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[phone buzzing]

Hello.

[Tommy] Where's our baba?

She's downstairs. Can I call you back in, like, ten minutes?

I'm doing my make-up for this evening,

-because people are coming around for-- -Well…

I hope everything goes well and I hope you enjoy yourself,

and just keep me updated.

All right, thank you.

[call ends]

I've been waiting for so long, for Molly-Mae to release maebe.

Molly-Mae effect is just insane.

[influencer 3] Molly-Mae and the launch of her new clothing brand--

[influencer 4] Maebe collection actually goes on sale.

[Molly-Mae] I've wanted to do maebe for so long.

So, yeah, I feel quite anxious and stressed that it goes on sale today.

[reporter] Basically she's making her mark on the world of fashion.

There's a lot of pressure which is stressful but also good,

because it pushes me to do well with it.

I've been waiting for this moment for, like, three years.

[inhales sharply]

And that will have to do, I think.

Fingers crossed for a sell-out.

-[Zoe, singsongy] It's time. -My palms are a bit sweaty now.

[Molly-Mae] Yeah, mine as well.

I feel I need to be sat on the floor.

Right.

[Francesca] The Molly-Mae effect, what people talk about, it's a real thing.

Her followers truly believe in anything that she does.

I'm so here for this.

Here is everything that I love about it so far.

I want it all, honestly.

Everything this girl touches turns to gold.

No one's seen her do something this big in the fashion space.

I'm not connected to the internet.

[Molly-Mae] Guys, four minutes.

Four minutes.

[friend] Oh, my God. I'm scared.

All right.

-[friend 2 gasps] It's seven o'clock! -[friend 1] Oh, my God.

-It's seven o'clock. -I've got it.

[cheering, laughing]

[friend 1] Oh, my God!

Wait, 40… 43,000 people are on the site right now.

Screaming, crying, throwing up.

[friend 3] Your cart is sold out.

-[friend 1 gasps] -But, wait, so's mine.

-Oh, my God! -Come back.

I didn't get the blazer.

Neither did I, sold out.

I told you the blazer would go in less than 5 minutes. The blazer's gone.

Yay!

-[gasps] The jeans have gone, Moll. -[Molly-Mae] Have they?

There's 60,000 people live right now.

Oh, and all the jeans have gone in every size.

Every size, yeah.

Moll, look, have you seen this?

-There's 70,000 people online. -What?

-How many people are online. -Wow, 70,000? Oh, my God, that's insane.

[Molly-Mae] So, the Awayday Pleated Top has sold out.

All the jeans have sold out. The Blazer's sold out.

[Zoe] Say what's not sold out. That might be easier.

-The gar… cardigan's sold out. -That's good.

[nervous groans]

-We're sold out. -Yay!

Twenty-four minutes past.

-Wow. -Wow.

Twenty-four minutes, it's all gone.

No, I'm really happy.

-Mother. -Darling?

We've sold out.

[group chattering]

And that's that.

So good, my darling.

[kisses]

-[mum] I'm very happy. -Just can't believe it.

The next exciting thing is when they get their stuff.

-Yeah. A whole other level. -That's the bit I'm nervous for.

That's the bit I'm nervous for

'cause that's when everyone's gonna be, like, "Oh! X, Y and Z."

I had this really bad mindset where I think

when things are going really well and things are, like, really good,

I always get really apprehensive that something bad's round the corner.

Because I care so much about it.

I think, for me, it's more about when people get the clothes,

that they just love them.

And they love the quality and there's not loads of malfunctions and…

Like, that would be my worst nightmare.

-Cheers, everyone. -Cheers to maebe selling out.

Cheers!

Something that describes this as maybe the more, like, formal, but cool, like…

refined outfit, tracksuit.

And then the other ones will be more, like, cool girl, oversized.

Would there be an embroidered M here?

-I do think that there needs to be. -Okay.

[Molly-Mae] Elisha's basically just helped me do everything that I'm not able to do.

So, all the technical stuff.

Like, the numbers, the CAD drawings, they helped me with designs.

So I needed someone to basically put my creative, like, my vision…

and help me make it real life.

This is the maebe office.

