Signs Molly-Mae and Tommy’s romance was on the rocks – from cheating row & ‘sex drought’ to ‘solo parenting’ jibe

MOLLY-MAE Hague and Tommy Fury's split took fans by surprise but for those paying close attention, the writing was already on the wall.

The couple, who met in 2019 on Love Island, had been showing cracks for a while as their fairy-tale romance turned sour.

Molly finally threw Tommy out of their £4million mansion after confronting him about his cheating, which she believes happened "a number of times".

Even before it was confirmed that the boxer had been playing away, it seemed things were already looking shaky for the pair.

Relationship guru Jo Hemmings breaks down all the signs hiding in plain sight that the couple weren't going to last.

Commenting on their romance in the public eye, she said: "Everyone has to bear in mind that they're only 25, so they're a very young couple.

"But people are more invested in them than any other reality TV couple because they've lived out their relationship on social media.

"It means that everyone notices the slightest detail and analyses it.

"Molly-Mae has been leading this lifestyle, particularly, and she's spent time pretending everything is marvellous or putting her concerns out there. And people will pick up on that."

Solo Parenting

Since giving birth to daughter Bambi, Molly-Mae, 25, appears to have been left on her own to look after the baby.

Tommy, 25, has been away on various work projects since the daughter arrived in January 2023.

In a clip shared by the reality star, she opened up about struggling to make things work as a solo parent.

She told the camera: "I, to be honest with you, have been not feeling… like, I mean this week has just been a lot of emotions."

Tommy had been away a lot working on the audio version of his book.

"He's done it now and I'm so proud of him because I know that was a really big deal to him, but I have been solo parenting pretty much the entire week," she continued.

"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. He's such an incredible dad but I have been, this week just really… mum life has been mum lifeing."

Choosing to share her struggles looking after Bambi alone is likely to have had the opposite effect to what Molly-Mae wanted, Jo says.

"It may have come across as her saying she was the chief parent and as such Tommy was allowed to go away," she said.

"And that will have accelerated his behaviour because he knows she's at home with the little one.

"But what she was probably trying to do was to remind him they're in it together. That they have responsibilities as a couple to their child.

"Sadly, it's not had that effect."

Stark warning

Before the couple even met in 2019, Tommy's ex-girlfriend issued a warning to a potential love interest on the ITV2 show about his “controlling” behaviour.

Millie Roberts, then 22, had been in an on-off relationship with the boxer for two years and claimed he banned her from sitting next to men on planes as well as sending her menacing messages.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Millie said: “He’s really controlling. Whenever I would go out and if I wasn’t home by midnight he would text me ‘We’re done,’ ‘It’s over, on my mum’s life’ ‘You dirty cheat, you f***ing slipped up’ ‘I want nothing to do with you’ – he’s aggressive in how he talks to people. 

“If another guy looked at me on a night out it would be a big kicking and screaming situation and if I stayed late at work he would accuse me of sleeping with someone. 

“I went to Marbella on a trip with my friend who’s a social media influencer, that was the worst time of my life. He was so nasty and horrible to me the whole time I was on holiday – because I was in a bikini. I hated it. He was so nasty.

“He said to me ‘You’re just a f***ing scruff from Salford, ‘don’t think you’re one of them’ ‘when you come back home you’ll come down to earth’ ‘you’re a nobody, Millie’ – all because I was on this trip and getting attention.

“I never ever cheated on him or gave him a reason to be that way – that was the hardest thing.”

Millie decided to speak out to give Molly-Mae a warning about the man she had coupled up with on Love Island.

“I would say to Molly be careful and don’t ignore the warning signs. He’s very good at talking, he’s very smooth and calming, and he would talk his way out of any situation.

“Don’t ignore red flags when they come up. He will talk his way out of it. He would lie about where he was every weekend, he would say he was with his granddad but he wouldn’t be, he’d be out and staying in hotel rooms.”

