Few actuality TV {couples} have captured the nations consideration fairly like Molly Smith and Tom Clare. After successful the very first collection of Love Island: All Stars in 2024, their whirlwind villa romance became a real-world love story – and now, an engagement!
However they’re not simply planning their massive day alone – they’re inviting the general public alongside for the journey.
The couple are stepping right into a brand-new chapter because the hosts of Nearlyweds with Molly & Tom, the connection podcast initially fronted by Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo. Swapping solar loungers for studio mics, Molly and Tom are inviting listeners inside their journey from actuality TV sweethearts to real-life fiancés – sharing the highs, the trustworthy moments, and all the pieces in between as they put together for married life.
As they take over the reins, we sit down with the Love Island legends to speak engagement life, navigating love within the public eye, and what followers can anticipate from this new period of Nearlyweds…
Molly and Tom, congratulations in your engagement! Given how a lot of your lives play out within the public eye, once you strip away the social media gloss and the hype round your relationship, how does it really feel to be engaged? It’s such a big, real-life milestone.
Molly: It feels superb! It’s such an exquisite feeling realizing you’ve discovered your ceaselessly individual.
Tom: We really feel actually fortunate – fortunate to have discovered one another, and fortunate to be as comfortable as we’re collectively, as a result of not everyone will get to expertise the type of love we have now for one another, and that truly makes me really feel actually unhappy, as a result of I would like everybody to have what we have now.
Molly: We’re so grateful to be doing life collectively aren’t we?
Tom: Completely! We’re using the wave, and having fun with being in an engagement bubble.
Rising up, was marriage one thing you each all the time dreamed of or imagined for yourselves?
Tom: If I mentioned ‘no’ – Molly would kill me (laughs).
Molly: TOM! Personally, I’ve all the time envisioned getting married, and having that basis of a husband and a household at residence. And regardless of him joking round now, I do know that’s what Tom desires too, as a result of it’s one thing he’s all the time talked about and been very trustworthy about.
Tom: We’re each lucky in the truth that we grew up with our dad and mom being collectively, so in a method you possibly can’t assist however take a look at that and never need the identical in your personal life. To fulfill somebody and have a household with them is 100% one thing I’ve all the time dreamed of.
How has being engaged modified the dynamic of your relationship, if in any respect?
Molly: Between the 2 of us, how we stay and the way we handle our everyday lives, I don’t suppose something’s modified that a lot to be trustworthy with you.
Tom: Besides the truth that Molly does all the pieces with left hand now…
Molly: (laughs) yeah I’m unexpectedly left handed girlie now he’s put a hoop on it! If something has modified in our relationship, I’d say it’s simply the truth that there’s this new degree of pleasure between us, as we begin to plan the marriage, and picture what the times going to be like.
Tom: An engagement positively solidifies the standing of a relationship doesn’t it? It’s a giant step ahead, as you’re making an actual dedication to 1 one other, and saying that you simply’re critical about being collectively ceaselessly, which I personally actually like. I wished Molly to know that this was it, and that I used to be all in… and I wished to place a hoop on her finger.
It’s been six months since Tom’s epic proposal, and your schedules appear busier than ever – why did this really feel like the correct second to step in and take the reins of the Nearlyweds podcast?
Molly: I believe the timing is ideal, I actually do. When the concept was first put to us, we each say ‘sure’ instantly! It’s an excellent alternative, and we’d have been loopy to have turned it down.
Tom: We each actually love Jamie and Sophie. It was really Jamie who reached out and requested us personally if we wished to do it, and we actually couldn’t consider it, as a result of actually it’s a podcast we take heed to loads once we’re driving backwards and forwards to London.
Molly: It was fairly overwhelming at first wasn’t it? Like Tom mentioned, we’re such massive followers of the podcast, I imply I bear in mind us attempting to get tickets for the stay tour (laughs). So it’s very surreal to suppose we’re the brand new ‘nearlyweds’.
