Molly and I broke up was because I became addicted to alcohol and could no longer be the couple I wanted to be,” he said.

‘It kills me to say it, (but) it’s true, I couldn’t. I loved a pint of beer, I loved drinking and it is what it is. People go through different things in life and we all have our crosses to bear. I have mine.

Molly-Mae echoes this in her documentary, saying that she was “angry… very hurt… and traumatized” because he drank at her sister Zoe’s wedding a couple of weeks before their separation, when she told him. He had expressly requested that he not do so.

“He’s never had a problem with alcohol, but alcohol caused us problems,” he says. “I got to a point where I didn’t feel like doing anything because alcohol affected me so much.”

Alcohol problems can affect any relationship, but it’s curious that if this was the underlying issue surrounding the split, the rumors about Tommy’s fidelity weren’t immediately quashed.

In fact, in the documentary Molly-Mae addresses rumors that Tommy cheated on a “boys’ vacation” in Ohrid, North Macedonia, although I found the rumors weak, especially since no one came forward claiming to have had a adventure with him.

The closest thing to a Christmas scandal was Tommy’s encounter with Milla Corfixen, a Danish blonde who was chatting with him in a nightclub.

The 20-year-old admitted seeing Tommy on three separate occasions during the holiday but insisted nothing else happened between them.

Milla said: ‘I’m the girl but nothing happened. We had fun and chatted. We didn’t do anything.

“I would never have done anything with a married man, since he is basically married and has a small child.”

Did Molly-Mae know this all along? Possibly that’s why she confesses in the documentary: ‘I cling to the hope that as soulmates we will always be together again. All I want is to be with him.

The thing is, it already is, and possibly has been for longer than any of us imagine.

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