Bing a member family brings its own version of ‘normal’ life, and for 16-year-old Venezuela, that means chatting to heat – alongside her mum Paris – about the second series of their Netflix reality show, and what it’s like to live with boxing behemoth Tyson.
As the matriarch of the family, Paris, 36, spends her days doing mammoth shops at Asda for her seven kids, while coping wedding plans, filming with the anxiety of Tyson, 37, retiring from boxing and then un-retiring. But luckily, after amateur boxer Noah Price, 17, popped the question to the Furys’ eldest daughter Venezuela, the family have had the joy of a wedding to focus on.
We were thrilled to be able to grill the mum and daughter about all of the chaos…
You’re going big for the wedding – what’s the most extravagant detail so far?
Venezuela: I’m very excited just to get married. The most extravagant thing is probably my dress!
Paris, you’ve been married for almost 20 years – what advice have you given to Venezuela?
Paris: ‘Start as you mean to go on.’ I keep hearing it, and I’ve said it to her as well. Don’t be false in your relationship. Be you. From the very beginning, be yourself.
Tyson must be a pretty scary father-in-law for any young lad – has he had the chat with Noah yet?
P: I presume they have. I don’t think Tyson is that kind of intense father- in-law – he’d rather be everyone’s mate.
V: He seems intense, but he’s not. My dad would be like, ‘Yeah, you’re getting married!’
P: Tyson is a bit girly that way. He’s a romantic. Tyson probably looks scary, but he really isn’t. I think he’d rather be someone’s mate than be the intimidator.
Venezuela, would you like to have a big family, too?
V: Yes, hopefully, one day, if God blesses me with it, I’d be very happy.
P: Do you want as many kids as I’ve got?
V: I may as well! Once you start, you may as well.
The new series focuses on Tyson’s return to boxing, what do you think it will take for Tyson to actually retire?
V: If one of his legs falls off! If he loses the use of his hands.
P: I don’t think it’s just going to be a choice. I think it’s going to be something severe. I hope the penny drops and he thinks, ‘You know what? It’s time to give up the gloves now.’ But I don’t know when that will be.
Paris, how terrified are you about watching your sons follow in Tyson’s footsteps?
P: I don’t like the idea of it, but I wouldn’t try to stop them. I know I’ll probably be worse watching them than watching their dad. I hate seeing him get hit. So for that to be your child – I think I’m going to be one of those mums hanging through the ropes, screaming and shouting. I’ll try to be graceful and supportive, but it will be hard.
You can’t escape it – Noah boxes, too!
P: I can’t escape it. She can’t escape it. It just keeps coming back to us.
Venezuela, you sometimes struggle with being in the spotlight – has the show helped you come out of your shell?
V: I think it’s just living with it now. You can’t escape what you are.
P: She keeps telling me she’s going to be the Rob Kardashian of the family.
V: I’m just going to get married and disappear.
You switch from private jets to Tyson buzzing over an Asda meal deal – how do you balance the luxury with normal life?
P: I know at points in our lives we’re not normal – definitely beyond that – but I’ve got seven children, and I need to raise them in a normal environment. I don’t want them living out in the stars, I want them grounded. We’ve kept to our roots. People come up to us in the supermarket and say, ‘What are you doing in Asda?’ And I’m like, ‘I shop in Asda. Where else am I going to get my shopping? I don’t go to Harrods.’
