Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury had what many would call the perfect relationship. The pair hit it off in 2019 on Love Island UK.
Their spark flourished throughout the series and despite not winning their season, the pair continued their romance on the outside.
Hague went on to become an entrepreneur and Instagram influencer, while Fury is a professional boxer, with the couple openly supporting one another in their endeavours. They appeared successful, beautiful and full of love for one another.
Then, the couple welcomed their first child together, a daughter, Bambi, in January 2023. When their little one was just six months old, Fury proposed. They had been looking at venues, planning the wedding, and everything seemed like it was out of a fairytale. But then came a bombshell announcement in August 2024: they were splitting up.
And in the weeks since the breakup, things have started to get complicated. Here, we break down the full timeline.
September 7: Rumours of a reconciliation and pivot to an announcement.
In recent days, reports have come out suggesting that Molly-Mae Hague is mending her relationship with Tommy Fury.
The Daily Mail claims that Fury had been frequently visiting Hague's Cheshire mansion, a home which they bought together.
It's not all that surprising that the boxer would visit, as the exes share 18-month-old daughter Bambi, but the tabloid site is claiming that friends of the couple have said they're 'getting their romance back on track' and 'getting on really well'.
But just as these reports picked up steam, Molly-Mae announced she was launching a long-awaited fashion brand: Maebe.
The style muse has been dropping hints about this secret project on her YouTube for months.
Hague is no stranger to fashion as she was previously the creative director at Pretty Little Thing before quitting in 2023.
Molly-Mae's contemporary womenswear line will debut on September 29, 2024.
August 30: Molly-Mae Hague breaks silence on social media.
Two weeks after announcing the news of the split, Molly-Mae returned to Instagram to thank her followers for their support.
"Thank you for being the best online friends I could've ever wished for," she posted alongside an image. In the picture, Molly stares pensively into the distance as she appears to be enjoying some much-needed respite at a lakeside resort.
Molly's post was flooded by comments from her famous friends and Love Island alum. Season five co-star and longtime friend, Maura Higgins, wrote on the post "LOVE & ADORE YOU."
More recently, Molly posted on her YouTube channel, revealing why she will ‘never' talk about what happened between her and Tommy.
"I feel like a lot of you will have clicked on this video because you want me to sit down and talk about everything that's gone on the past couple of weeks and 'spill the tea' and give you a story and explain what's been happening," she shared with her followers.
"But to be honest with you, that was never something that was going to happen and it's not something that I ever plan on doing or talking about. The last few weeks have been very, very real," she said of her and Tommy's split.
"It's real life and something that as privately as we can... but I haven't been able to get away from it the past couple of weeks. The last thing I want to do is come on here and fuel that more and talk about it because it's just not my type of mechanism."
"It's just that publicly it's not something that I want to go into or discuss for myself and also out of respect for Tommy because he's Bambi's dad and I will always value him and respect him and obviously always have a lot of love for him."
"We were together for five years and it's very, very sad."
August 29: Tommy Fury breaks his silence on social media.
Less than 24 hours after Molly's post, Tommy broke his silence on social media, posting on Instagram for the first time since announcing the split.
The photo of Tommy in the gym training had the caption: "These last few weeks have been heartbreaking. The false allegations about me have been horrendous, thank you to everybody who has stood by me through this."
The "false allegations" he referred to in his post are centred on the cheating rumours surrounding him.
The comments underneath the post were less than favourable.
August 26: The "mystery woman" speaks out.
The timing of Molly and Tommy's posts come just days after the Danish woman at the centre of the scandal has come forward.
On August 25, the "blonde mystery woman" allegedly pictured with Tommy in Macedonia shared a statement to her Instagram page.
Milla Corfixen, 20, took to her Instagram Stories to ask fans of the couple to stop creating fake accounts with her name and to stop leaving her hate comments. She claimed she had "just kissed" the reality TV star in the club, after first denying they had kissed in an interview with The Sun.
"I've had to delete all my posts due to the hate and nasty comments," she wrote, per The Mirror. "As stated in the news story I have gave. I didn't do anything with Tommy Fury. I didn't even know who he was we only shared a kiss nothing else happened. And if I'd of known about Molly-Mae, I would never have kissed him back."
