Tyson Fury wanted to cancel his new Netflix reality series just weeks into filming, his wife Paris has revealed. The heavyweight boxing champion, his wife and their six children are the subjects of At Home With the Furys, which premiered on Wednesday (16 February).
Speaking on Capital XTRA’s Breakfast with Robert Bruce and Shayna Marie, Paris said: “We got halfway through filming, and he wanted to cancel the whole show!” Tyson confirmed: “Yeah, I wanted out; I was like, a couple of weeks in, I said: ‘Is there any way?’ I’d be on the phone with my lawyers, ‘Is there any way I can get out of this, I don’t know what I’ve signed up for again.’”
The boxer attributed his change of heart to his bipolar disorder, diagnosed in 2017. “That’s just my bipolar going up and down all the time,” he said. “One minute I’m happy, the next minute I’m not… I can take 10 turns in an hour.” Fury has previously spoken about his mental health struggles, telling The i in 2021: “Some days I felt like I didn’t want to live anymore but I thought that was normal.”
The series also features Fury’s half-brother Tommy, who expressed ambitions to conquer Hollywood after his boxing career. In a three-star review for The Independent, Rachel McGrath noted: “Fury is used to being the main character in the ring, but a reality show is only as good as the sum of its parts – one eccentric isn’t enough.”
Fury recently came out of retirement to face UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in a boxing match scheduled for 28 October in Saudi Arabia.