We came together and found this space

and it's definitely, like, a really homely, girly space.

But I do think that in the near future we'll probably have to move.

At the start, I remember thinking, how are we gonna fill this space?

Because we didn't really have, like, that many people

and I thought this is too much room.

But we've had to get more desks because just more people.

I do like it.

I do have a really incredible feeling about this next chapter of my life.

And I really do have hopes that maybe we'll become an empire, really.

I really feel like it can.

So,

watch this space. [chuckles]

[phone buzzes, chimes]

Moll, I really don't want you to look at your phone this morning.

Avoid social media unless I tell you to look at anything.

I've been dealing with the press all morning. It's crazy, my end.

If I need you and I ring you, please answer.

I managed to get the Molly-Mae blazer

and I hate to say it, but maybe it was a waste of money.

The bobbling. The blazer bobbling.

It has got so much bobbling already.

It's, like, it's bobbled.

The fabric has just bobbled absolutely everywhere.

It is just a grey blazer.

It's not giving.

I've seen people wear it for, like, two days and the quality's shocking.

That is so bad.

So, yeah. If anyone's thinking of paying £140 for that, I wouldn't bother.

I've taken so much time, like,

spent literally years trying to make it right and get it perfect.

All I want is for people to be happy.

"Can we all agree that the only reason

why this collection is sold out was because of the name attached to it?"

Then they just, like, showing you what you could get

for half the price from a different website.

I've got to be honest and say that we have faced more negativity

than I had anticipated so far.

Not all of it has been fair,

but I have to hold my hand up and say that some of it has been fair.

[photographer chattering]

The fabric that the blazer had been made in was not the fabric that we signed off.

So, our final sample,

the sample that I test wore for, probably had it on a year,

did not bobble.

Like, look right here, the fabric.

Sixty-three per cent polyester, 19 viscose, 18% acrylic.

So basically just cheap, synthetic fibres.

[Molly-Mae] It makes me feel crap, like, it's not nice.

It's just my worst nightmare.

I want people to love it and I want this to be a huge success.

It is… It does… massively knock my confidence and put me down

when people say that they don't.

People just think that you… you don't actually exist behind the phone.

They probably even think that I don't check my DMs.

They probably just think,

"She has too many followers, she's not gonna see it."

But I do see it.

To be honest, I'm finding this, just very hard

because, at first, it was just my relationship that was breaking down,

but now I feel like it's my business too.

[parent] Gonna make a coffee, did you want one?

[Molly-Mae] No, thank you.

[interviewer] Did it surprise you when Molly said she's doing this documentary?

Are you surprised she's let us in?

Yes, I'm surprised she's let you in.

Um…

It's something that shocked me that she did allow this.

If it's what she thinks is good for her then we support her 100%.

-[Molly-Mae] How was Vegas? -Uh… [chuckles]

-Was it good? -It was brilliant, to be fair.

We basically just went all the way from Vegas to Area 51,

which is in the middle of nowhere.

-So you rented a camper van? -Yeah.

-That is Tommy's biggest dream in life. -It was mad.

[Molly-Mae] I've got a really, incredibly supportive family.

I'm lucky that if I ever really do have difficult moments,

which there have been, my family's always there for me.

How's the new world started with the new business?

Oh, it's a disaster, to be honest with you. It's not good.

This blazer situation.

It's eating me up at the minute. And it's stressing me out.

People are wearing it, like, twice, and the fluff is just, like, balling.

And we've got two coats coming out in the exact same fabric--

-Thousands of blazers, coats and skirts-- -Can't you go back--

I think we calculated it, it would be half a million pounds.

You need to put something out to address it.

Yeah.

Because if you don't it's like you're burying your head in the sand.

People will think you're just ignoring the problem.

-Yeah. -You poured your life and soul into this.

I don't know. I just… I feel a bit, like, I've let myself down a little bit.

I think with Molly, she feels, and completely understandably,

she feels she owes a huge amount to her followers.

You can see how personally she takes fans' views, fans' criticisms,

and I think she probably does take it to heart, what people say.

[influencer] Bad quality at that price point.

£140 for that, I just think it's criminal.

