‘It was a lot for Molly-Mae…’: How insiders fear a secret rivalry is brewing between Venezuela Fury and her MUCH more famous aunt, as ‘competition’ over fans threatened to overshadow bride’s big day
It was meant to be Venezuela Fury’s night – it was, after all, her 16th birthday party.
The eldest of boxing champion Tyson Fury and his wife Paris’s seven children donned a white sequined two-piece made specially for the big occasion held in a village hall near the family’s £5million mansion in Morecambe.
She knew, ahead of the lavish bash for 400 guests last September, that her then 18-year-old boyfriend, Noah Price, was going to propose to her that evening and couldn’t wait for the surprise.
Venezuela should have been the ‘girl of the moment’ – which she was for the most part – but she had to contend with another woman ‘upstaging’ her big day.
Stealing her spotlight was reportedly one Molly-Mae Hague, the former Love Island star who has become one of the most successful influencers of her generation, and who is a member of the Fury clan as she has a daughter with Venezuela’s uncle, Tommy Fury.
Molly-Mae was inundated by hundreds of party guests, most of them from her fan base of teenage girls, wanting selfies and to have a chat with the mega-influencer.
One insider said: ‘It was a lot for Molly-Mae, but they are Tommy’s family, so she didn’t mind being there, but it was all eyes on her for a lot of the evening.’
This would not have gone down well with the birthday girl.
Venezuela Fury after her wedding to Noah Price at the Royal Chapel of St John the Baptist on the Isle of Man
For I have been told that Venezuela, who hopes to establish herself as an influencer like Molly Mae, has a ‘tendency to feel competitive’ when it comes to her more famous ‘aunt’.
After all, when asked why Molly-Mae did not attend Venezuela’s hen do, which saw 300 friends and family head to Morecambe Football Club for the over-the-top event, matriarch Paris admitted they decided it was for the best as the 27-year-old influencer, who is pregnant with her second child, would be ‘tortured by fans’.
Venezuela’s mother, who was speaking as a guest on social media personality Joe Bags’s podcast with her eldest daughter, explained: ‘I spoke to Molly literally a couple of nights before, and obviously she’s pregnant.
‘And I said “Molly, obviously you know the hen night’s on” and she said they’ve booked a vacation away – her and Tommy, and I went, “Do not blame you”.
‘I said there was three or four hundred guests at her hen night, all young teenage girls and all of them fans of Molly-Mae. You know she’ll be tortured. She got tortured at her [Venezuela’s] birthday.’
Sat next to her mother, a sour-faced Venezuela interjected at this point: ‘I got tortured at my own birthday.’ She explained that her guests mainly consisted of her extended travelling family.
The teenager added: ‘It was like, “Oh get a picture, get a picture” and obviously, I half know them, who’s coming up to me, I don’t really know, I couldn’t tell you their names.
‘But like, you’re that one’s sister, that one’s niece and it’s like I don’t want to say no because it’s evil.’
Influencer Molly-Mae Hague at Venezuela and Noah’s wedding, with daughter Bambi
Venezuela’s 800,000-strong online following is not a patch on Molly-Mae’s 16million social media fans and last month made it on to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list with her £20million fortune.
‘There is a tendency to feel competitive,’ my source revealed. ‘Venezuela would love to reach the same levels as Molly-Mae but they have completely different aesthetics.’
Molly-Mae has built a fashion empire based on her ‘clean-girl’ look.
After she came second on Love Island in 2018 with Tommy Fury, now 27, the influencer signed a £600,000 deal in 2019 with the fast fashion brand Pretty Little Thing before becoming its creative director in 2021.
Since then Molly-Mae has set up her own brand, Maebe, which has captured the attention of her millions of female teenage fans who race to get their hands on a garment each time she releases a new line.
And so when it came to Venezuela’s wedding day on the Isle of Man on Saturday, Molly-Mae tried to keep her appearance low-key, even ditching her usual nude look for black.
Donning an understated black lace jumpsuit covering her 37-week pregnancy bump, the reality star no doubt wanted to avoid ‘upstaging’ the bride.
‘I am so big on wedding guest etiquette,’ Molly-Mae previously told her YouTube followers. ‘If your dress has a smidge of white in it, don’t wear it. I find it painfully awkward when anyone at a wedding wears anything that could look white.’
Molly-Mae is pregnant with her second child. The chatter that emerged from the wedding was less about the bride herself and more about why Molly dressed so ‘casually’
But despite her plain look, she could not avoid becoming the main talking point of the day.
The multi-millionaire ostentatiously flew in on a £15,000 private jet from Manchester to the ceremony where her two-year-old daughter Bambi was one of Venezuela’s 18 bridesmaids.
And the chatter that emerged from the wedding was less about the bride herself and more about why Molly-Mae dressed so ‘casually’, how she left the reception early and the fact that Tommy didn’t attend.
Tyson’s younger brother had to stay in Manchester for a boxing training camp, leaving his heavily pregnant partner to go to the wedding as their delegate.
It didn’t help that she used an umbrella to cover Bambi’s face as she entered the Victorian Royal Chapel of St John’s, sparking yet more online speculation as to why she did this.
Meanwhile, there has been little mention of the 40ft train of Venezuela’s dress and despite the pictures and videos her guests posted, the only moment to have generated any real social media interest is when she and her father, Tyson, walked down the aisle to the Notorious BIG’s rap song Juicy.
Even that was seen through the lens of Molly-Mae, as comments online asked how she would have reacted to the song as she stood in the pews with Bambi.
But despite this Venezuela continued to behave as if she was in Molly-Mae’s ‘league’.
Speaking to her 800,000 followers on Instagram at the airport on the way to her Marbella honeymoon, the new ‘Mrs Price’ feared she would be inundated with fans, as Molly-Mae regularly is. ‘I’m not going to tell youse where we are going,’ she said, ‘because I don’t want youse showing up.’
Upon her return, she will swap her life of luxury living in her parents’ £8million mansion for a modest two-bedroom caravan.
She will begin married life with Noah in the new static home, which was gifted to them by her parents.
Taking to TikTok ahead of their honeymoon, the teenager shared a first look of ‘R first ever home’.
Her photos show a marble bathroom with a free-standing bath and a cream kitchen overlooking woodland.
The living room has a built-in TV cabinet with a fireplace beneath it and the bedroom comes with wardrobes and fresh grey carpet.
Speaking of the two rival women, my source says: ‘You just can’t even begin to compare them… they are in different leagues. Molly-Mae would never dream of sharing her house on social media because she’s learned that crazy fans turn up.’
Now enjoying their £30,000 honeymoon – also gifted by her father along with an extra £5million to start their lives together – the new couple appeared besotted with each other as they kissed and walked along the beach in Puerto Banús holding hands.
With Molly-Mae almost 3,000 miles away, there is at least no way she can ‘upstage’ Venezuela now.
Unless, of course, she gives birth – her her due date is in two weeks, after all…
