Tommy Fury has been trying to rebuild his family life with Molly-Mae Hague and their daughter Bambi ever since their split in August 2024 and reconciliation in May 2025

Tommy Fury’s visibly hurt as boxer dad gives stern warning about daughter Bambi(Image: BBC)

Tommy Fury found himself at odds with his father John in the latest episode of his new BBC documentary, The Good, The Bad, The Fury, after being told he should not spend Christmas Day with his young daughter, Bambi.

The 25-year-old former Love Island star, who shares his two-year-old daughter with fiancée Molly-Mae Hague, has been preparing for a major fight. John Fury insisted that family time during the festive period would derail Tommy’s focus.

In episode two of the series, John made it clear that he expected his son to dedicate himself fully to his gruelling training camp.

“The thing we don’t want is distractions. People coming. We don’t want it,” he warned. “Because when you’re here and you’re talking to people you’re not resting. You want to be training eat, drink, sleep, train, repeat. It’s six weeks of hell but you’ve got another four to six weeks to go and to do the other stuff, haven’t you? All that’s out there is the pub, alcohol, s*** food and s*** company.”

Tommy pushed back, pointing out that he already lives a life consumed by training. “That’s all I ever do anyway. I don’t do nothing else my whole life. Train,” he responded.

But John stood firm, telling his son that discipline sometimes meant making sacrifices, even with family. “If you can’t sacrifice six weeks of your time without your children, all that s*** in the world outside. What we doing here?” he asked.

John told Tommy he shouldn’t be with his daughter Bambi at Christmas(Image: CREDIT LINE:BBC / Optomen Television Limited)

Tommy, however, was adamant that taking just a short time away from camp to see his daughter on Christmas Day would not affect his performance in the ring. “I can’t see, on Christmas Day, me picking the baby, me saying ‘Merry Christmas’, I can’t see that going to lead me to win a fight or not,” he said.

John shot back with a blunt response: “You’re not doing that this time.” When Tommy countered that “you’ve got to be happy,” his father dismissed the idea, insisting that reaching the next level in boxing requires uncompromising commitment.

“Yeah, but you just got to go and hug the baby for five minutes. There’s no harm in that,” Tommy argued. But John was having none of it: “You go back, you have your Christmas, you hold the baby, all of a sudden you get an L on your record for that day. You will never look at them in the same light again, family or not family because you’ll resent them.”

Tommy and Molly-Mae are proud parents to two-year-old daughter Bambi (Image: instagram.com/mollymae)

Frustrated, Tommy reiterated that “20 minutes out of my day on Christmas” wouldn’t make a difference, but John doubled down with a final, cutting remark: “The greats don’t do it.”

Tommy spoke about the difficult situation in a candid piece to camera after their disagreement, explaining: “My dad doesn’t understand the modern world. And obviously he’s just an old school fella and the way the world is today, you know, even I find it hard to live in the world sometimes today, with the amount of bull**** that’s going on.”