LOVE Island’s Tommy Fury risks the wrath of his family by quitting boxing for a year to cash in on his telly celeb opportunities.
Just a week after finishing runner-up on the ITV2 show alongside Molly-Mae Hague, Tommy has confided in pals that he plans to hang up his boxing gloves for a while so he can make the most of the work projects available at the height of his Love Island fame.
A telly source said: “Tommy knows he is in a unique position with work opportunities coming out of his ears.
“He has TV projects on the table, as well as lucrative branding deals, so wants to concentrate on those for a year so he can set himself up for the future.
“He knows that if he makes enough capital he can invest in his future, whether it’s property or training, and re-focus on boxing later.
“Molly is supportive and just wants Tommy to be happy.”
The news is likely to disappoint his heavyweight superstar brother Tyson who predicted this distraction.
While Tommy was still in the Majorca villa, Tyson said: “He might get carried away being a TV reality star rather than a fighting man – and it’s the last thing he needs to do when he’s trying to become a professional fighter.”
As long as he doesn’t have too many nights on the sauce he should be back on fighting form in no time.
IT’S a racy show featuring booze, drugs and crime – no wonder Brassic was conceived by Dominic West necking ale and Joe Gilgun smoking a spliff.
The pair became pals on the set of gay rights movie Pride in 2014, and posh Dominic was left in fits by Chorley-born Joe’s hilarious tales of living in a northern town.
So he suggested the This Is England actor bring all the stories together and the result was the Sky One comedy, which also stars Michelle Keegan.
Joe said: “We’re a bizarre pair up, but we do seem to get on. I was smoking dope, when he brought this geezer round from the Cirque du Soleil and a two litre Evian bottle, full of IPA pale ale. They’d been on the p***.
“I was telling them all these stories, and Dom just said: ‘You can’t just be telling yarns like this, you need something on paper, these stories are fantastic.’”
The six-part series, which starts on August 22, sees Joe play Vinnie, who juggles all sorts of low-level crimes while running a cannabis farm. His long-suffering doctor is played by Dominic and Michelle is his girlfriend, Erin.
It’s a clever mix of comedy and pathos, and the first episode features a bid to kidnap a pony using chloroform. Yes, that old storyline . . .
WHAT? Sacred Wonders, BBC1, 9pm.
WHY? A new series visiting spectacular landmarks and locations to look at how different people worship. The journey begins in China and Cambodia.
THE Simpsons’ music is almost as distinctive as its yellow-toned cast, which is why the sacking of the show’s composer was big news.
Now Alf Clausen – who wrote music for more than 560 episodes of the hit animation – is suing the creators.
Alf, 78, claims he was fired in 2017 because of his age and an unspecified disability – although bosses claimed it was because they were “taking the music in a different direction”.
The show, which debuted in its current form 30 years ago, centres on Homer Simpson, wayward son Bart and other members of his unique family.
Alf led a 35-piece orchestra to make the show’s sounds and often produced variations on the theme music, which was created by Danny Elfman.
The suit, filed by Alf’s lawyers, claims age discrimination, saying his replacement was: “substantially younger, who was not only paid less, but was not disabled.” I can see this case getting messy.
A NEW C4 documentary on Jade Goody shows how desperate she was to make money for her two sons before her death in 2009.
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain is a three-parter starting Wednesday night. It tells how she entered into a partnership with photographer Danny Hayward and in return for thousands of pounds she was snapped at various times, including getting wheeled in and out of London’s Royal Marsden Hospital when she was dying of cancer.
Danny said: “It almost became a red carpet at the front of the Royal Marsden. It was almost, ‘The show must go on . . . because the show’s coming to an end’. Let’s get what we can – that’s the harsh reality – and we did it.”
A tragic story expertly told in a quality documentary.
