The former Love Islander has said she and her partner are unsure about sending their three-year-old daughter to school as they don’t want her to “lose herself”
20:06, 02 Mar 2026Updated 20:06, 02 Mar 2026
Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury ‘on the fence’ about sending Bambi, 3, to school(Image: Instagram/ @mollymae)
Molly-Mae Hague has said she and Tommy Fury are unsure about sending their daughter, three-year-old Bambi, to school. The couple are “on the fence” as they don’t want the tot to “lose herself”.
Former Love Island star Molly-Mae shared in a recent vlog that she would want Bambi to go to a Catholic school if she did go to a school, but that she was considering home-schooling her. The reason behind this thought was that she worried Bambi would “lose her spark” if she went to a school.
She said she thought her views on schools might be “controversial” after visiting one: “We went to go and visit a school for Bambi. I feel as though it could be quite a controversial one. You know me, I can sneeze and people will find it controversial.
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Tommy and Molly-Mae may not send Bambi to school(Image: mollymae Instagram)
Molly-Mae shared her thoughts in a vlog(Image: Molly Mae/Instagram)
“I’m not really going to go into depth about it but we were very much feeling on the fence with schooling and what we were going to do and where we are at with it,” she added. Molly-Mae continued to say she went to a “normal school”, not a private one and that there are “not many” of the “kind of school” she and her partner, Tommy, wanted to send their daughter to.
“Catholic schools are few and far between and it’s a non negotiable because it’s Tommy’s religion. He wants her to go to a Catholic school and obviously I support that.”
She continued that Tommy “really wants” the church to be part of Bambi’s “upbringing” and that they would get her and their second child baptised at the same time. Molly-Mae is currently pregnant and is expected to give birth in a few months.
“I definitely want her to go to school,” the influencer added. “But I just don’t know what that looks like. I don’t know in what capacity. I think the legal age you have to send them is five. Do we wait a little bit? Do we just take her lead if it seems like she’s ready?”
Molly-Mae added that she felt Bambi has “got so much personality” and is “such a spark”, meaning sending her to school was difficult. She also said that it was “terrifying” to give her child to someone else to look after for five days a week.
The parents don’t want Bambi to lose her spark(Image: Instagram)
Tommy and Molly-Mae are expecting another child(Image: Instagram)
Later, she continued to explain why she was looking at schools when she wasn’t sure about sending Bambi to one. “The reason we are looking around is because everyone is pressurising us, saying you need to get a space if you want her to go to one of these great schools, but this is too overwhelming for me.
“Equally, I don’t want Bambi to miss out and if she wants to go to school, obviously we are going to encourage that. I just want her to be happy. If we enrol her in a school and she absolutely loves it and she is thriving then that is amazing. That’s what we want.
“Equally, we might put her in a school if that’s what we decide to do, but it might not be what works – but could homeschooling be an option?” Molly-Mae then made it clear that their thoughts on schooling had nothing to do with Tommy’s heritage as a traveller. The boxer is “half traveller on his dad’s side” and went to a school.
Another factor affected their decision – that Molly-Mae did not enjoy school. “What also doesn’t help is that I really didn’t enjoy school, at all. People say you really look back at school as the best years of your life and I certainly don’t. I think my year group was quite a b**chy year group.
“School was meant to be fun and it’s meant to be the best years of your life. It’s meant to be the part of your life before things get serious. That school felt so serious.
“We all have different opinions… She might have a completely different experience to me and I don’t ever want to make a decision that’s then going to hinder her future.”
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