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Molly-Mae Hague has addressed claims that her split with Tommy Fury is a publicity stunt.
The 25-year-old influencer and entrepreneur is known for her business-savvy marketing skills, and her successful social media strategies.
However, after Hague announced her split from her former fiancé in August 2024, some speculated that the break-up had been a PR strategy ahead of the release of her new clothing brand, Maebe, the following month.
“I just think it’s bizarre that anyone would think it’s a publicity stunt,” she said in her new Amazon Prime Video documentary, Molly-Mae: Behind it All.
“I wish it was a publicity stunt, because that would be a lot easier, that would mean my relationship’s actually fine, but it’s not.”
The couple, who first met on Love Island in 2018, were together for five years and share one daughter, Bambi, together.
“I just never thought that when I launched my own clothing brand, that we wouldn’t be together,” Hague continued.
“I wanted to enjoy it with him – Tommy himself watched me for the last three years do everything for Maebe, and he was really, really proud, and a huge supporter of it because he knew how important it was to me.”
Explaining how the timing of the break came at an inconvenient rather than opportunistic time for the launch of her brand, Hague said: “One million per cent I’d rather have launched Maebe while in a relationship with Tommy, because it would have been all about Maebe.”
She continued: “Whereas at the minute, everything I post around my engagement ring – because we’ve been working on Maebe for years now – people are like ‘Oh they’re back together!’ The most liked comments on all the posts is about the engagement, which is not what I wanted. I wanted the most-liked comments to be about the clothes, and about the brand.”
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Although unconfirmed reports alleged that the boxer had been unfaithful, he recently admitted that alcohol had caused the split.
“All I’ve been seeing for the past six months is ‘Cheater!’, ‘He slept with me!’, ‘He slept with this girl, he slept with that girl!’ Complete and utter b******s,” the 25-year-old told Mens Health.
“We broke up because I had a problem with alcohol and I couldn’t be the partner that I wanted to be anymore. It kills me to say it, but I couldn’t. I loved a pint of beer, loved to drink.”