At this stage, Tommy had not responded to these new claims. But following the initial rumours, he did share a statement via a spokesperson to vehemently deny the cheating rumours.
"Tommy is horrified by the false allegations of cheating being circulated by the media and he is consulting his lawyers," they said.
August 17: The allegations Tommy Fury cheated on Molly-Mae Hague.
Multiple sources told The Sun that Tommy was seen kissing a blonde woman in front of hundreds of people in a nightclub in North Macedonia, just days before his fiancée Molly-Mae Hague announced their split.
"He was downing Grey Goose vodka and didn't seem to care who saw him with the girl. He kissed her," a nightclub goer claimed. "This will be heartbreaking for Molly-Mae."
The mystery woman was believed to have met the boxer through mutual friends. To make matters worse, Tommy was reportedly seen speaking to the same girl at beach club Cuba Libre the following evening.
Staff at the resort have claimed that the "whole town" had been talking about Tommy's behaviour in the nightclub.
"Everyone is talking about it. She is a young blonde girl... but I wouldn't be surprised if he kissed multiple women," one staffer claimed.
"That was the vibe of the group and they were going out every night and drinking in the daytime. It was a wild lads' holiday. He was ordering tequila in the afternoon."
The timing of this alleged incident is especially suspicious given that Tommy arrived back in Manchester on a delayed flight at 2:45pm and by 3:52pm, Molly-Mae had announced the split to her Instagram followers.
A source told The Sun that Molly-Mae was sent an upsetting video of Tommy's antics on the trip, which could have led to the sudden split.
August 15: Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury break up.
"Never in a million years did I think I’d ever have to write this. After five years of being together I never thought our story would end, especially not this way," Hague shared on social media on August 15.
"I am extremely upset to announce that mine and Tommy’s relationship has come to an end."
She emphasised that her priority at the moment was her daughter Bambi, who she said is the "most important thing to me, now and always."
In a nearly identical social media post, Fury shared that he was 'heartbroken' to announce the news.
"The past five years have led to us having our beautiful baby girl. Bambi & I will be forever thankful to Molly for making me a dad. Bambi is our priority."
Despite not offering any reason for their split, fans couldn't help but zero in on a recent video, posted only a week ago to Molly-Mae's vlog channel.
In it, she mentioned feeling like a "single mum" while Tommy had been busy working on his audiobook.
"Actually, I've been solo parenting for like, two weeks now, basically because Tommy's just been so busy.
"When he's home from doing work and stuff, he's so incredible and so helpful. I can't say any different, like, he's such an incredible dad, but I have been this week, like, just really… mum life has been mum lifeing," she said.
"I feel like we're going through a little bit of a challenging phase. Not only with Bambi, but also just with me and trying to juggle a lot."
Alongside struggling to settle in as new parents, drinking was one of the problems that plagued their relationship. Molly-Mae has always been honest about not loving what alcohol does to people. In fact, in the hot tub on their fateful meet-cute on Love Island, one of the first questions she asked him was whether or not he was a drinker.
She opened up about her relationship with alcohol in her 2022 memoir, Becoming Molly-Mae: Finding Happiness in an Online/Offline World, and how it sometimes caused arguments between the two of them.
"The only major arguments Tommy and I have had have been to do with him drinking," she wrote.
"Which he only does a few times a year. He won’t even do anything wrong; I’ll just lose it at him because I hate it. I do have this anxiety around alcohol and the things I’ve seen it do to the people around me – I personally don’t think that alcohol adds anything good to a situation."
While the couple have asked for privacy as they process the break, the infidelity rumours have added fuel to the fire.
In a YouTube video from last year, Molly-Mae admitted that she began to fear he might be cheating on her when he started hiding his phone.
"My mind did somersaults, I thought, 'Why is he shady about his phone who is he talking to?'" she said. "My mind went to the worst option. I was staring out the window like I was in a sad movie."
Neither Molly-Mae nor Tommy Fury mentioned any cheating in their break-up announcements.
Ultimately, devastated fans will have to wait for Molly-Mae and Tommy to share their side of the story, if they ever choose to do so.
Feature Image: Instagram/@tommyfury.
This article was originally published on August 15, 2024 and has since been updated with new information.
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