Tom: However we’re not in any method, form or kind taking on or changing Sophie and Jamie, we’re simply approaching board to share our story.
When it comes to the general really feel of the pod, are you going for extra of a “no filter” vibe, or are their sure elements of your relationship you need to shield and preserve non-public?
Tom: I believe there are elements to each relationship that you simply wish to preserve non-public, in fact! However when it comes to what we share and say on the podcast… it’s very uncooked! As a result of in addition to speaking concerning the engagement, and the marriage, we additionally talk about all the different issues occurring in our lives as nicely, so there are moments when we have now to ‘go there’ and get just a little bit critical. However total I’d say there’s an excellent steadiness of overlaying the great occasions, the unhealthy occasions, the comfortable occasions, and the occasions once you perhaps fall out… it’s all in there. I like that although, as a result of that’s actual life, that’s actuality! Social media has made it tough for individuals to grasp that I believe. Folks wish to submit a snapshot of their lives on-line that solely captures the great, and that isn’t a real reflection of how anyones life is. So I like that we’re exhibiting a special aspect to our lives and personalities.
Molly: We each come from a actuality background, I imply… the beginning of our relationship was on proven on nationwide TV (laughs) so I believe at this level we’re each fairly used to sharing most issues. As people, and as a pair we had been very open and uncooked throughout our time on the present (Love Island), so my feeling is, why not proceed with that honesty on the podcast? It’s good to present those that perception.
You’ve such an excellent, and distinctive story to inform…
Molly: We love that our journey collectively has been captured and documented from the start. It’s like a pleasant little time capsule that we’ll be capable of preserve ceaselessly. Sooner or later, if we do have youngsters, we’ll be capable of sit them down and present them how we met… really I don’t know if we’ll need to do that may we?
Tom: Oh I’ll! Our children are going to look at all the pieces!
‘Nearlyweds’ is all about giving listeners a window into your world and exhibiting what planning a marriage is absolutely like. So, let’s get straight to the necessary query: are you laid-back planners, or are you already buried deep in Pinterest boards and spreadsheets?
Tom: I believe we’re a little bit of each… don’t you?
Molly: Yeah I believe so! We steadiness one another out, so if I’m ever going off on one, Tom can calm me down and vice versa.
What do you hope listeners take away from the pod?
Molly: That planning a marriage isn’t all the time straightforward, excellent or glamorous. You may’t all the time get or have what you need, and that’s okay. We’ve actually tried to be as uncooked and trustworthy as doable. The truth is, that is the primary time both of us has ever deliberate a marriage, and so we don’t actually know what we’re doing! There’s loads to navigate, and also you come up in opposition to issues on a regular basis that you simply wouldn’t think about being an issue… however they’re (laughs). So we’re studying loads, and we’re hoping that anyone on the market who’s planning a marriage themselves, listens and might relate… and perhaps be taught from a few of our errors.
Marriage is all about two individuals coming collectively as one, so I’m curious – what had been these first conversations like once you began discussing the type of marriage ceremony you wished? Did your visions differ in any respect?
Molly: Have you learnt what? On the entire I’d say, to this point, so good… however we’ve clearly nonetheless obtained a whole lot of planning and work to do, so who is aware of, in a couple of weeks time we’d hit a couple of hindrances! Don’t get me improper although, it’s not all been plain crusing, and there have been a couple of little issues we’ve disagreed on that we speak about on the podcast…
Tom: Just one or two (laughs). For me personally, I don’t know if I’d ever actually had a imaginative and prescient for a way I wished my marriage ceremony to be. Now I’m planning it, I’m realising there’s loads to contemplate. I say it on a regular basis on podcast, I believe it’s good to have a girl’s enter and contact on issues, as a result of I don’t know if a whole lot of guys take into consideration all the small particulars that may actually make a day that additional bit particular.
Molly: I believe it’s good if at the very least one individual within the relationship has a little bit of a imaginative and prescient, as a result of if neither of you do, then you definitely’re just a little bit screwed (laughs).
