From flash cars and plush mansions, to luxury holidays abroad – multi-millionaire boxing champion Tyson Fury and his family can afford to live a very luxurious lifestyle.

But despite being worth an estimated £130million, the ‘Gyspy King’ and his childhood sweetheart Paris Fury have remained firm in sticking to their Traveller roots.

The happy couple married young, were both brought up in caravans and left education after primary school.

But with Tyson’s rise to fame and fortune as the heavyweight champion of the world, the 35-year-old has used his platform to become an advocate for the Traveller community – and has been championed for his efforts.

And now the Gypsy King and his wife appear determined to pass on their traditional values to their seven children – even if it means they never end up leaving the family home!

Tyson Fury and his childhood sweetheart Paris Fury have remained firm in sticking to their Traveller roots

The happy couple married young, were both brought up in caravans and left education after primary school and appear determined to pass on their traditional values to their seven children

MailOnline has broken down some of the key traditions the Fury’s have brought with them as they rose to the top.

Growing up fighting

Boxing has always been a favourite sport for the traveller community and Tyson has said previously that it is a ‘key element’ of his culture.

Speaking to the BBC in 2014, Tyson revealed: ‘Boxing is a key element of the travelling culture. Before anything else, you learn how to fight.

‘Whereas in other cultures little kids will kick a ball about, we’re punching hands.

‘When we have a dispute, we’re not supposed to go to the police, we’re supposed take our shirts off, go outside and sort it out with fisticuffs.

‘To be a good fighting man is one of the best things you can ever be in life.’

John Fury, left, pictured with his his son Tyson Fury in 2006 before rising to become the two-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world

Former professional boxer John, 59, said his family’s fearsome fighting prowess stemmed from his tough-as-nail mother, Cissy, a ‘natural southpaw’.

Tyson had previously suggested that all of his children would also be brought up boxing as it teaches them ‘respect for life (Pictured training with his father)

Tyson himself comes from a long line of brawlers including his father John Fury.

The former professional boxer, 59, said his family’s fearsome fighting prowess stemmed from his tough-as-nails mother, Cissy, a ‘natural southpaw’.

‘Fighting has always been in our family – it’s our second nature,’ the 6ft 3ins bruiser – who once claimed to have won £100,000 in a bare-knuckle boxing fight – told The Sun.

Tyson had previously suggested that all of his children would also be brought up boxing as it teaches them ‘respect for life.’

Speaking ahead of a 2021 bout with Deontay Wilder, he claimed: ‘They’re all going to box because even if they’re not going to be boxers, it teaches them respect for life.’

Defending  the Traveller community

Tyson Fury has been focal about championing his Traveller heritage and sticking up for the tight-knit community.

During the pandemic, the boxing legend spoke out about racism towards Travellers in a candid video shared on YouTube.

Highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement, Fury said: ‘Every other ethnic group, every other race, are standing up and being counted and Travellers need to do the same.

‘Travellers never stand up for themselves in a way that is political or legal. They get hated on and discriminated against and they don’t say anything because – ‘oh that’s the way its always been’. And now it’s not. It’s time for a change and the change is now.’

World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury led a march through Morecambe to highlight racism against travellers

Fury is proud of his heritage and fights under the nickname ‘Gypsy King’ in the ring

Tyson Fury marches to protest racism against travellers

The boxing star was speaking out during an interview with Kugan Cassius filmed at his home in Morecambe.

Days earlier, Fury had made waves leading a peace protest against 24 pubs, restaurants and garages refusing to service Travellers in the Lancashire town.

‘If I go into a place and I’m acting rude or out of order then I should be banned. You can’t ban an entire race of people,’ says Fury

‘People are still tolerant of racism towards Travellers when they wouldn’t be tolerant of racism towards blacks or Asians or any other race of people. I’ve seen it in America, I’ve seen it all over the world.’

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The ‘Gypsy King’, 34, was hailed a ‘positive role model’ for the young travelling community and is helping to increase their visibility, according to a study.

The Office for National Statistics interviewed members of the Gypsy and Traveller communities in England and Wales to find out about their experiences.

Researchers were told some individuals act and speak differently when among people from settled communities to avoid their true identity from being discovered.

Some also hide their background due to fears of prejudice and being treated like ‘second class citizens’.

While some say they are proud of their traditionally nomadic background, others said they are thought of as ‘scum’ in the wider world, which has led to them trying to avoid talking about their ethnicity – including from their child’s first day at school.

However, the study found that having someone like WBC heavyweight champion Fury is having a positive impact on travellers who feel he is ‘fighting for us’.

