Tyson Fury has moved his family – including wife Paris and their seven children – to the Isle of Man and revealed he feared for their safety in the UK
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Tyson Fury feared he and his family would be attacked if he didn’t move them out of the UK.
Fury made Morecambe his home for almost 20 years after a Christmas training camp became a permanent move. He settled down in the seaside town with teenage wife Paris and the couple raised their seven children by the famous bay. Their sprawling mansion and hectic family life have been the focus of two Netflix shows.
But Fury was spooked when a man scaled his gates while the heavyweight was down the gym. The multi-millionaire has now moved his brood into an £8million, six-bedroom manor on the Isle of Man tax haven. And Fury said: “Sometimes you can be in a place too long and everybody knows where you live.
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“I’ve got an attack dog and everything but the final straw was when a lunatic came over my 40-foot gates. I was at the gym and Paris phoned me going nuts. It was one of our neighbours who saw him climbing over the bins and she phoned the police. He was about 35 and said he was there to be adopted by me and Paris.
“He was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas and said he was here to visit his father and mother. He could have had a knife on him. These people are innocent but when is it going to be one that’s not? When you’re a high-profile person and everybody knows where you live, it’s not good. And he wasn’t the only one; one time there was a guy dressed in seashells from head-to-toe.
“He said God sent him to speak to me but my manager offered him £20 and he grabbed it and vanished. I also had to disconnect my intercom on the gates because it was going off every weekend. I had crackpots parking outside the front and ringing the door bell and asking for me.
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“I looked at moving abroad, but it turned out that the Isle of Man is the a perfect place for me. It’s English-speaking, has English pound notes, and I can get an English newspaper from the local petrol station with my coffee and speak my own lingo.”
Fury returns home tomorrow when he takes on Arslanbek Makhmudov in his first fight for 16 months. The 37-year-old announced the fifth retirement of his career following his rematch defeat by Oleksandr Usyk in 2024. But victory could set up a long-awaited meeting with bitter rival Anthony Joshua – or another world title shot.
“This is my dream job and boxing is hard to let go of; anything you’ve done forever is hard to let go of,” Fury added. “That’s what boxing is to me, it’s natural and an essential part of my day-to-day life. If that’s taken away then I have nothing left, even though I have everything that every man could ever want.
“I dreamed as a child of being the heavyweight world champion and I have lived it. And here we are again, five times out of retirement and the circus continues.”