With regards to guaranteeing selections or managing the price range, do you ever have to drag one another again if one in every of you will get just a little too carried away?
Tom: The straightforward reply to this query is… sure!
Molly: I’d say I’m extra a let’s do it and take into consideration the results (and the price of issues) later type of individual, so…
Tom: Yeah Molly’s actually good at woman math, and never so good on the type of maths we had been taught at school.
Molly: The woman math ain’t mathing typically I’ll admit (laughs). Tom’s simply extra of a realist than me…
Tom: …yeah, as a result of I see what’s going out of our joint checking account (laughs).
Have you ever discovered something new about one another all through this complete marriage ceremony planning course of?
Tom: We’ve positively learnt that we’re each perfectionists! We mull over very single element, irrespective of how tiny, to the purpose the place it’s ridiculous! However it’s solely as a result of we would like the day itself to be excellent. Clearly, the marriage is about me and Molly, however we would like everyone there to really feel like they’re part of it too, so we have now to get issues proper.
Molly: It’s shocked me just a little bit at how chilled we’re about sure issues although! I assumed we’d get far more burdened about stuff… however I suppose it’s nonetheless early days isn’t it? The stress and the dramas may nonetheless be incoming (laughs).
Are you able to give us any hints concerning the marriage ceremony vibe – massive and glamorous or intimate and relaxed?
Tom: It’s going to be a little bit of all the pieces…
Molly: …yeah, it’ll hopefully be an actual combination of massive and small moments.
With out giving a proof, who’s extra hands-on with the planning?
Molly: Me.
Tom: Yeah, she’s the boss!
Who’s extra prone to sneak a chunk of marriage ceremony cake earlier than the official cake-cutting ceremony?
Molly: Tom!
Tom: Yeah, if there have been ever to be a large chunk of cake lacking, it’s most likely me who’s lower into it!
Molly: That’s effective… so long as you are taking a chunk from the again! Please don’t lower into it on the entrance, and spoil the pictures.
After dinner speeches – ought to they be heartfelt and conventional? Or scandalous and outrageous?
Tom: BOTH!
Molly: Oh no method! You need there to be scandalous and outrageous speeches at our marriage ceremony?
Tom: Yeah, however combined in with good bits too!
Molly: Oh no, I’d fairly they be a bit extra heartfelt and romantic.
Should you might have one artist or band play on the reception who would it not be?
Molly: Bruno Mars!
Tom: That’s an excellent shout! However I’m going to say Jason Derulo, as a result of we went to see a couple of weeks in the past and he was sick!
Molly: Yeah, he was superb wasn’t he?.. however I don’t fairly know if what he does is marriage ceremony acceptable although? Perhaps if he comes with out his dancers and simply sings then it could be okay (laughs).
Have you ever picked the track in your first dance but?
Molly: No. We’ve obtained a couple of choices on the minute, however we’ve not totally determined what it will likely be but, we have to slender the record down…
Tom: What are you speaking about, it’s going to be The Excessive Faculty Musical theme tune! No, I’m solely kidding. We’ve had a couple of listens of some choices on Spotify, and we’ve put a little bit of a playlist collectively, however no selections have been made about that but.
Molly: There’s nonetheless time for a brand new track to return out isn’t there? No matter we select I’m certain it will likely be excellent.
Will we see any of your marriage ceremony journey documented in different methods apart from the pod?
Molly: Effectively, Tom desires to take a GoPro on his stag do… and I’m all for it to trustworthy!
Tom: Are you able to think about having to look at that footage again!
Molly: Effectively you’ve mentioned it now…
Tom: Erm… altering the topic! I believe there’s a plan for us to movie some vlogs that may go up on the ‘Nearlyweds’ social channels, so I believe that can be enjoyable and entertaining for individuals to look at. Apart from that, we’ll simply have to attend and see…
Nearlyweds with Molly and Tom is out third March on YouTube and all podcast platforms
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