One Traveller interviewed in the study, identified only as a man aged 50 to 60, told the ONS: ‘It’s like with Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury is fighting for us. To get our name out there because everybody just thinks we are like scum…’

Charity Friends, Families and Travellers, which represents the UK’s population of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people, said having Fury fighting in their corner was a huge boast.

‘From helping shed light on the discrimination experienced by people from Gypsy and Traveller communities, to positive messages about the importance of looking after your mental health, Tyson Fury is a prime example of why positive representation matters,’ a spokeswoman for the charity told MailOnline.

Tyson met Paris met when she was 15, and they didn’t start dating until after Paris’ 16th birthday

The two tied the knot in 2008 at St. Peter in Chains Catholic Church in Doncaster, South Yorkshire

As practising Catholics, Tyson and Paris didn’t have sex until officially becoming husband and wife

Getting married at an early age

 In true traveller fashion, the Fury couple met and married very young indeed.

Tyson met Paris met when she was 15, and they didn’t start dating until after Paris’ 16th birthday.

The two tied the knot in 2008 at St. Peter in Chains Catholic Church in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

As practising Catholics, Tyson and Paris didn’t have sex until officially becoming husband and wife.

‘Even after we got engaged, Tyson would sleep in a caravan at my parents’ home, while I slept inside the house,’ Paris has previously explained in the past.

In the 15-years they’ve been together the couple have had tremendous highs and lows including Tyson’s desperate three year hiatus from professional boxing.

In that time, Paris, who stayed by her husband’s side while he battled mental health problems, alcohol abuse and obesity says she ‘thought about leaving’ her husband ‘every day.’

She told The Mirror : ‘I wanted to leave every day. Every day I used to cry and break down and think ‘I can’t deal with this.’

‘I literally packed the car and the kids a few times. I’d think ‘how can I leave?’ If you truly love someone you’re not going to leave them to crash and burn.’

As his bleak moods and destructive habits worsened, she felt powerless to help the man she fell in love with.

‘He was drinking excessively for days on end and then he’d come home and in the times he wasn’t drinking he’d be in a dark depression,’ she recalled.

Taking pride in their homes

Boxers may be known for ‘trash talking’ opponents in the ring however in true traveller tradition Tyson and Paris aim to keep their homes spotless.

And Tyson has been known to take it one step further in his quest to keep his home town and £1.7million family mansion clean.

Earlier this year the 6ft 9in boxing superstar gave unsuspecting litterers in Morecambe Bay a fright by blasting them in a prank.

Fury, 35, launched a new range of talking rubbish bins mocked up as his face to tackle the ‘t***ers’ around the country.

He hooked up a microphone to one of his doppleganger bins before using it to jump-scare litterers in Morecambe Bay as he watched on from a studio nearby before emerging to thank them or deliver a telling-off if they failed to pick up their rubbish.

Fury slammed one litter lout, saying: ‘So if you don’t put it in the bin, someone like me has got to pick it up.

‘If we all muck in if we live in this country, and keep it tidy and don’t chuck s*** on the floor, it will be a better place, won’t it?’

Fury unveils the ‘Trash Talking Bin’ to encourage people not to litter chewing gum and gave unsuspecting litterers in Morecambe Bay a fright by telling them off for not picking up their rubbish

The Gypsy King launched his new bins and chewing gum in hilarious fashion

Although a joke, the sentiment behind keeping things tidy is something close to Tyson’s heart as a house-proud Traveller.

Despite being worth an estimated £130million, the Gypsy King regularly films himself taking his own rubbish to the tip.

In April last year, the 35-year-old fighter recorded himself doing the tip run as he returned home from his knockout victory over Dillian Whyte.

He was joined in clearing out the rubbish by American trainer SugarHill Steward, less than two days after they had masterminded a dominant win in the all-British heavyweight clash with Whyte.

Fury said: ‘So, from 95,000 at Wembley, heavyweight championship of the world, to me and Sugar doing the bins. Straight back off the motorway, on our own, getting it done. Tip run for us.’

In a candid clip on his Netflix documentary, At Home With The Furys, Tyson is seen explaining to his eldest son Prince John James, 11, why emptying the bins at his  house was so important to him.

‘Do you reckon if I had half a billion I would still have to do this?’ Fury asks his son as he unloads black sacks from the bin into his truck.

In a candid clip on his Netflix documentary, At Home With The Furys, Tyson is seen emptying bins with his eldest son Prince John James, 11 (pictured)

The millionaire boxing champ is filmed speaking to his son about why he takes pride in emptying his own bins

The father-of-seven insisted that he would ‘never forget where’ he came from before his rise to fame

‘Yeah,’ says Prince. ‘Why?’, asks Fury. ‘You wouldn’t want to pay for it, I know that,’

Fury then asks: ‘How much is it worth to pay someone to do this job for you – about 100 quid a day?

