The Love Island runners up broke off their engagement in 2024 amid cheating rumours and though they are back together, Molly-Mae has said they are ‘living separate lives’
Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury used to be one of Love Island’s biggest success stories. Having met on the show, they fell in love, had a daughter and got engaged. So when they split in 2024, their fans were shocked and wanted to know why. One question on everyone’s mind was: Did Tommy cheat?
Though rumours died down when the pair got back together earlier this year, they have sparked back up following a sad admission from Molly-Mae ahead of the release of the second series of her documentary, Molly-Mae: Behind It All. In an interview to promote the show, which airs this Saturday (18 October), Molly said that though she and Tommy are together, “we’re also living quite separate lives” and are “definitely not a perfect couple”.
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In August 2024, Molly-Mae dropped their break-up bombshell on Instagram. She wrote: “Never in a million years did I think I’d ever have to write this. After five years of being together I never imagined our story would end, especially not this way. I am extremely upset to announce that mine and Tommy’s relationship has come to an end.”
Fans wondered what “especially this way” meant, and some started to suggest Molly-Mae called off the engagement because Tommy cheated. Speaking with the Mirror at the time, communication expert Judi James said the wording made the Love Island star “sound shocked and angry” suggesting “something truly hard and definitive has occurred”.
Shortly after their split was announced, a source told The Sun that “Molly-Mae is now aware Tommy was unfaithful to her. She believes it has happened a number of times. It seems he would play away when he knew people wouldn’t recognise him.” In particular, there was a rumour that he cheated on his fiancee with a Danish woman at a club in North Macedonia.
However, both the woman, Milla Corfixen, and Tommy have strongly denied this. Tommy has denied any infidelity, and a spokesperson for the boxer told Mirror at the time: “Tommy is horrified by the false allegations of cheating being circulated by the media and he’s consulting his lawyers.”
But, that same month, a TikToker called Kay Keogh claimed she received flirty messages from Tommy after meeting him in Manchester. She shared a screenshot of a message allegedly from Tommy’s account and told her followers that she gave him her Instagram after meeting him on a night out, and he then sent her flirty DMs. However, Kay later revealed she had been catfished and the person was not Tommy.
Since then, Tommy has addressed the cheating allegations himself. He told the Mail online that he has never cheated and would break up with his partner before every reaching that point.
“I think if you were going to cheat on someone you should just sit down and say, ‘I don’t love you any more,’ clearly because you want to go and pursue other people.
“When you get to that stage, you should just call it a day. If you want to go out there and have affairs with women then you definitely shouldn’t be with your partner. Definitely not. And have I ever reached that point? No.”
Molly-Mae addressed the rumours too and seemed to suggest these were not the reason for their break-up. In a conversation on her documentary, she said: “The rumours that were coming out at the time. I mean, it was just a lot.
“People genuinely believe everything they read, because I was getting messages from people quite close to me saying, ‘I’m really sorry to hear that he’s gotten somebody pregnant.’ ‘I’m really sorry to hear that he’s been with this person.’ And I was just like, ‘Where is this coming from?’ It was a build up.”
She also said that since they reconciled, she has “become more aware of a lot of things that have been going on that I was so naïve to for so long, and I still don’t think I know the full picture.” But this was about her partner’s mental health, rather than infidelity. She explained: “Obviously, he knows it’s the drink. He’s not drank now for what, four months?
“I don’t think the drink’s gone away forever. Do I think that drink could still be a problem for us, potentially? Yeah, but I think the break-up showed Tommy that I’m serious.”