When asked if she believes Tommy will remain committed to Molly-Mae once the show is over, Millie replied: “History says he won’t be loyal."

Jo said: "It could have been someone talking from a place of hurt and distress or it could have all been true.

"Either way, it's worth taking some note of what his former partner said. Perhaps Molly felt like she had tamed him from that behaviour.

"But we don't know if they had any incidents or not."

Sick lie

Another warning sign, before meeting Molly, Tommy told a girl he wanted to bed that his mum had died from cancer - despite her being alive and well.

Olivia Wells was texting the boxer when he made the bizarre claims as part of an attempt to chat her up over WhatsApp.

One text sent on April 4 said: “My mum is on her deathbed, I’m not going to be meeting anyone anytime soon.” 

Another on April 24 read: "Her funeral in America is in two days, then she is being flown to England and that funeral will be in a few weeks.” 

They were interspersed with Whatsapp voice notes where he detailed how he was desperate to bed her. 

Olivia, then 19, from Loughborough, Leics, told The Sun on Sunday: “He’s a disgusting human being. It’s vile behaviour. To lie about your mum dying is the lowest of the low . . . I’ve blocked him and don’t want anything to do with him.”

While it was before his stint on Love Island, it showed his willingness to lie to get what he wanted.

Jo said: "I would be deeply concerned about being with a man if I thought a shred of this was true because that is pathological lying as a means to an end. He was using that lie as leverage.

"I find that really shocking, that she would have overlooked that or that he could have even behaved like that.

"There are a lot of red flags in his alleged behaviour. People don't tend to change their behaviour. They might stop for a bit but they can't sustain it."

Sex drought

While having a baby can impact your sex life, most couples will do all they can to get one back on track.

But Molly-Mae revealed that the pair hadn't enjoyed any intimate relations for almost a year.

Taking to her YouTube channel and speaking candidly about the couple's relationship, she said: “Tommy and I, Since having Bambi, so coming up to a year now.

“Tommy and I haven’t had any proper time together, we have date nights and go to the cinema but I don't really feel like that counts as proper time as a couple - like adult intimate nice quality time together.

“And I feel like we haven’t done that coming up to a year now.”

Intimacy is a key part of a relationship and Jo warns that when it goes, couples struggle to come back.

"This was the biggest sign to me that things weren't OK," she said.

"It's not uncommon for couples to not have sex after a baby but they do other stuff to bring back the intimacy.

"But I got the sense from Molly-Mae that they weren't even doing that. There seems to be a yearning from her side for it but perhaps he can't see her as anything more than a mother.

"Considering this was a couple who had huge sexual tension when they got together, not having any suggests that it's gone wrong.

"For such a young couple it's a huge red flag."

Partying rows

Despite becoming a dad, Tommy seemed unwilling to settle down and was still out partying while Molly-Mae was at home looking after Bambi.

His trip to Dubai where he was seen raving with Chris Brown and talking to other girls, left the influencer “mortified”.

“This weekend has ended up being a real embarrassment to her,” a source told The Sun, adding that it’s “no secret she doesn’t like it when Tommy parties too hard”. 

Molly-Mae — who stepped down as creative director at PrettyLittleThing in June — was reportedly “mortified” when she “kept getting tagged in videos” of Fury’s partying while she was with their daughter.

The boxer was already in hot water for his boozing antics before the trip in November.

He opted to have a wild night out in Abu Dhabi in 2023, with footage showing him getting topless and eyeing up girls.

Once again, Molly-Mae had been left behind in Manchester to look after their daughter.

At the time, a source told The Sun: “She has told Tommy it really has to stop now he’s a dad and has told him to ditch some of his pals, who she thinks are a bad influence.”

Jo said: "This shows that he is pulling away from her. It also shows his immaturity and that he clearly wasn't as ready as he thought to settle down and have a family.

"I'm not surprised it upset her as being left home alone with a baby is a lot of work."