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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury: why are we so weirdly sad about their breakup?

It’s been a long time since anyone has cared about a Love Island breakup. But when Molly-Mae Hague posted a black screen with paragraphs of white text yesterday, index fingers paused. Eyes focused. Jaws dropped.

Not only was Molly-Mae’s Instagram story enough to warrant a momentary lapse in scrolling — something you couldn’t say of any other Love Island breakup of the past five years — it was enough to prompt people to think, to discuss, to... mourn?

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