You have eight million sets of eyes on you.

And eight million sets of eyes are watching what you do

and taking influence from it.

She's just a normal girl like anyone else.

She just has the world's eyes on her.

[young Molly-Mae vocalizing]

Welcome to Molly's Cartwheel Show.

She's always been a-a performer.

Or someone that likes to be in front of an audience.

Welcome to Sticky Situations.

I am Molly Hague.

She was always the centre of attention.

[crowd cheering, clamouring]

Molly! Molly!

[Steve] Being at the airport on the arrival back from Love Island,

that was completely, unbelievable.

People just all over the place.

That was the first moment I thought this is just madness.

It's hard to watch people verbally destroy you.

-Mmm. -It's not a nice sensation as a dad,

and sometimes I wish you still worked at Boots, on the shelf stacking.

-Mum says that a lot. Yeah. -[Steve chuckles]

We tried to learn a lesson from the Love Island days,

of not reading what people write or anything else. But it's very difficult.

You flick onto your social media and there it is.

And I only have to read the headline to know

that I couldn't even face looking at the article.

And quite often,

I scroll straight past 'cause I can see how negative it is.

Before Molly went into Love Island she said,

"Dad, here's the login to my Instagram account."

And she said, "Whatever you do, Dad, don't read the DMs."

Of course, I made the mistake of ignoring that and read the DMs,

and some of them were just absolutely vile.

I guess that's the world she's in. That's the life she's chosen.

[Bambi] Rice.

Rice.

You want rice?

[Bambi] Rice.

-Sausage? -Rice.

-Rice. -You want some rice?

That's rice.

That's rice.

-Yeah. -You want to try?

-Rice. Rice. -[laughs]

[Molly-Mae] I told you wouldn't like it.

[Bambi cries]

Living the dream, baby. Living the dream.

[vocalizes]

-[Bambi continues crying] -[vocalizes]

There's no biscuits or anything, and if you don't eat your tea…

-[Bambi] Bic-bic. No, you're not having a bic-bic.

No.

-Dada, Dada. -I'm on to you.

Yeah, I'm on to you.

Dada. Dada.

Dada.

[Molly-Mae] With Bambi and stuff, when she's doing all these new things

and we're doing all these cute things, and he's not there.

Then when she's with him she's doing cute things with him

and doing all new things with him, and I'm not there. So, it's…

It is really sad.

My whole coping mechanism with the last few months

has been to focus on that, like, we'll all hopefully get back to a better place.

So, you know, through everything going on with maebe,

it is what I focus on.

The positive part of my life right now is that Tommy and I are working on things,

and things are going in a more positive direction.

I think, like, if things were in a really, really bad place with Tommy and I,

and I have all this drama going on with maebe,

like, I genuinely think I would just have a breakdown.

I'm gonna have to go because there's people coming in the room now,

they want me to film. I'll call you afterwards.

-[Tommy] All right, no worries. -All right. Bye, bye.

Bye. I love you, Bambam.

Say, "Love you, Dada."

Can you give Daddy a kiss? [gasps]

She's trying to climb the… She's trying to climb the bed like monkey bars.

Co-parenting, right now, is actually going quite well.

We are communicating about Bambi.

It's not like you've really lost that person.

They're still kind of there.

Come here, look. Wittle kiss for Dada.

-Wittle kiss. -[Tommy] Give Dada kiss before bed.

-Kiss before bed. -[kisses]

-Aw. She gave you one. -She gave me one.

-All right. -I love you.

-Speak to you in a bit. Bye. -All right, bye.

Tommy and I are always gonna have that common ground with Bambi,

and we're gonna always have that special connection.

So, tomorrow Mummy's gonna go away, okay?

-Yeah. -Yeah?

But Mommy… Mommy come back in just two nights, okay?

-Yeah. -I won't be long.

-Let me have a kiss. -[Bambi kisses]

Mommy's just outside, okay?

Tommy's a lovely person, like, he is. Like, he's a really good guy.

Right now, in this moment, I don't know what the future holds for Tommy and I.

I really don't, but…

I'd be lying if I said that my love just disappeared overnight.

