Tyson Fury, the sometime heavyweight champion of the world, boasts one the most peculiar trajectories in British celebrity, segueing from Channel 5 prizefighter, to bigoted PR disaster, to national treasure status in just over a decade. While Fury is still undefeated in the ring, and still one of the biggest draws in boxing, he has become a thoroughly domestic figure – someone who brings together stardust and menace, panto and punch-up in the way only England can. He’s the missing link between Charles Bronson and Robbie Williams, Lenny McLean and Peter Kay.
His family, too, are carving out a name for themselves in show business. Paris, Tyson’s wife and mother to Prince John, Prince Tyson, Prince Adonis, Venezuela, Valencia and Athena, is a media figure in her own right, appearing regularly on Loose Women and writing a number of books. His father, John, has become an unlikely star of Gen Z media, the object of a thousand TikTok compilations, thanks to his chest-thumping, olde worlde hyperbole when selling his son’s fights. His younger brother Tommy and Tommy’s fiancée Molly-Mae Hague (of Love Island fame) are marketing themselves as a Kardashian-style power couple, with her working as creative director at the fast fashion brand Pretty Little Thing and him becoming an influencer/boxer and purveyor of “paid partnerships”.
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