‘Well just think, from me doing all this, I’ve earned £100 and £100 to me is a lot of money, a hell of a lot of money. I remember the days when I didn’t have £100 and I’d have done this all day to the crack of dawn for a one-er.

‘Never lose sight of who you are, Prince. If you can save a one-er, save it.’

Fury later adds: ‘I’m never going to forget where I came from and how hard things are in reality so I’m instilling into my kids that nothing comes free in life and anything that’s any good in life you have to work hard for.’

Later, arriving at the tip to dump off his rubbish, the Gypsy King quips: ‘This is a the half-a-billion dollar man: full of bin juice.’

Paris has always been proud of running her family in the travelling traditions and says that it leads to ‘independence’ insisting that female travellers – who often leave education after primary school – don’t ‘just learn how to cook and clean.’

She told The Sun: ‘I’ve come from a strong line of women, and we didn’t just learn how to cook and clean.

‘My mum taught me how to drive, she taught me how to use the bank, do businesses, get into college.’

Paris explained that as well as assisting her with homework, her mother showed her how to do paperwork and job interviews.

The mum-of-seven said: ‘I think travellers have this stereotype that all the women know is how to clean.

‘I wasn’t just taught how to shine silver or polish dishes, I was taught how to run a home, a business and be a strong, independent woman.’

Having a big family has always been something that is important to the couple and is a key part of traveller tradition

The happy couple welcomed their seventh child in September (pictured)

The couple are already parents to Venezuela, 13, Prince John James, 11, Prince Tyson II, seven, Valencia Amber, five, Prince Adonis Amaziah, four, and Athena, two.

Bringing a huge family along for the ride with them

Paris and Tyson announced that they had welcomed their seventh child together – a baby boy – on September 19 this year.

The couple are already parents to Venezuela, 13, Prince John James, 11, Prince Tyson II, seven, Valencia Amber, five, Prince Adonis Amaziah, four, and Athena, two.

Announcing the birth of her seventh child to OK! Magazine, Paris revealed her son was born at 2.29am weighing 6lb 13oz.

She said: ‘We’re over the moon to have welcomed our baby boy to the Fury family. His brothers and sisters can’t wait to meet him and create lots of Fury fun!

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‘Our boy is the most perfect addition and we’re bursting with love for him. It’s crazy how you can love someone so quick.’

Proud dad Tyson followed the announcement by sharing a sweet photo of the couple with their baby boy standing in front of a sunflower wall in hospital.

Having a big family has always been something that is important to the couple and is a key part of traveller tradition.

In the biography, Love and Fury: The Magic and Mayhem of Life with Tyson, Paris revealed that travellers see it as a duty to look after their husbands and kids above all else.

She said: ‘[We] always intended to carry on the great Traveller tradition and have a big family.

‘Three children at the very least, we’d say to each other, maybe even ten if we were lucky.

‘Sometimes people would ask me why I didn’t employ any hired help – it wasn’t as if we couldn’t afford it – but that just wasn’t the Traveller way.

‘As proud and dedicated wives and mothers, we considered it our duty and our privilege to look after our homes and children ourselves.’

‘You live like a footballer’s wife’: Tyson and Paris argue in a pu

The couple have previously butted heads over schooling plans for their children

Leaving school at an early age

Tyson and Paris were brought up with a traditional gypsy lifestyle, leaving school at 11 without any qualifications and the couple have previously butted heads over whether this is something they want for their seven children.

In a 2020 ITV documentary, the couple were filmed arguing over whether they should stay in school beyond the age of 11.

Paris was seen exclaiming she wanted 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 protested: ‘Do you think you live a traveller’s lifestyle? Because I don’t. I think you live like a footballers’ wife.’

Paris explained 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 interrupted: ‘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 Paris argued ‘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.’

But her daughter Venezuela interjected: ‘You heard what dad has just said, dream cutter.’

In a 2020 documentary, Tyson was seen training with a vintage caravan

Paris previously said in an interview with the Irish Mirror that she loved the ‘traditional’ lifestyle

Growing up in caravans

Both Tyson and Paris are extremely proud of their travelling roots and are fond of the concept of living in caravans.

Their new £1.7million ‘castle’ on the Morecambe coast is ringed in by caravan sites, most of them are short lets occupied by seasonal holiday makers, rather than members of the traveller community.

Paris previously said in an interview with the Irish Mirror that she loved the ‘traditional’ lifestyle.

She said: ‘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.’