I think at the minute, because he's trying to, like, better himself,

so he's, like, really working on him,

the good stuff outweighs the bad, so…

Yeah, he's just taking time to work on himself,

and he wants to make things right.

[interviewer] Do you think you've been honest with yourself

about how you're feeling?

Um…

I think…

I think, really, I probably haven't been honest with anyone in the situation,

because actually I've just been holding on to the hope and the idea that,

as soul mates, we will always come back together.

'Cause, even though I've been saying to everyone around me, "Yeah, we're done,"

I made the choice to end our relationship.

But I didn't want this to happen.

I don't want to not be together,

and I know we can't be right now, because he has to work on himself,

but I don't know, I just…

It's so hard because all I want is to be with him.

-[Molly-Mae] Cheers, girls. -Cheers.

-To us. -To us.

To Ibiza.

[Molly-Mae] I do love Ibiza.

Like, I do feel like it just has a lovely, magic energy here.

Got engaged in Ibiza.

-You're literally still in memories. -Didn't end well for me, but…

Oh.

Good morning.

You guys okay?

This shoot is for Filter, my fake tan brand,

which I've had now for five and a half years.

Yeah, this is perfect.

I love the little reflection. I feel like you can do some, like, selfies in there.

When she's stressed, she'll be very work-focused.

So nice to be behind the camera today.

And that's what's amazing about Molly.

Because she's so headstrong, if she wants to do something, she will do it.

-Stunning. -That's a nice group shot.

Yeah, that's perfect.

[Molly-Mae] Girls, you look amazing.

Honestly, wow.

I like your legs… Both legs up, Morgan. Like… Yeah, that's it.

Would you maybe sit like this? Both knees up like this.

Yeah, could you maybe turn a little bit more towards us, Alice?

I like it when all three of you are almost looking out

as if you've seen something over here, like, "What's over there?

Oh. There's a cute boy."

-Girls, look." -[models chuckle]

Can you interlock your feet? Yeah, nice.

Yes, maybe if you jump up.

I'll take that from you, and then maybe if you go behind Alissandra here…

Is it heavy? Yes.

Oh, Jesus.

How much back?

"How much back?" That was good English.

-"How much back?" -"How much back?"

Gorgeous.

Well, I can tell you it's already going to look unbelievable.

-Do we have some tuneage? -[model] Yes.

Any song requests for me? I can sing.

Let's go.

♪ It's a gamble like blackjack Rolling the dice ♪

♪ Hundreds in my bag Just to cover my vice ♪

I'm here for the vibes.

♪ It's a gamble like blackjack Rolling the dice ♪

When I'm in my work mode, I have to be in that headspace.

It's like I really want to concentrate, so I don't like any distractions.

Can we just… Sorry, I don't think we got that shot

where all three of you are fully looking out this way.

With, like, my two businesses that I now have,

like, I'm a control freak with what goes out on socials.

Okay, shall we switch up the poses a little bit?

That was quite a hard thing with being in a relationship in the public eye,

that you only have control over yourself.

But actually, like, there's two of you,

and I couldn't control what Tommy was doing or decisions he decided to make.

Right, girls, when you've had a minute and make-up,

maybe get yourself a drink, and… 'Cause it's going to be quite hot up there.

[phone buzzes]

[line ringing]

There's, like, a big magazine spread that came out this morning

with, like, "A source close to Molly says: Comment."

Honestly, I don't know what you want me to say. It's speculation.

I'm on a shoot. I can't… In front of models, I can't…

I honestly can't talk about it right now. I'm literally on a shoot.

[sighing]

Okay.

Okay. All right, bye-bye.

I think there is at least an article that comes out about me every day.

I haven't said any of the stuff they're saying, like…

There's just, like, so many press articles coming out all the time

where it's like, "A source close to Molly, a source close to Molly."

But, like, I don't understand where they're, like, pulling this source from.

This is the whole thing about everything being, like, completely fake news,

because I've just read an article this morning,

supposedly about everything I've said, and I've not said a single word of that.

So, it's just constantly stuff coming out that I don't have any control over.

[line ringing]

-Hiya, you okay? -[Francesca] Hiya.

