At Home With The Furys: Tyson and Paris’ love story after falling for one another at 15
The Furys are one of Britain’s most fascinating celebrity families – and now the Furys are about to get bigger.
Heavyweight champion boxer Tyson yesterday announced he and his wife Paris are expecting their sixth child.
“The Lord has blessed us with another child and I’m very thankful,” he said. “Got a beautiful wife, beautiful kids, they’re all healthy. That’s the most important thing, you know, your health and your family. Nothing else really matters.”
The Furys’ eccentric lifestyle has endeared them to the nation, so here’s everything you need to know about the soon-to-be eight-strong family…
Relationships
Tyson met Paris 19 years ago when she was just 15 at a mutual friend’s wedding.
Like Tyson, who grew up in a gypsy family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, Paris was also raised in a traditional traveller family in Doncaster, South Yorks.
“The only thing I remember him vividly saying was, ‘You look like a Sindy doll’ and it upset me badly because Sindy is a second rate Barbie,” Paris previously said.
They met up again by chance a year later at Paris’ 16th birthday party, and wed in a traditional gypsy ceremony in 2009 – but didn’t sleep together until the night of their
Paris said: “Even after we got engaged, Tyson would sleep in a caravan in the yard of my parents’ home, while I slept inside the house.”
In 2016, Tyson’s cocaine and alcohol abuse, and intolerable mood swings, threatened their marriage, but Paris admitted: “I wanted to leave every day. I literally packed the car and the kids a few times. But I’m like ‘how can I leave?’ If you truly love someone you’re not going to leave them to crash and burn.”
