Tyson Fury and his wife are at war about their children’s education and whether to give them a traditional Gypsy upbringing, his new documentary reveals.
Paris, 30, and Tyson, 31, met as teenagers and have five children together – three sons called Prince and two daughters – Venezuela and Valencia.
The family’s new documentary shows the couple, who live in Morecambe, Lancashire, arguing over whether they should stay in school beyond the age of 11.
Both Mr and Mrs Fury were brought up with a traditional gypsy lifestyle and didn’t finish their schooling.
But while Mrs Fury says she wants her children to be raised as she did, her husband describes parents who stop their children from going to school as ‘dream killers’.
The heavyweight then exclaims: ‘Do you think you live a traveller’s lifestyle? Because I don’t. I think you live like a footballers’ wife.’
Paris Fury, 30, and her husband Tyson, 31, met as teenagers and have five children together – three sons called Prince and two daughters – Venezuela and Valencia
Tyson Fury is pictured during his fight against Otto Wallin in Las Vegas in September 2019
The Fury family: Tyson and Paris are pictured with their three sons Prince, Prince, Prince, and Prince, daughter Venezuela (right) and Valencia (left)
The family are out for a meal at a pub when the issue of education is brought up.
Mrs Fury explains to the camera: ‘Me and Tyson have talked about the kids going to school. Tyson wants the boys to into education. It’s just not what we’ve ever done.’
But her husband interrupts: ‘Who’s we? You said it’s not something we have ever done. But I am a precedent setter am I not?
‘Now I’ve set these laws and precedents you watch how many will follow. Watch!
‘The parents of these kids I call them dream killers.
‘Because [they say] ‘Oh, you never get anywhere because you’re a traveller or because they don’t want you to do it.’
‘Because something went wrong in their life you can’t pawn off on your kids either.’
But Mrs Fury argues ‘I was brought up like a traveller, I want my kids to be brought up as travellers.
‘The kids will probably leave school at 11 and they will be educated at home from then.
‘The boys will take a wife to make their family and the girls will take a husband to make their family.
‘Until they take a husband or a wife, they won’t really be leaving the home and I wouldn’t want them to leave the home.’
The family’s new documentary shows the couple, who live in Morecambe, Lancashire, arguing over whether their children (daughter Valencia pictured) should stay in school beyond the age of 11
But her daughter Venezuela interjects: ‘You heard what dad has just said, dream cutter.’
Mrs Fury tells the camera her daughter Venezuela wants to be a gymnast and a dancer, but she believes she is ‘too tall’ to succeed.
She then adds: ‘Tyson’s idea is if they had the best of both worlds – the upbringing of a traveller but the education of a non-traveller how powerful can you be.’
But Fury says simply he wants ‘whatever all the kids want to do.’
Before adding: ‘I hate dream killers, you can’t do this, you can’t do this, who is anybody to say you can’t do anything.’
Fury asks his wife: ‘Do you think you live a traveller’s lifestyle? Because I don’t. I think you live like a footballers’ wife.’
Fury faces Deontay Wilder in a highly-anticipated fight against US heavyweight in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Mrs Fury says she ‘feels every punch’ her husband suffers in the ring and has talked openly about his struggles with mental ill health.
She was born to an Irish traveller family in Doncaster and started dating Tyson soon after her 16th birthday, having met at a wedding when they were 15.
She previously said in an interview with the Irish Mirror: ‘I am a traveller, I am a gypsy. I was brought up in caravans when I was a little girl.
‘It’s just the traditional lifestyle; there’s no real definition, there’s no bloodline because we never went to the doctor to say we are who we are.
‘There was no paperwork, there are still gypsies today who can’t read or write; we’re just that old fashioned.’
Tyson Fury: The Gypsy King is aired on Thursdays on ITV.