It's speculation. That's what the mags do.

They run the pap pictures and run stories. There was one in heat magazine last week

saying that you wanted a million-pound prenup to get back together.

-It's just bullshit. -I know.

[Francesca] When bad things happen, the media, they shout even louder,

and the whole world gets invested into your nightmare.

I think it's sad to watch both of them go through that

when I know how much she loves Tommy,

and I know how much Tommy loves her.

But you never know what may happen in the future.

[Molly-Mae] I just didn't… I'm on this shoot,

and I didn't know… I just thought, "Honestly, I don't have time for this."

-Speak to you in a bit, Fran. -Bye-bye.

Bye, bye-bye, bye-bye.

[influencer] Here's how Molly-Mae destroyed her new brand, maebe,

in less than a month.

I think one way to describe life at the minute is,

I feel a little bit out of control with everything.

Everything with the press is kind of weighing me down.

The maebe stuff at the minute is just causing me a lot of anxiety.

And then, like, today I'm trying to focus on, like, Filter,

but there's always other stuff to be thinking about.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think what's getting me through

is the hope and the idea that Tommy and I,

we will end up back together.

All I want is for us to work.

It's obviously been a bit of a dark cloud over maebe since launch.

It is a big issue. I'm not happy with it at all.

I don't really know what we're going to do about it right now.

And it's really not a nice place to be,

especially when you're a young person that is gonna make mistakes

and isn't always going to get things a hundred per cent right.

When I land, I'm going straight from the airport

into a meeting about all the blazers.

I need to fix things before I make things worse for myself.

Difficult conversations, I can't bear to have them.

I don't ever really say how I properly feel,

which is stupid.

It feels like it's really hard to, like, explain that part of my personality,

but it's something that I just really struggle with.

[line ringing]

So, with the blazers, what's happening with the grey blazer?

There was a fault with the fabric,

so at that point, they've remade the blazer fabric…

-Right. -…sent it, without approval.

The fabric's not the same, and the collar's not the same.

-That's what I've noticed, like, with the… -Yeah.

…with the final production blazer.

So, we've got like 550 for that second drop

I'm in talks with the factory taking that stock back.

-So they won't charge us for that stock. -Okay. Well, that's promising.

It's promising, but it's disappointing

'cause obviously it's massive loss of sales for us, and it's one of our…

-Well, it's the key piece. -…pride pieces, you know.

But in terms of what you said about addressing it,

from my perspective, I just don't think it's

-the right thing to do. -Well…

-I think you're gonna bring up another… -No. I mean I've already factually,

like, a hundred per cent decided that I am going to address it.

I don't agree with it. I'm protecting you.

From a brand perspective,

you're gonna raise a hell of a load more questions if you address it.

So many mistakes were made in my life because I wasn't brave enough to say,

"That's not okay," or to say no.

So, I think with maebe, I really don't want that same situation to happen

where I constantly don't actually talk about how I really am feeling.

All right, well, this is what I get a bit frustrated with sometimes,

is that I feel like no-one really understands

the, like, immense amount of pressure my whole entire career is literally under

because of these blazers that are bobbling.

And it's to a point now where, like,

every single thing with maebe, like, can affect my other collabs.

It can affect my whole job.

So, like, I have to damage control myself.

I understand from a business perspective, for you…

As much as I get completely what you're saying,

I would love to absolutely not say anything.

It's my business at the end of the day,

I need to, like, put my big-girl pants on and actually step up a little bit.

-[Elisha] Okay then. -Speak to you in a bit.

Bye-bye, bye, bye.

And from the stress of that call, I've literally just picked off a nail.

I'm sick of people telling me, like, how to do my job.

Like, I know how my audience work.

She knows how the business works, I know how my audience work.

She needs to do the business stuff, I need to do the damage control from my side.

This is what the statement says,

"I just wanted to take a moment to address an issue

that arose with our grey blazer after its initial launch.

After looking into the situation, our manufacturer has confirmed

that the fabric used for this particular style and batch was faulty

and has since been recalled.

If you've experience any issues with your grey blazer,

please don't hesitate to reach out to our care team.

