WITH designer clothes, private jets and lavish parties, being the child of heavyweight champ Tyson Fury means a world of privilege – but there are also strict rules.
The chaotic life of The Gypsy King, wife Paris and their six kids is laid bare in the new Netflix documentary, At Home with the Furys, and reveals the boxer as a wild, impulsive dad who is a stern disciplinarian.
The couple certainly have their hands full looking after Venezuela, 13, Prince John James, 11, Prince Tyson II, seven, Valencia, five, Prince Adonis, four, and Athena, who turns two this week.
While swearing and rowdiness is rife among the boys – with youngest son Adonis flipping the finger at the camera and Prince making liberal use of the F-word – Venezuela feels stifled by the rules.
“I get on well with my dad but he’s very strict,” she complains. “He just doesn’t like me wearing make-up and looking nice.”
Venezuela is banned by her dad from wearing short skirts, too much make-up and long false lashes, and she reveals he blew his top over a picture mum Paris, 32, sent before a party, when she was wearing a clingy lilac dress.
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“My mum, being the fool that she is, sent him a photo saying ‘me and Venezuela are off to a party,’ with a photo of me and her, and he went ‘she looks like this, she looks like that’. He went mental," she says.
She hints that the pair won’t make that mistake again, adding with a grin: “Strict parents raise sneaky kids.”
Teenage struggles
While getting a manicure on a girls’ day out, she teases Paris with long talons before being told to get them “short, and I mean ugly short”.
Supermum Paris, 32, says they are both struggling with the idea of their daughter becoming a teenager and admits Tyson wants to keep her from going out until she’s in her 20s.
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“I can see she’s growing up into a young woman,” she says. “It’s definitely new skills we need as parents because we’re not prepped for the teenagers yet.
“When she was growing up Big Tyson used to say she can do what she wants, wear make-up and miniskirts, go anywhere. We’re not putting rules on her.
“Then she turned 12 and all the rules changed. Tyson doesn’t like short skirts, lots of make-up or anything, but it’s just about him accepting he has a teenage daughter.”
Paris adds that growing up as one of five brothers means Tyson doesn’t understand girls.
“Tyson is a dad who never had sisters so we’re trying to learn him (sic) about daughters and rites of passage to do things,” she says. “I think she should be 14 or 15 before she starts going to social places. I think her dad thinks 25, 30.”
To Venezuela, her dad’s rules are a constant frustration and she asks Paris: “He says I’m not leaving the door til I get married, but how am I supposed to get married if l’m not leaving the door?”
But unswerving Tyson says she is growing up too fast.
“As soon as she got to 11, 12, she decided she was a woman,” he says. “She’s tall, skinny, pretty. She’s got it all going on.”
He adds: “All the time they’re under my roof and I’m paying for them, they have to put up with my horrible rules.
“The moment they leave home, they can do exactly what they want when they’re adults can’t they? That’s just how the cookie crumbles.”
Future champ
While Venezuela is expected to learn the ropes in the kitchen, Tyson’s three sons are taken to training in the boxing gym, with their dad.
“It’s really important for the boys to learn how to box because it’s not going to be easy for them being Tyson Fury’s son,” he says.
“There’s going to be people trying to punch them in the face, all sorts of stuff, and if they can't defend themselves, they’re going to be bullied.”
But he admits Prince is not a natural fighter and shows “zero interest” in the sport, and the 11-year-old pushes back, swearing at his dad when he is asked to hit harder and refusing to do press ups.
“Boxing is very dangerous,” says Prince. “Who can’t say that when you’re being punched in the face?
“I think I could do something else, I’ve got time to learn. I’m not even in high school yet. I’ve got a lot of time.”
While he was only six when the documentary was filmed, young Tyson, known as Tutty, shows more promise.
He is seen lifting heavy weights in the gym and declaring he’s going to be a champion in the ring when he grows up – as his jubilant dad shouts: “He’s the best. He’s going to be good. The future’s bright, the future’s Fury.”
“Tutty loves boxing, enjoys fighting,” Tyson says. “I sit in bed with Paris and say, ‘I’m really proud of what he’s becoming, he’s going to be the one.’”
Understandably, Paris has reservations about her sons taking up the sport.
“I don’t know if they’ll follow in their dad’s footsteps but there’s definitely a path paved there if they wanted to,” she says. “I wouldn’t push them into it because I don’t like watching Tyson box so can’t imagine what it’s like to watch the kids box.”
Keeping kids grounded
The couple – who have an estimated wealth of £51million – are determined to keep their kids grounded.
When Prince asks his dad why he doesn't pay someone to do the chores he hates, like emptying the bins, Tyson says: “How much would it cost to pay someone to do this for a day? £100. And £100 is a lot of money to me.
"I remember the days when I didn’t have £100 and I’d have done this all day for a oner. Never lose sight of who you are. If you can save a oner, save it.
“I’m never going to forget where I came from, and how hard things are, so I’m instilling that into my kids that nothing comes free in life. Anything that is any good in life you have to work hard for.”
Venezuela was taken out of school at 11, as is traditional in the travelling community, and tells her mum she doesn't want to follow in the “Gypsy tradition” and be a “wifey” and that she doesn’t want to “do anything” for a living when she grows up.
Paris, who is unsuccessfully trying to teach her to cook, blasts her as “a privileged little brat” who’s “just going to sponge off your father".
Chaos
With six kids and a seventh on the way, there’s never a dull moment in the Fury household and Tyson – whose bipolar leads to huge highs and lows and wild, impulsive behaviour – often adds to the mayhem.
“Chaos is a way of life for the Fury family,” says Paris. “I don’t think you can impose order.”
When Paris makes a ten-hour round trip to appear on TV’s Loose Women, he takes the kids camping without telling her.
Returning to an empty house, Paris fumes: “I’ve got a giant, 6ft 9in child. I don’t see the sense, the kids are in school tomorrow.
“That’s the problem with living with him, he’s so up and down, which I suppose is a definition of the bipolar."
She adds: “I’ll humour my husband and pretend this is normality when really, it is absolute madness.
“But if I don’t let him have his little moments he gets a bit down and depressed and he gets upset.”
Although a devoted dad who often declares “home is where the heart is and where the family is”, Tyson struggles with his recent retirement in the show, filmed last year, and is seen hiding from Adonis’ birthday celebrations to pack for an event on the Isle of Man.
He also ducks out early at youngest daughter Athena’s christening, putting a “dampener” on the lavish party Paris has arranged.
Paris, Tyson’s “Rock”, admits his rollercoaster moods “get on our nerves” but says she has learned to go along for the ride.
“Tyson’s thought pattern doesn’t work to the normal way of the world so whatever he says, whatever he does, I’ve learned to adjust to it,” she says.
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“To fight against it doesn’t work so it’s easier to roll with it.”
At Home With The Furys is released on Netflix on August 16.
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