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Topics: Tyson Fury, Paris Fury, Netflix, Celebrity, Sex and Relationships, Reality TV, TV And Film
Ben Williams
Topics: Tyson Fury, Paris Fury, Netflix, Celebrity, Sex and Relationships, Reality TV, TV And Film
Tyson Fury has never exactly been shy when it comes to speaking his mind, and now he’s opened up about one of the most personal parts of his marriage to wife Paris.
The boxer has been reflecting on life at home, their nearly two-decade relationship, and why he still sees their connection as a huge part of who he is away from the ring.
It means the latest comments from Fury are some of his most candid yet, with the heavyweight star turning the spotlight away from boxing for a moment and on to how things are between him and Paris behind closed doors.
For anyone wondering whether the spark has faded after seven children and years in the public eye, Fury made it very clear that, in his view, it has not.
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In fact, he sounded pretty pleased with himself.
Speaking in the upcoming second season of At Home With The Furys, according to a preview obtained by The Sun, he said: “My love life’s thriving, I’m having sex at least four or five times a week.”
He then added: “Paris, she is that ride-or-die chick. The woman’s been my wife for 20 years near on. Is she the luckiest lady on Earth? One hundred percent.”
So while the headline-making part of Fury’s confession will obviously be the sheer bluntness of it all, it also feeds into a bigger picture of how he talks about Paris throughout the series.
The Netflix show follows Tyson and Paris at home with their seven children, with the latest run once again offering a closer look at the family dynamic behind the cameras.
In addition, Tyson made it clear that, as far as he is concerned, the family may not even be complete yet.
Speaking about having more children, he said: “We might have another child, number eight. Just to see if I’ve still got it. But I want ten. It was always going to be ten.”
It is a very Tyson Fury way of putting it, but it also fits with how central family life seems to be to the couple.
The pair first met as teenagers and later married in 2008, and although their lives have changed massively since then, Fury suggested the relationship itself still sits at the heart of everything.
He also explained that showing love as a couple mattered to him because it was not something he grew up around.
He said: “My parents weren’t lovey-dovey, they didn’t show their feelings and say they loved each other.
“When I got married, I wanted me and Paris to do things together as a couple because I didn’t have that growing up — not that hope and love.”
Tyson met Paris when she was 15 at a mutual friend's wedding, and they reconnected at Paris' 16th birthday party.
They married when Tyson was 21 and Paris was 19.
Paris told the Irish Mirror: "Even after we got engaged, Tyson would sleep in a caravan at my parents’ home, while I slept inside the house. We didn’t sleep together until after we got married. That is the travellers' way."
Paris has said that while she might stop talking to her husband for 'a day or two' if they've had a falling out, Tyson takes it much further.
She said: "He will hold it for weeks. And he will be like telling the kids, 'tell your mum I need this or I’m going there'. I’m like, ‘I’m in the room, you can see me!'"
Fury decided to retire off the back of two defeats from Oleksandr Usyk, but then unretired for the fifth time to face Arslanbek Makhmudov tomorrow (11 April).
He told the Daily Mail: "My dad stopped speaking to me for a while. My brothers stopped speaking to me, even Paris. Everybody cut me off.
"Nobody wanted me to return and they made that clear… but, it's my decision and my life."