At around 4pm yesterday afternoon, my phone lit up with a message from my friend Hannah. “Omg Molly-Mae and Tommy have broken up,” she said. “No they haven’t,” I texted back. “Look at her Instagram story,” said Hannah.

Lo and behold, the Love Island star turned multi-millionaire influencer had posted a sombre breakup announcement on her account. “Never in a million years did I think I’d ever have to write this [...] I am extremely upset to announce that mine and Tommy’s relationship has come to an end.”

Naturally, the internet was whipped up into a frenzy by the news that the most successful couple to come out of Love Island had split. Some called for a bank holiday to process the troubling development; some criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “deafening silence” and demanded that he make a statement. Others described the breakup as the Gen Z equivalent of Charles and Diana and renounced their faith in love entirely.

Theories as to why the couple have called off their engagement have also begun circulating, with armchair detectives poring over Hague’s Instagram story for clues. Many have concluded that the tone of the statement suggests it’s likely the relationship came to a particularly bitter end, a theory supported by the number of Manchester locals now taking to X to claim that Fury has been regularly cheating on Hague for years. Others have claimed that another woman has become pregnant, or that Fury allegedly did a poo on Katie Price.

Hague has made a career out of posting confessional, candid vlogs, and in light of this it’s likely she’ll open up in a two-hour-long YouTube video about the reasons behind the relationship breakdown one day. In the meantime, here’s a roundup of some of the wildest reactions to the Hague and Fury breakup.

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Molly Mae and Tommy Fury breakup reaction