I thank you so much for your patience, understanding and support

during the early stages of this journey with maebe.

I'm so excited for what's to come, and I…

And I promise to keep learning and growing and improving with every collection."

-Perfect. -I think that's good.

I think it's perfect.

[Molly-Mae] The last couple of months have just reiterated to me

that I am a very strong person.

And I definitely feel like I'm proud of myself

for what I've gotten through the last couple of months,

because really it was the most important period of my career.

I'm happy now that we've come to a bit of a… potentially a bit of a solution,

and we have a bit of a plan in place for what we're now going to do moving forward.

[Zoe] I don't know if it's because you've had a stressful day,

but you just seem really sad.

[Molly-Mae] Everything at the minute is just a lot.

[Zoe] I thought you were about to burst into tears earlier.

No, I do feel like I could burst into tears today.

It is mainly Tommy.

It's just, like, thing after thing at the minute.

He's now sent me a text message saying

we're just going round and round in circles and we're not moving forwards.

That's why you're sad.

Up until now, I had the mindset of, "We will end up back together one day,

but right now, we need to be apart, and he needs to work on himself."

But how it's looking this week is that

maybe we are actually just done.

[Zoe] I know it's exhausting--

-No, it's exhausting. -I know,

but it would… If you didn't draw a line in the sand,

it will carry on being exhausting

-for the next five years. -But I don't want to,

'cause I don't wanna end it.

I knew we were gonna get back together.

-Surely you didn't. -No, I did know that.

-No, because you were waiting-- -That's why I've been okay.

Why do you think I've, like, not cried?

All I want in this life is to be with him,

and to have another baby with him, and to grow old as a family.

And to live in a nice house together,

-and to have a nice life together. -Unfortunately, I don't…

-That's all I want. -You can't.

-I know that… -But it's like…

…and it's all you've wanted for 5 years, and you've made that clear,

Obviously you're gonna find it hard to move forward

'cause you're still in touch with each other every day.

[exhales sharply]

You've got to be incredibly strong in this situation.

I just feel like everything this week's been building up, and it's just… [sniffs]

just kind of realising that, like, maybe…

these problems are just not gonna go away.

No matter how much I want things to fix themselves

and just be a happy family forever,

like, it's kind of just, like, realising that

that is kind of not possible.

Honest to God. Never, ever, ever, ever had me down for this whole situation.

I can't go through a break up, and go through all this stuff with maebe,

and be a mum, and do everything else. That's like…

I genuinely didn't think that we wouldn't get back together.

[sniffles] I just need a minute. Sorry.

[crew member] You okay, Moll?

Yeah, I just… I just can't keep doing this anymore.

I just can't keep doing the same thing over and over.

Like, it's just tiring.

I think I know what I need to do. It's just… Just doing it.

I just couldn't believe that Vogue, they wanted to do a shoot with me.

Normally, I'm always very much in control. But this, you do as you're told.

Molly's basically topping her make-up up. She'd rather get her own make-up bag out.

[Molly-Mae] It would be a bit easier if I wasn't so like,

"It needs to look a certain way."

If I wasn't such a perfectionist.

Honestly, this is not…

Right, I'm deleting it. I can't do this.

If you're reading something constantly about how ugly you are,

or how your body image isn't quite… You can start to believe that.

-No! No! -[stylist chuckles]

If filler had been a permanent thing, and I wasn't able to reverse what I'd done,

I could have genuinely completely destroyed my face.

I've always struggled with people's negative opinions.

[Francesca] She was getting a lot of death threats. It was pretty bad.

You don't know what could happen in the next day

-and make everyone suddenly… hates you. -Hate you.

L'Oréal are the official sponsor for Paris Fashion Week.

And they really want you to walk their catwalk

alongside their global ambassadors, like Kendall Jenner.

-[Molly-Mae] I couldn't. -But you should.

-These legs weren't cut out for that. -Spray for me. Three, two, one and go.

[Molly-Mae] I was completely unprepared.

[Francesca] Oh, my God. It's come out right this second.

No, my God. What?

"Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury kiss on New Years Eve."

-That is so bad. -[Francesca] You see?