Molly-Mae: Behind It All review – mundane details wash over you and suddenly three hours have gone by

The Love Island star offers her thoughts on pyjamas, her fashion brand, her favourite order at McDonald’s … in a TV show that’s surprisingly carefully produced

Molly-Mae: Behind It All is a Keep Calm and Carry On poster in the form of a beige, hyperbolic, strangely enthralling documentary. It was supposed to be about Molly-Mae Hague’s wedding to Tommy Fury, the man with whom she won Love Island in 2019, who was her partner for five years, and is the father of their daughter, Bambi. The couple got engaged in the summer of 2023 in Ibiza. You may have seen the video of his proposal; anything they do is tabloid catnip. But in August last year, she posted on Instagram that they had broken up. So instead, this has been repurposed into a documentary about Hague’s new life as a single mother and a businesswoman, about to launch her first fashion brand.

It is not unfair to say that most people will be tuning in to find out the gossip. Such is the fuss around Hague and Fury that episodes for review were released only at the very last minute, under heavy embargo. A photograph of the exes kissing at a New Year’s Eve party hit the headlines, and will be covered in the final block of episodes, which are due later this year. It is clearly having to play catch-up with an online world that is far more immediate than television.