Tommy Fury has claimed that he lost major brand deals when he was accused of cheating on Molly-Mae Hague. The boxer, 26, struck up a relationship with Molly Mae, also 26, on the set of Love Island in 2019 and they became parents to daughter Bambi, now two, in the years that followed.
After finding success on the ITV dating show, Molly Maeand Tommy signed numerous brand deals, with Tommy earning a fortune from the likes of M&S, Aldi and The Gym Group whilst Molly famously became creative director at Pretty Little Thing.
They were even set to tie the knot but thing started to go awry in 2024 when Molly Mae announced that they had called it quits. Rumours quickly swirled that Tommy had been unfaithful towards Molly Mae, even though he slammed these as 'complete and utter bulls***' in interviews.
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But in the third episode of his new BBC docuseries, titled Tommy: The Good, The Bad. The Fury, Tommy reveals that that the tumultuous time lost him work. He admits: "The phone did go quiet..."
His manager added: "I even had a brand yesterday, that I was speaking to over the weekend that we’ve worked with before. They said, ‘We really want to work with Tommy but we’re a bit concerned about how this plays out.’"
The sports star damaged his hand early last year, and he was left unable to train. He turned to drink after hitting "rock bottom" and this was when things started to come crashing down for the couple amid their very public personal lives.
Molly Mae moved out of their family home as Tommy grappled with his drinking struggles. “I had enough drink to last me a lifetime in 2024,” he confessed.
"Suddenly, one day, you find that all you can do is sit down and then a few of them (drinks), it takes the pain away. You forget where you are, you forget what's going on. And sometimes you want that feeling all the time, and that's where obviously it starts."
Tommy admitted: “Now, when I look at that person from back then, I don't even recognise that guy. It's just not me. Back then, I didn't really care about anything. It was like the world going by, wasn't bothered, and that's just not me.”
The boxer hasn't cut drink out of his life, but said he is now barely touching alcohol. “Going forward, if it's a wedding or something like that, I might have a couple of drinks. Four or five times a week is something nobody should be doing," he said.
Tommy recalled: “I woke up one morning and everything was gone, Molly and the baby had gone. That was the moment I thought, ‘wow, what's going on?’ And that was the moment where I just started to try and change things around.”
But things came full circle for the couple, and Molly-Mae recently decided to take Tommy back, and the pair have been rekindling their romance and life with Bambi under the same roof. However, it was her upping and leaving that really got Tommy into shape.
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